Subclinical exposure to low-dose endotoxin impairs EEG maturation in preterm fetal sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 270-278

  Keogh, Michael J ^a,b   Bennet, Laura ^a   Drury, Paul P ^a   Booth, Lindsea C ^a,c   Mathai, Sam ^a   Naylor, Andrew S ^a   Fraser, Mhoyra ^a,d   Gunn, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Cytokines; Microglia; Periventricular white matter; Subplate neurons

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; DELTA RHYTHM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; FETUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROGLIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84865623639     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00216.2012     Document Type: Article

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