Bilirubin interactions with phospholipid components of lung surfactant.

abstract：:Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains among the most common and devastating diseases in neonates. Despite advances in neonatal clinical care, specific treatment strategies and diagnostic modalities remain lacking. As a result, morbidity and mortality remain high. Improved understanding of the pathogenesis of NEC has...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shelby RD,Raab R,Besner GE,McElroy SJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in adults have shown that chronic pulmonary hypertension is associated with decreased endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) expression in pulmonary arteries. However, the role of decreased eNOS expression in persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is unknown. We investigated the hyp...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Villanueva ME,Zaher FM,Svinarich DM,Konduri GG

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate relationships between infant body composition (BC) and human milk (HM) immunomodulatory proteins (IMPs) during the first 12 months of lactation. METHODS:BC of breastfeeding dyads (n = 20) was measured with ultrasound skinfolds (infants) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (infants/mothers) at 2, 5,...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gridneva Z,Lai CT,Rea A,Tie WJ,Ward LC,Murray K,Hartmann PE,Geddes DT

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylmalonic aciduria is a common biochemical finding in patients with inborn errors of short chain fatty acid beta-oxidation. The urinary excretion of ethylmalonic acid (EMA) may stem from decreased oxidation by short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) of butyryl-CoA, which is alternatively metabolized by propionyl-...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Corydon MJ,Gregersen N,Lehnert W,Ribes A,Rinaldo P,Kmoch S,Christensen E,Kristensen TJ,Andresen BS,Bross P,Winter V,Martinez G,Neve S,Jensen TG,Bolund L,Kølvraa S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ transients were examined in embryonic chick hearts with an experimentally induced cardiac neural crest-related outflow tract defect known as persistent truncus arteriosus (PTA). In all of the animal models of neural crest-related heart defects, prenatal mortality is too high to be attributed to structural defects...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Creazzo TL,Brotto MA,Burch J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preterm infants, low levels of insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) have been associated with impaired growth and retinopathy of prematurity. Our objective was to study safety and pharmacokinetics of i.v. administered rhIGF-I with its binding protein 3 (rhIGFBP-3) to preterm infants. At 3 d chronological age, an i....

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Löfqvist C,Niklasson A,Engström E,Friberg LE,Camacho-Hübner C,Ley D,Borg J,Smith LE,Hellström A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hypoxia-ischemia (HI) on IL-1, and IL-6 bioactivity in relation to expression of IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta, and IL-6 mRNA was studied, and the neuroprotective efficacy of IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) was evaluated in neonatal rats. HI was induced in 7-d-old rats by unilateral carotid artery ligation and...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hagberg H,Gilland E,Bona E,Hanson LA,Hahin-Zoric M,Blennow M,Holst M,McRae A,Söder O

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood body mass index (BMI) trajectory classes are rarely linked to early puberty risk, particularly among Chinese children. We estimated early puberty risk across BMI trajectory classes, investigated factors contributing to pubertal development, and examined differences in final adult height between chi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fan HY,Lee YL,Hsieh RH,Yang C,Chen YC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac malformations (pulmonary trunk stenosis, ventricular septal defect, and double outlet right ventricle) were induced by the administration of two doses of retinoic acid (RA) to Wistar rats on d 13 of pregnancy. Contractile performance of the isolated perfused rat heart and its inotropic response to Ca2+ (0.6-10...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ostádalová I,Pexieder T,Ostádal B,Kolár F

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar injury has been increasingly recognized as a complication of preterm birth, with decreased cerebellar volumes seen on follow-up neuroimaging. A cohort of 38 preterm newborns, including 14 with two scans, was studied with MRI, including single-shot fast spin-echo diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) sequence speci...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Tam EW,Ferriero DM,Xu D,Berman JI,Vigneron DB,Barkovich AJ,Miller SP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human infants and newborn rats, white light at the intensity used to treat hyperbilirubinemia lowers serum calcium concentration. Occipital shielding or (in newborn rats) exogenous melatonin prevents this effect. Propranolol, by inhibiting melatonin synthesis, also causes hypocalcemia, which is preventable by melat...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hakanson DO,Bergstrom WH

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA segments that are separated from the promoter region of a gene by many thousands of bases may nonetheless regulate the transcriptional activity of that gene. This finding has led to the investigation of mechanisms underlying long-range chromatin interactions. In intermitotic cells, chromosomes decondense, filling ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ling JQ,Hoffman AR

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the effect of galanin (Gal), a newly identified hypothalamic peptide, on growth hormone (GH) secretion in 10 children with normal stature (NS), nine with constitutional growth delay (CGD), and five with isolated GH deficiency (IGHD). Gal was infused intravenously at a rate of 8 or 15 micrograms/kg/h....

