Effects of intra-amniotic lipopolysaccharide and maternal betamethasone on brain inflammation in fetal sheep

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Kuypers, Elke ^a   Jellema, Reint K ^a   Ophelders, Daan R M G ^a   Dudink, Jeroen ^b   Nikiforou, Maria ^a   Wolfs, Tim G A M ^a   Nitsos, Ilias ^c,d   Pillow, J Jane ^e   Polglase, Graeme R ^c,d   Kemp, Matthew W ^c   Saito, Masatoshi ^c   Newnham, John P ^c   Jobe, Alan H ^c,f   Kallapur, Suhas G ^c,f   Kramer, Boris W ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROGLIA; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; SHEEP; SYNAPSE VESICLE; WHITE MATTER;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 84893007338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081644     Document Type: Article

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