Repeated courses of antenatal corticosteroids have adverse effects on aspects of brain development in naturally delivered baboon infants

Pediatric Research

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 661-667

  Shields, Amy ^a   Thomson, Merran ^b   Winter, Vicki ^c   Coalson, Jacqueline ^c   Rees, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; BRAIN PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN IBA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BABOON; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DELIVERY; DENSITY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GESTATION PERIOD; GLIOSIS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MYELINATION; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PAPIO; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84861375129     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2012.18     Document Type: Article

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