In vitro study of the incorporation and transport of nonesterified fatty acids into the phospholipids of the red blood cell membranes of cystic fibrosis patients.

abstract：:Progress has been made in the reduction of morbidity and mortality from neonatal sepsis. However, diagnosis continues to rely primarily on conventional microbiologic techniques, which can be inaccurate. The objective of this review is to provide the clinician with an overview of the current information available on di...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Iroh Tam PY,Bendel CM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) and its precursor peptide pGlu-His-Pro-Gly (TRH-Gly) were measured in serum and in a variety of tissues of developing rats using specific RIA. TRH and TRH-Gly immunoreactivities were detected in most tissues. TRH concentrations were highest in pancreas, in which mean (+/- SEM) TRH c...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fuse Y,Polk DH,Lam RW,Fisher DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroprotective effect of hypothermia instituted after resuscitation from asphyxic cardiac arrest has not been studied in immature brain, particularly in a large animal model with recovery periods greater than 4 d. Moreover, protection from severe hypoxia seen with 3 h of hypothermia was reported to be lost when h...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Agnew DM,Koehler RC,Guerguerian AM,Shaffner DH,Traystman RJ,Martin LJ,Ichord RN

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnane steroids have sedative and neuroprotective effects on the brain, due to interactions with the steroid-binding site of the GABAA receptor. In the adult brain, synthesis of the pregnane steroids is increased in response to stress. Therefore, we have used umbilicoplacental embolization to mimic chronic placental...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nguyen PN,Billiards SS,Walker DW,Hirst JJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-year-old Israeli Arab boy was found to have glycogen accumulation in both liver and muscle without clinical symptoms. Liver phosphorylase kinase (PK) activity was 20% of normal, resulting in undetectable activity of phosphorylase a. Muscle PK activity was about 25% of normal, resulting in a marked decrease of p...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Bashan N,Iancu TC,Lerner A,Fraser D,Potashnik R,Moses SW

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：:Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revealed white matter changes in patients with phenylketonuria (PKU), an inborn error of metabolism with increased plasma phenylalanine level. Because the significance of these lesions is unknown, this study was undertaken to determine whether glucose metabolism was depres...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hasselbalch S,Knudsen GM,Toft PB,Høgh P,Tedeschi E,Holm S,Videbaek C,Henriksen O,Lou HC,Paulson OB

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand the increased susceptibility of preterm neonates to infection. METHODS:A murine listeriosis model using immunohistochemistry, microarray technology, and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). RESULTS:We report that recombinant serum amyloid A (SAA) administered prophylactically 18 h befor...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hawkins JS,Wu Q,Wang Y,Lu CY

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that myocardial function changes during mammalian perinatal development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the subcellular basis underlying the slower relaxation in the developing heart by examining perinatal changes in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function, and in SR Ca2+ pum...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fisher DJ,Tate CA,Phillips S

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subgaleal hemorrhage (SGH) is reported to be associated with severe hemodynamic instability, coagulopathy, and even mortality. The importance of the presence or absence of neonatal encephalopathy in predicting SGH outcomes has not been explored. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of clin...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： El-Dib M,Parziale MP,Johnson L,Benson CB,Grant PE,Robinson J,Volpe JJ,Inder T

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:To study the normal development of blood coagulation factor activities in a growing fetus while avoiding the effects of labor and delivery, a chronic fetal lamb model was developed in which serial blood samples from 10 fetuses were studied during the third trimester of pregnancy and 24 hr after birth. Under operating ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kisker CT,Robillard JE,Clarke WR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the functional maturity of the lungs of infants with pulmonary hypoplasia, we measured the expression of surfactant apoprotein-A (SP-A) in the autopsied lungs. Autopsied lungs were taken from 16 infants who died at birth or soon after. A lung-to-body weight ratio of less than 1.2% was defined as pulmona...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Minowa H,Takahashi Y,Kawaguchi C,Sadou T,Konishi N,Nishikubo T,Yoshioka A

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study using fractional clearances during orally induced water diuresis was designed to delineate the mechanism underlying defective tubular reabsorption of sodium in very low-birth-weight neonates. The use of clearance methodology during maximal water diuresis may give an indirect estimate of distal sodium delivery ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rodríguez-Soriano J,Vallo A,Oliveros R,Castillo G

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and ovine placental tissue homogenates were assayed for dipeptidase activity in vitro. Glycyl-L-leucine, L-leucyl glycine, glycyl-L-lysine, and L-lysyl glycine were hydrolyzed by placental homogenates. The pH optimum for the reaction was 8.0. The relationship between enzyme activity and concentration was linear ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Crandell SS,Adcock EW 3rd,Morriss FH Jr

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliated, mucus-secreting urn cell complex (UCC) is found swimming in the coelomic cavity of the marine invertebrate Sipunculus nudus. This cell complex, which can be maintained in suspension cultures, responds to various stimuli by hypersecreting mucus in the form of a cohesive mucus "tail." This tail can be meas...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kurlandsky LE,Berninger RW,Talamo RC

