Levetiracetam increases neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury under normothermic, but not hypothermic conditions

Brain Research

Volumn 1556, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-18

  Griesmaier, Elke ^a   Stock, Katharina ^a   Medek, Katharina ^a,b   Stanika, Ruslan I ^a   Obermair, Gerald J ^a   Posod, Anna ^a   Wegleiter, Karina ^a   Urbanek, Martina ^a   Kiechl Kohlendorfer, Ursula ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain; Hypothermia; Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; Levetiracetam; Neurotoxic; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; GLUCOSE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEONATAL HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC BRAIN INJURY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

BRAIN; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC BRAIN INJURY; LEVETIRACETAM; NEUROTOXIC; NEWBORN;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CASPASE 3; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MICE; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PIRACETAM;

EID: 84895922493     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.01.034     Document Type: Article

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