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Loche S,Cella SG,Puggioni R,Stabilini L,Pintor C,Müller EE

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature infants are at risk for bilirubin-associated brain damage. In cell cultures bilirubin causes neuronal apoptosis and necrosis. Ibuprofen is used to close the ductus arteriosus, and is often given when hyperbilirubinemia is at its maximum. Ibuprofen is known to interfere with bilirubin-albumin binding. We hypo...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Berns M,Toennessen M,Koehne P,Altmann R,Obladen M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing numbers of preterm-born children survive nowadays, and improving long-term health and neurodevelopment is becoming more important. Early-life growth has been linked to neurodevelopmental outcomes. We aimed to study whether this association has changed with time. METHODS:We studied two cohorts of ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ruys CA,Hollanders JJ,Bröring T,van Schie PEM,van der Pal SM,van de Lagemaat M,Lafeber HN,Rotteveel J,Finken MJJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone disease is an important complication among very low birth weight (VLBW, <1500 g) infants. In adults, osteoporosis is associated with polymorphisms of vitamin D receptor (VDR), estrogen receptor (ER), and collagen Ialpha1 (COLIA1) genes. However, limited information is available regarding the role of these polymor...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Funke S,Morava E,Czakó M,Vida G,Ertl T,Kosztolányi G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human fetus, liver macrophages appear to be the primary source of erythropoietin (Epo). Epo production shifts from the liver to peritubular cells in the kidney sometime during the 3rd trimester. Some preterm infants experience a hyporegenerative anemia that appears to be caused by inadequate Epo production. It ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ohls RK,Li Y,Trautman MS,Christensen RD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the patterns of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) specific maternal antibodies in maternal serum, cord blood, and milk, which might play a role in prevention of H. pylori infection because transferred to the infant. Between November 2000 and November 2001, mothers were recruited after delivery of their offsp...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Weyermann M,Borowski C,Bode G,Gürbüz B,Adler G,Brenner H,Rothenbacher D

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:During the last few years, advances in the care of low-birth-weight and preterm neonates has stimulated research on the best dietetic program to improve survival and to reduce handicap incidence. At present, fortification of human milk with artificial formulas is the most usual dietetic solution. As yet, however, litt...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Velonà T,Abbiati L,Beretta B,Gaiaschi A,Flaùto U,Tagliabue P,Galli CL,Restani P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant immune responses play a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Most studies conducted to delineate the underlying molecular mechanisms focus on adults; an understanding of these mechanisms in children remains to be determined. Here, cytokines and transcription factors prod...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Busch MA,Gröndahl B,Knoll RL,Pretsch L,Doganci A,Hoffmann I,Kullmer U,Bähner V,Zepp F,Meyer CU,Gehring S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of synthetic metalloporphyrins to suppress heme oxygenase activity and bilirubin formation has recently become of considerable clinical and experimental interest for suppression of jaundice in humans, including neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. The present investigation compares the biochemical effects of Sn- a...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mark JA,Maines MD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that generation of superoxide anion occurs in cerebral cortex during asphyxia/reventilation in newborn pigs and that a high dose of indomethacin (5 mg/kg i.v.) abolishes superoxide anion production. The purposes of this study were 1) to determine whether the generation of superoxide anion occu...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pourcyrous M,Leffler CW,Bada HS,Korones SB,Busija DW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the early postnatal changes of the mesenteric circulation and its relation to the systemic circulation in 15 preterm infants. The infants were studied before the first feeding on d 1 and pre- and postprandially on d 3, 4, 5, and 7. Blood flow velocity was measured by ultrasound Doppler in the superior ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Martinussen M,Brubakk AM,Vik T,Yao AC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), the major substrate of neurologic deficits in premature infants, is associated with reduced white matter volume. Using immunomarkers of axonal pathology [beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta-APP) and apoptotic marker fractin], we tested the hypothesis that widespread (diffuse) axona...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Haynes RL,Billiards SS,Borenstein NS,Volpe JJ,Kinney HC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal exposure to infection and subsequent inflammatory responses have been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia and autism. In this review, we summarize current evidence from human and animal studies supporting the hypothesis that the pathogenesis of these two disorders is linked via exposure to inflammatio...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Meyer U,Feldon J,Dammann O

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial oxygen demand may be increased in chronically hypoxemic lambs because of their increased heart rate. Therefore, we determined whether left ventricular (LV) oxygen supply, oxygen uptake and oxygen demand were proportionally increased in 6-wk-old lambs, after 4 wk of hypoxemia (n = 15), as compared with contr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Dalinghaus M,Willem J,Gratama C,Koers JH,Gerding AM,Zijlstra WG,Kuipers JR

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased expression of CD38 on CD8(+) T cells is associated with activation of the immune system, progression of HIV disease, and death in adults. The prognostic significance of these cells in HIV-infected children, where the picture is complicated by age-related differences in CD38 expression, remains controversial....

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sherman GG,Scott LE,Galpin JS,Kuhn L,Tiemessen CT,Simmank K,Meddows-Taylor S,Meyers TM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional activity of naturally acquired IgG and IgM with specificity for the capsular polysaccharide of type III, group B Streptococcus (III-GBS) was compared. Sera collected during convalescence from 14 infants who had developed specific antibodies following III-GBS infection were employed for separation of IgG...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Campbell JR,Baker CJ,Metzger TG,Edwards MS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients with haemophilia B, belonging to 29 kindreds, were investigated with a highly sensitive immunoradiometric assay based on a homologous antibody to factor IX. The assay measures factor IX antigen (f.IX:Ag) in plasma down to 0.025 U/dl. Seventeen of 18 investigated patients with severe haemophilia B had ve...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ljung R,Holmberg L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00