Sex differences in behavioral outcome following neonatal hypoxia ischemia: Insights from a clinical meta-analysis and a rodent model of induced hypoxic ischemic injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 256, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-73

  Cohen, Susan S ^a,b   Stonestreet, Barbara S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; NICOTINE; STEROID;

ACIDEMIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIRTH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MATURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84899056512     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.03.018     Document Type: Note

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