New autopsy findings in different brain regions of a preterm neonate with kernicterus: Neurovascular alterations and up-regulation of efflux transporters

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 431-438

  Brito, Maria A ^a   Pereira, Pedro ^b,c   Barroso, Cândida ^b,c   Aronica, Eleonora ^d   Brites, Dora ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

albumin; blood brain barrier; corpus striatum; efflux transporters; hippocampus; kernicterus; microvascularization; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; INFANT; KERNICTERUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PONS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE; UPREGULATION;

ALBUMIN; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CORPUS STRIATUM; EFFLUX TRANSPORTERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KERNICTERUS; MICROVASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ALBUMINS; ANTIGENS, CD34; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CLAUDIN-5; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFANT; KERNICTERUS; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PREMATURE BIRTH; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84888288629     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.08.020     Document Type: Article

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