The relation of severe malnutrition in infancy to the intelligence of school children with differing life histories.

abstract：:Sildenafil (Viagra) has been shown to be an effective pulmonary vasodilator and is increasingly used in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Its effects on the cerebral circulation are unclear and have not yet been described. We investigated the effect of i.v. sildenafil treatment on cerebral oxygenation in 13 childr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nagdyman N,Fleck T,Bitterling B,Ewert P,Abdul-Khaliq H,Stiller B,Hübler M,Lange PE,Berger F,Schulze-Neick I

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that glucocorticoids accelerate lung development by limiting alveolar formation resulting from a premature maturation of the alveolar septa. Based on these data, the aim of the present work was to analyze the influence of dexamethasone on cell cycle control mechanisms during postnatal lung developmen...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Corroyer S,Schittny JC,Djonov V,Burri PH,Clement A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study cardiovascular autonomic control, we assessed the effect of atropine on heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) variability in 12 preterm infants (range 26-32 wk) before intubation for respiratory insufficiency. Spectral power analysis of R-R interval and systolic BP (SBP) series were estimated in a low-frequ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Andriessen P,Janssen BJ,Berendsen RC,Oetomo SB,Wijn PF,Blanco CE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Coulter LH780 hematology analyzer can evaluate mean neutrophil volume (MNV), conductivity (MNC), scatter (MNS), and distribution width (DW). We sought to investigate the value of volume, conductivity, and scatter (VCS) parameters in diagnosis and treatment efficacy of neonatal sepsis. RESULTS:We obser...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Celik IH,Demirel G,Aksoy HT,Erdeve O,Tuncer E,Biyikli Z,Dilmen U

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of our study was to understand the relationship between consanguineous marriages and reproductive outcomes. METHODS:A total of 999 families were recruited from five Muslim populations of Jammu region. Family pedigrees were drawn to access the family history and inbreeding status in terms of coeffici...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fareed M,Kaisar Ahmad M,Azeem Anwar M,Afzal M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uterus is unique among smooth muscular organs in that, during pregnancy, it undergoes profound, largely reversible, changes orchestrated by the ovarian hormones. These changes facilitate uterine adaptation to the stretch induced by the growing fetus such that a state of myometrial contractile quiescence can be mai...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Riemer RK,Heymann MA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult human airway smooth muscle (ASM) produce cytokines involved in recruitment and survival of leukocytes within airway walls. Cytokine generation by adult ASM is glucocorticoid-sensitive. Whether developing lung ASM produces cytokines in a glucocorticoid-sensitive fashion is unknown. METHODS:Cultured fet...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pearson H,Britt RD Jr,Pabelick CM,Prakash YS,Amrani Y,Pandya HC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mononuclear cells of newborn infants compared to those of normal adults contain diminished activity of pyruvate kinase (PK) (14.9 +/- 1.2 vs. 22.3 +/- 1.3 mumol/10(10) cells/min) and phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) (195 +/- 10 vs. 415 +/- 19). These deficiencies are accentuated in the cells of premature infants (4.9...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Das M,Klein W,Feig SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the physiology of urinary epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the mouse by studying its ontogeny, and the effects of testosterone therapy on immunoreactive EGF (IR-EGF) concentrations in urine, kidney, serum and submandibular gland (SMG). Urine IR-EGF (U-EGF) increased about 100-fold relative to urea con...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Perheentupa J,Lakshmanan J,Fisher DA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that nitric oxide (NO) production by the fetal ductus arteriosus is limited because of low fetal PO2, but that at neonatal PO2, NO might be an important regulator of ductus arteriosus tone. We exposed isolated rings of fetal lamb ductus arteriosus to elevated PO2. L-NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Clyman RI,Waleh N,Black SM,Riemer RK,Mauray F,Chen YQ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postnatal growth restriction (PNGR) in premature infants increases risk of pulmonary hypertension (PH). In a rodent model, PNGR causes PH, while combining PNGR and hyperoxia increases PH severity. We hypothesized that PNGR causes intestinal dysbiosis and that treatment with a probiotic attenuates PNGR-associ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wedgwood S,Warford C,Agvatisiri SR,Thai PN,Chiamvimonvat N,Kalanetra KM,Lakshminrusimha S,Steinhorn RH,Mills DA,Underwood MA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual evoked potential (VEP) of five healthy, near-term exteriorized fetal lambs was compared with the VEP obtained from the same animals during the first hour after ventilation. Characteristics of the individual wave components and their relationship to blood pressure, heart rate, and arterial blood gas measurem...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Woods JR Jr,Coppes V,Brooks DE,Knowles PJ,Freeman M,Parisi V,Omara P,McCarty GE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branching morphogenesis, defined as growth and branching of epithelial tubules during embryogenesis, is a fundamental feature of renal, lung, mammary gland, submandibular gland, and pancreatic morphogenesis in mammals. Disruption of branching morphogenesis has been demonstrated to result in maldevelopment of some of t...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hu MC,Rosenblum ND

