Achondrogenesis type II, abnormalities of extracellular matrix.

abstract：:The dipeptides carnosine and anserine, found exclusively in meats, are hydrolyzed in serum by the enzyme carnosinase. Several reports of serum carnosinase deficiency describe a variable phenotype, which ranges from normal to severe psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, and myoclonic seizures in the first year of life. W...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Willi SM,Zhang Y,Hill JB,Phelan MC,Michaelis RC,Holden KR

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to describe and contrast the brain development and outcome among very preterm infants that were and were not exposed to surgery requiring general anesthesia prior to term equivalent age (TEA). METHODS:Preterm infants born ≤30 weeks' gestation who did (n = 25) and did not (n = 59) ha...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Walsh BH,Paul RA,Inder TE,Shimony JS,Smyser CD,Rogers CE

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Data regarding neonatal arterial ischemic stroke (NAIS) topography are still sparse and inaccurate. Despite the importance of locating NAIS to predict the long-term outcome of neonates, a map of arterial territories is not yet available. Our aim was therefore to generate the first three-dimensional map of ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Núñez C,Arca G,Agut T,Stephan-Otto C,García-Alix A

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Necrotizing enterocolitis is characterized by intestinal inflammation and epithelial barrier dysfunction. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphatase (MKP)-1 plays a pivotal role in the feedback control of MAPK signaling, which regulates inflammation and apoptosis. We hypothesized that MKP-1 prevents...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Talavera MM,Kralik N,Jin Y,Chen B,Liu Y,Nelin LD

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with inborn errors of urea synthesis who survive neonatal hyperammonemic coma commonly exhibit cognitive deficits and neurologic abnormalities. Yet, there is evidence that ammonia is not the only neurotoxin. Hyperammonemia appears to induce a number of neurochemical alterations. In rodent models of hyperammon...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Robinson MB,Heyes MP,Anegawa NJ,Gorry E,Djali S,Mellits ED,Batshaw ML

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine ligation of the common bile duct was carried out in ten fetal lambs at approximately 80 days gestational age. Six of the fetal lambs survived until term and were sacrificed at varying periods until the 36th day of life. The lesion which developed resembled a "correctable" type of extrahepatic biliary atre...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Spitz L

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animal models have shown that insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) may mediate protein-induced kidney growth. Our aim was to analyze the effect of IGF-I on protein-induced kidney growth in healthy infants. METHODS:This is a secondary analysis of a randomized trial that compared growth of infants fed with a ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Luque V,Escribano J,Grote V,Ferre N,Koletzko B,Gruszfeld D,Socha P,Langhendries JP,Goyens P,Closa-Monasterolo R,European Childhood Obesity Project.

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Labeled choline incorporation into adult rat lung alveolar epithelial cells and adult rat lung fibroblasts in monolayer culture was determined after incubation with insulin (Ins) 10 micrograms/ml, Dexamethasone (Dex) 10(-6)M, or no drug (ND). Incubation periods were 1, 3, 4, and 5 hours. The lecithin (phosphatidyl cho...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sharp MJ,Borer RC Jr,Vadnay L,Douglas WH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rabbit model of group B Streptococcal (GBS) shock was used to determine if myocardial dysfunction contributes to GBS shock and, if so, to ascertain if prostaglandins modulate this dysfunction. The infusion of heat-killed GBS (group I) produced a dramatic decrease in the first derivative of left ventricular pressure ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Peevy KJ,Chartrand SA,Wiseman HJ,Boerth RC,Olson RD

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidant stress has been implicated as playing a role in the pathogenesis of cholestatic liver injury. The objective of this study was to determine whether the xanthine oxidase/xanthine dehydrogenase enzyme system was involved in this oxidant stress. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with the xanthine oxidase inhi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sokol RJ,Devereaux MW,Khandwala R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of their known high incidence of noninsulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM), we sought to determine whether Native American (Plains Indian) children and adolescents show evidence of risk factors for both NIDDM and cardiovascular disease. Children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 19 y were recruited, and fi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Blackett PR,Taylor T,Russell D,Lu M,Fesmire J,Lee ET

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic ischemia is a common cause of damage to the fetal and neonatal brain. Although systemic and cerebrovascular physiologic factors play an important role in the initial phases of hypoxic-ischemic injuries, the intrinsic vulnerability of specific cell types and systems in the developing brain may be more important...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Johnston MV,Trescher WH,Ishida A,Nakajima W

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of allergic diseases has increased, and a relation between allergy and dietary fatty acids has been proposed. Modulation of the maternal immune function during pregnancy may have an impact on future clinical outcomes in the child. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of omega (omega)-3 long...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Warstedt K,Furuhjelm C,Duchén K,Fälth-Magnusson K,Fagerås M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the kinetics of hyperoxia-induced prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production by cultured rabbit tracheal epithelial (TE) cells with different inherent capacities to generate PGE2 and the role of endogenous PGE2 production in protecting these cells from hyperoxic injury. Rabbit TE cells grown to confluence with or ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Dennery PA,Walenga RW,Kramer CM,Alpert SE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro experiments were performed to examine the contractile responsiveness of guinea pig gallbladder smooth muscle as a function of developmental age. Gallbladder muscle strips from preterm (day 50-55 gestation), newborn (days 1-3 post partum), and 1-month-old animals were stimulated with agonists that initiate the...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Denehy CM,Ryan JR

