VEGF expression and microvascular responses to severe transient hypoxia in the fetal sheep brain

Pediatric Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 310-316

  Baburamani, Ana A ^a   Castillo Melendez, Margie ^a   Walker, David W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; SERUM ALBUMIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; UMBILICAL CORD; UPREGULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEART RATE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LIGATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SERUM ALBUMIN; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84874035690     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2012.191     Document Type: Article

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