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundPost-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD) is predictive of mortality and morbidity among very-low-birth-weight preterm infants. Impaired cerebral blood flow (CBF) due to elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is believed to be a contributing factor.MethodsA hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： McLachlan PJ,Kishimoto J,Diop M,Milej D,Lee DSC,de Ribaupierre S,St Lawrence K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSC) are recently proposed to be the cancer initiating cells responsible for tumorigenesis and contribute to cancer resistance. Advances have been made in identifying and enriching CSC in leukemia and several solid tumors, including breast, brain and lung cancers. These studies suggest that, like no...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Guo W,Lasky JL 3rd,Wu H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which dexamethasone (DEX) inhibits neutrophil (PMN) recruitment to a site of inflammation, such as the newborn lung with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, is not completely understood. The aim of our study was to determine whether DEX inhibits neutrophil-induced neutrophil recruitment by inhibition of inter...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zentay Z,Sharaf M,Qadir M,Drafta D,Davidson D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in adult animal and human subjects have suggested that the methylxanthine drugs can delay the onset or attenuate the severity of diaphragmatic fatigue. We have investigated the effect of aminophylline and caffeine on the pressure-generating capacity of the fatigued diaphragm in 1-mo-old piglets. Measurements o...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mayock DE,Standaert TA,Woodrum DE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the transition at birth to air breathing, regulation of surfactant release from alveolar type II (ATII) cells is critical. Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) stimulates natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPR-A) and increases intracellular cGMP. We examined the changes in ANP and NPR-A in respiratory epithelium durin...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： D'Angelis CA,Holm BA,Lakshminrusimha S,Nickerson PA,Swartz DD,Sokolowski J,Nielsen LC,Ryan RM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrahepatic and intracerebral metabolic responses to neonatal fasting or enteric carbohydrate alimentation were investigated among newborn dogs. Pups were either fasted or given an intravenous glucose infusion (alimented) before an enteric feeding of physiologic quantities of either glucose or galactose. These pups w...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kliegman RM,Miettinen EL,Morton SK

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical emollient therapy may reduce the incidence of serious infections and mortality of preterm infants in developing countries. We tested whether emollient therapy reduced the burden of pathogens on skin and/or prevented bacterial translocation. Neonates <33 wk gestational age were randomized to treatment with sunf...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Darmstadt GL,Saha SK,Ahmed AS,Choi Y,Chowdhury MA,Islam M,Law PA,Ahmed S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), acting through its C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR-2), has important roles in inflammation, angiogenesis, and wound repair. The individual and combined effects of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) and hyperoxia on lung MCP-1 and CCR-2 in relation to lung leukocyte dynamics are unknown...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ekekezie II,Thibeault DW,Garola RE,Truog WE

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may have dual effects on brain damage induced by hypoxia-ischemia (HI) in 7-d-old rats, depending on the exposure paradigm. Although a 4-h interval between LPS administration and HI results in sensitization to HI brain injury, tolerance is observed w...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ikeda T,Yang L,Ikenoue T,Mallard C,Hagberg H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of alpha-adrenergic blockade by phentolamine on the pulmonary vascular response to dopamine was studied in chronically prepared newborn lambs. Dopamine was administered at doses of 2.7 micrograms . kg-1 . min-1, 27 micrograms . kg-1 . min-1 and 270 micrograms . kg-1 . min-1 with and without alpha-adrenergic...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Williams BJ,Drummond WH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3H/HeJ mice develop an increase in terminal air space area detectable by postnatal d 14 that persists into adulthood compared with strain-matched controls (C3H/SnJ, C3H/OuJ). Morphometric quantification revealed a 50% increase in terminal air space area by postnatal d 14 and a 2.3-fold increase by 2 mo of age in C3H/...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sampath V,Davis K,Senft AP,Richardson TR,Kitzmiller JA,Berclaz PY,Korfhagen TR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare form of thyroid dysgenesis of which some familial cases have been reported, including one associated with a heterozygous mutation in the Pax8 gene. However, the physiopathology remains not well known. The objectives of this study were 1) to describe the clinical features, 2) to look for ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Castanet M,Leenhardt L,Léger J,Simon-Carré A,Lyonnet S,Pelet A,Czernichow P,Polak M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uteroplacental insufficiency increases the risk of perinatal and long-term neurologic morbidity by depriving the fetus of oxidative substrate and causing intrauterine growth retardation. Skeletal muscle and liver from growth retarded fetal and juvenile rats respond to this deprivation by altering mitochondrial gene ex...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lane RH,Tsirka AE,Gruetzmacher EM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 20% of pregnant women smoke and there is indirect evidence that certain tobacco-specific metabolites can cross the placental barrier and are genotoxic to the fetus. The presence of micronuclei results from chromosome damage and reflects the degree of underlying genetic instability. Fetal blood was obtained from ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zalacain M,Sierrasesumaga L,Larrañnaga C,Patiñno-García A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactose metabolism was studied in human ovarian tissue obtained from 14 women controls between 21 and 72 y of age, and one 21-y-old galactosemic patient with hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism. Tissue slices were incubated with 1-14C-galactose, and labeled intermediates were analyzed by anion-exchange column chromatogr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Xu YK,Ng WG,Kaufman FR,Lobo RA,Donnell GN

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1964, H. K. A. Visser and W. S. Cost were the first to suggest a defect of the terminal aldosterone (Aldo) biosynthesis in patients with hypoaldosteronism. In the last years, the molecular basis of the terminal Aldo biosynthesis has been elucidated. Aldo biosynthesis requires 11beta-hydroxylation of 11-deoxycortico...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Peter M,Sippell WG

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid that is highly concentrated in CNS tissues. Although breast milk contains the fatty acids DHA and arachidonic acid, infant formulas marketed in North America do not contain these nutrients. The potential deleterious effects of rearing infants with formulas devoid of ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Champoux M,Hibbeln JR,Shannon C,Majchrzak S,Suomi SJ,Salem N Jr,Higley JD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00