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used quin2, a high affinity fluorescent calcium indicator to measure free cytosolic Ca++ in neutrophils isolated from fresh heparinized blood of 13 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients (age range 6-32 yr) and 11 healthy individuals (age range 25-41 yr) as controls. The mean value of free cytosolic Ca++ for CF patients was...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Suter S,Lew PD,Ballaman J,Waldvogel FA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied choline uptake by slices of adult and 10-day-old rat intestine which were exposed on their mucosal surface to radiolabeled choline. Both neonatal and adult intestine transported choline. Choline uptake was observed in duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and colon of the adult rat. In the small intestine, choline upta...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sheard NF,Zeisel SH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinicians could modify dietary interventions during early infancy by monitoring fat and fat-free mass accretion in very preterm infants. METHODS:Preterm infants were randomly assigned to either having reports on infant body composition available to the clinicians caring for them (intervention group) or not...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Salas AA,Jerome ML,Chandler-Laney P,Ambalavanan N,Carlo WA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a strong need for continuous cerebral circulation monitoring in neonatal care, since suboptimal cerebral blood flow may lead to brain injuries in preterm infants and other critically ill neonates. NeoDoppler is a novel ultrasound system, which can be gently fixed to the anterior fontanel and measure...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Vik SD,Torp H,Follestad T,Støen R,Nyrnes SA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetal inflammatory response has been suggested as causal in neonatal morbidity. Serial levels of circulating cytokines were evaluated in 74 infants with a mean gestational age (GA) of 27.1 wk. Pro-inflammatory [tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), IL-1 beta, IL-2, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hansen-Pupp I,Harling S,Berg AC,Cilio C,Hellström-Westas L,Ley D

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of genes involved in the innate immune system have been reported to be associated with an increased sepsis rate in adults. We determined the -159T mutation of the CD14 gene, the 896G mutation of the toll-like receptor 4 gene, the 3020insC mutation of the NOD2 gene (NOD2-3020insC), the IL-6 174G/C promoter po...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ahrens P,Kattner E,Köhler B,Härtel C,Seidenberg J,Segerer H,Möller J,Göpel W,Genetic Factors in Neonatology Study Group.

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal for this study was to determine whether the maturation of fat absorption in neonatal life is functionally related to an increased ability to hydrolyze dietary fat, to absorb long-chain fatty acids, or to do both. In 16 preterm and in eight term neonates, the intestinal ability to hydrolyze triacylglycerols an...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rings EH,Minich DM,Vonk RJ,Stellaard F,Fetter WP,Verkade HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of how glutamine benefits critically ill patients have not been established. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of dietary and endogenously produced glutamine on small intestinal morphology using light and transmission electron microscopy in artificially reared rat pups. It was hypot...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Potsic B,Holliday N,Lewis P,Samuelson D,DeMarco V,Neu J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are scarce regarding mineral bioavailability from human milk in older infants who may also be receiving solid foods (beikost). We measured the absorption of Ca, Zn, and Fe in 14 healthy, nonanemic 5-7-mo-old breast-fed infants whose mothers milk was extrinsically labeled with stable isotopes (44Ca, 70Zn, and 58Fe...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Abrams SA,Wen J,Stuff JE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-label, double-substrate incubation technique has been developed and used to study the conversion of progesterone to testosterone in testes extracts from incompletely virilized males. The procedure involves separation of the microsomes from a testicular homogenate, incubating the microsomes with 1 microM [7-3H...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chasalow FI,Blethen SL,Marr HB,French FS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based therapies hold significant promise for infants at risk for cerebral palsy (CP) from perinatal brain injury (PBI). PBI leading to CP results from multifaceted damage to neural cells. Complex developing neural networks are injured by neural cell damage plus unique perturbations in cell signaling. Given that c...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Jantzie LL,Scafidi J,Robinson S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal PMN (polymorphonuclear neutrophils) exhibit altered inflammatory responsiveness and greater longevity compared with adult PMN; however, the involved mechanisms are incompletely defined. Receptors containing immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM) domains promote apoptosis by activating inhibitor...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rashmi R,Bode BP,Panesar N,King SB,Rudloff JR,Gartner MR,Koenig JM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models with complex cortical development are useful for improving our understanding of the wide spectrum of neurodevelopmental challenges facing human preterm infants. MRI techniques can define both cerebral injury and alterations in cerebral development with translation between animal models and the human infa...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Barnette AR,Neil JJ,Kroenke CD,Griffith JL,Epstein AA,Bayly PV,Knutsen AK,Inder TE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate interpretation of the results of GH stimulation tests is of pivotal importance not only in the evaluation of the etiology of growth retardation in children but also in the selection of the best candidates for GH therapy. We performed this study to test a novel immunofunctional GH ( IFGH) assay that makes use ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mauras N,Walton P,Nicar M,Welch S,Rogol AD

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, a hormone secreted by adipocytes, is elevated in blood of obese adults. It is unknown whether the concentration is affected by gender, ethnicity, age, or stage of sexual maturation in children. We measured serum leptin levels in 183 children and 27 young adults using a double-antibody ELISA assay. Body fat mas...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ellis KJ,Nicolson M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00