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal disease of premature infants. Maternal milk has been suggested to be partially protective against NEC; however, the mechanisms of this protection are not defined. The aim of this study was to examine the effect(s) of artificial feeding of rat milk (RM)-versus...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Dvorak B,Halpern MD,Holubec H,Dvorakova K,Dominguez JA,Williams CS,Meza YG,Kozakova H,McCuskey RS

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Very early preterm infants (VPIs) are exposed to unpredictable noise in neonatal intensive care units. Their ability to perceive moderate acoustic environmental changes has not been fully investigated. RESULTS:Physiological values of the 598 isolated sound peaks (SPs) that were 5-10 and 10-15 dB slow-resp...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kuhn P,Zores C,Pebayle T,Hoeft A,Langlet C,Escande B,Astruc D,Dufour A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyritinol-HCl was tested for its impact on the cognitive functions of children with learning disabilities. This study is a contribution to scientific discussion on the complicated methodologic problems in evaluating the clinical efficacy of psychopharmacologic agents. Sixty-seven pupils of slow learner classes between...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wälti U,Kuenzler M,Schild J,Vassella F,Pavlincova E,Bircher J,Herschkowitz N

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The head sizes of 38 patients, growth hormone (GH) deficient following craniospinal (n = 26) or cranial irradiation (n = 12), have been assessed before (n = 38) and on completion of GH therapy (n = 15) or at the end of a similar period of observation without GH (n = 7). These results were compared to the change in hea...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Clayton PE,Shalet SM,Price DA,Surtees RA,Pearson D

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Cell-mediated immunity is not well characterized in very low birth weight infants, and abnormalities may represent a significant vulnerability to infection. This report describes 165 serial studies in 58 infants between 700 and 1300 g birth weight during the first 8 wk of life. Two ml of blood were drawn at 2-wk inter...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Bussel JB,Cunningham-Rundles S,LaGamma EF,Shellabarger M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) results from vasoconstriction and/or vascular remodeling, which can be regulated by mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). MAPKs are deactivated by dual-specificity phosphatases (DUSPs). We hypothesized that single-nucleotide p...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chen LL,Zmuda EJ,Talavera MM,Frick J,Brock GN,Liu Y,Klebanoff MA,Trittmann JK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute postasphyxial encephalopathy around the time of birth remains a major cause of death and disability. The possibility that hypothermia may be able to prevent or lessen asphyxial brain injury is a "dream revisited". In this review, a historical perspective is provided from the first reported use of therapeutic hyp...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gunn AJ,Laptook AR,Robertson NJ,Barks JD,Thoresen M,Wassink G,Bennet L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexamethasone (Dex) and triiodothyronine (T3) were administered to pregnant rats during late gestation to evaluate potential developmental effects on fetal lung vitamin K-dependent carboxylation. Maternal rats were injected on the 2 d before study with Dex (0.2 mg/kg intraperitoneally), with T3 (0.7, 3.5, or 7 mg/kg i...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gallaher KJ,Rannels DE,Rannels SR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that enterally administered heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) produced in Escherichia coli decreases the incidence and severity of intestinal injury in a neonatal rat model of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). In preparation for upcoming human clinical trials, large-scale p...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Radulescu A,Zorko NA,Yu X,Besner GE

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm infants have a greater risk of necrotizing enterocolitis following transfusion. It is hypothesized that high glucose concentrations in red blood cell (RBC) preservatives lead to increased methylglyoxal (MG) metabolism, causing glycation-driven damage to transfused RBCs. Such changes to the RBCs could...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kiefer AS,Fleming T,Eckert GJ,Poindexter BB,Nawroth PP,Yoder MC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants of surfactant protein B (SP-B) have been associated with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in the prematurely born infant. We wished to determine linkage between RDS and SP-B single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) [-18 (A/C), 1013 (A/C), 1580 (C/T), and 9306 (A/G)] or SP-B-linked microsatellite [(D2...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Floros J,Thomas NJ,Liu W,Papagaroufalis C,Xanthou M,Pereira S,Fan R,Guo X,Diangelo S,Pavlovic J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common type of congenital heart disease (CHD) and has a proposed genetic etiology. BAV is categorized by cusp fusion, with right-left (R-L) cusp fusion being associated with additional CHD, and right-noncoronary cusp (R-NC) fusion being associated with aortic valve dys...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Bonachea EM,Chang SW,Zender G,LaHaye S,Fitzgerald-Butt S,McBride KL,Garg V

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium falciparum. With >575,000 cases annually, children in sub-Saharan Africa are the most affected. Surviving patients have an increased risk of neurological and cognitive deficits, behavioral difficulties, and epilepsy making cereb...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Idro R,Marsh K,John CC,Newton CR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00