Antenatal allopurinol reduces hippocampal brain damage after acute birth asphyxia in late gestation fetal sheep

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 251-259

  Kaandorp, Joepe J ^a   Derks, Jan B ^a   Oudijk, Martijn A ^a   Torrance, Helen L ^a   Harmsen, Marline G ^a   Nikkels, Peter G J ^a   Bel, Frank Van ^a   Visser, Gerard H A ^a   Giussani, Dino A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allopurinol; asphyxia; fetus; neuroprotection; sheep

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; OXIPURINOL; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL SHEEP; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MATERNAL TREATMENT; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

ALLOPURINOL; ASPHYXIA; FETUS; NEUROPROTECTION; SHEEP;

ALLOPURINOL; ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SHEEP;

EID: 84894103148     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719113493516     Document Type: Article

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