Connexin hemichannel blockade is neuroprotective after asphyxia in preterm fetal sheep

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Davidson, Joanne O ^a   Drury, Paul P ^a   Green, Colin R ^a   Nicholson, Louise F ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Gunn, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUTAMEN; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; COMPLICATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA; CONNEXINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SHEEP;

EID: 84901476872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096558     Document Type: Article

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