Protective effects of pentoxifylline on lipopolysaccharide-induced white matter injury in a rat model of periventricular leukomalasia

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1865-1871

  Dilek, Mustafa ^a   Kumral, Abdullah ^a   Okyay, Emre ^b   Ozbal, Seda ^a   Tugyan, Kazim ^a   Tuzun, Funda ^a   Sever, Ali Haydar ^a   Yilmaz, Osman ^a   Duman, Nuray ^a   Ozkan, Hasan ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytokines; Maternal; Myelin; Newborn

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; LEUKOMALACIA; MOTHER; MYELINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CYTOPROTECTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84884677183     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2013.798290     Document Type: Article

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