The impact of chronic intrauterine inflammation on the physiologic and neurodevelopmental consequences of intermittent umbilical cord occlusion in fetal sheep

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 658-670

  Nitsos, Ilias ^a,c   Newnham, John P ^a   Rees, Sandra M ^b   Harding, Richard ^c   Moss, Timothy J M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

birth asphyxia; cerebral palsy; chorioamnionitis; fetal inflammatory response; sheep

Indexed keywords

2',3' CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE 3' PHOSPHODIESTERASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LECTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN INJURY; CELL COUNT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHRONIC INTRAUTERINE INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL SHEEP; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METRITIS; MICROGLIA; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHAM PROCEDURE; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; UMBILICAL CORD OBSTRUCTION; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; INFLAMMATION; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84899006023     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111399928     Document Type: Article

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