Mechanisms of melatonin-induced protection in the brain of late gestation fetal sheep in response to hypoxia

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 543-551

  Yawno, Tamara ^a   Castillo Melendez, Margie ^a   Jenkin, Graham ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^a   Walker, David W ^a   Miller, Suzanne L ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetal brain; Melatonin; Neuroprotection; Sheep; Umbilical cord occlusion

Indexed keywords

LIPID; MELATONIN; SILASTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN PROTECTION; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELATONIN; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 84874006827     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346323     Document Type: Article

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