Developmental alterations of the respiratory human retrotrapezoid nucleus in sudden unexplained fetal and infant death

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 12-19

  Lavezzi, Anna M ^a   Weese Mayer, Debra E ^b   Yu, Margaret Y ^b   Jennings, Lawrence J ^b   Corna, Melissa F ^a   Casale, Valentina ^a   Oneda, Roberta ^a   Matturri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome; Human retrotrapezoid nucleus; PHOX2B; SIDS; SIUD

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CENTRAL HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PAIRED LIKE HOMEOBOX 2B GENE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOVENTILATION; INFANT; MALE; NEURONS; SLEEP APNEA, CENTRAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84865758477     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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