Statins prevent adverse effects of postnatal glucocorticoid therapy on the developing brain in rats.

abstract：:This investigation was undertaken to determine the nature of acute alterations in renal function following the production of hypoxemia, hypercarbia, and acidosis in newborn piglets 6-96 hr of age. After completion of the surgical procedure piglets were allowed to recover from the effects of anesthesia. When respirator...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Alward CT,Hook JB,Helmbrath TA,Bailie MD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the hemodynamic effects of isoproterenol, dopamine, and dobutamine in the immature animal, each drug was infused into anesthetized open chest puppies and cardiac output was measured, as were systemic arterial blood pressure, heart rate, and renal artery blood flow. Cardiac output was increased by dopamine a...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Driscoll DJ,Gillette PC,Lewis RM,Hartley CJ,Schwartz A

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Momentum around the era of genomic medicine is building, and with it, anticipation of the benefits that whole genome analysis (personalized or individualized genomics) will bring for the provision of health care. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize genetic diagnosis; however, the expansive data gene...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ali-Khan SE,Daar AS,Shuman C,Ray PN,Scherer SW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal intrauterine growth retardation was induced in nine rats at 17 days' gestation by ligating the blood supply to one of the uterine horn. The 27 festuses from the uterine vessel ligated side were the intrauterine growth retarded fetuses (IUGR) and the 37 fetuses from the nonligated side were controls. The mean wei...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kwong MS,Moore TC,Lemmi CA,Oh W,Thibeault DW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiration is a major cause of lung disease in infants and young children. As the symptoms and signs of aspiration are not specific, the diagnosis is delayed due to a low index of suspicion and low sensitivity and specificity of the available diagnostic tests. In the present study, we evaluated the utility of microsph...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Springer C,Benita S,Sherman Y,Gursoy N,Gilhar D,Avital A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) plays an important role in the stimulation of postnatal brain growth. In transgenic (Tg) mice, IGF-I overexpression stimulates postnatal brain growth, whereas decreased IGF-I availability caused by ectopic brain expression of IGF binding protein-1 [(IGFBP-1), an inhibitor of IGF-I ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lee KH,Calikoglu AS,Ye P,D'Ercole AJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk factors for diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are poorly understood. We investigated the association of variants in hypoxia-response genes with phenotype severity in pediatric HCM. METHODS:A total of 80 unrelated patients <21 y and 14 related members from eight families with HC...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Alkon J,Friedberg MK,Manlhiot C,Manickaraj AK,Kinnear C,McCrindle BW,Benson LN,Addonizio LJ,Colan SD,Mital S

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:In mice, secondary alveolar septal formation primarily occurs during a brief postnatal period and is accompanied by transient expansion of the interstitial lung fibroblast (LF) population. PDGF-A, which solely signals through PDGF-receptor-alpha (PDGF-Rα), is required for expansion, but the receptor's relevant downstr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： McGowan SE,McCoy DM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LBW infants are at risk of iron deficiency (ID), which is associated with impaired nervous system development and may lead to prolonged auditory brainstem response (ABR) latencies. We hypothesized that iron supplementation shortens ABR latencies in marginally LBW (MLBW, 2000-2500 g) infants. In a randomized, controlle...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Berglund SK,Westrup B,Haraldsson E,Engström B,Domellöf M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung development requires extracellular matrix remodeling. This involves matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their endogenous inhibitors [tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs)]. Because these have been generally studied only in whole lung, we focused specifically on mesenchymal and epithelial cells freshly ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Boucherat O,Bourbon JR,Barlier-Mur AM,Chailley-Heu B,D'Ortho MP,Delacourt C

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deficiency of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity, which was evident in some but not all cystic fibrosis amniotic fluids, could be corrected by mixing with either normal fluids or nondeficient cystic fibrosis fluids. Incubation of any amniotic fluid for 20 min at 62 degrees C resulted in total loss of gamma-glu...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ben-Yoseph Y,Rembelski P,Nadler HL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of low doses of dopamine in children. Fourteen cases were studied after open heart surgery. Cardiac output and renal parameters were determined under baseline conditions and under continuous infusion of dopamine 2.5 and 5 micrograms/kg/min. During the control peri...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Girardin E,Berner M,Rouge JC,Rivest RW,Friedli B,Paunier L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) is reported increasingly in pediatric research, but different strategies used to identify and manage potential outlier beats impact HRV parameter values in adults and animals. Do they in pediatrics? To compare the impact of different strategies to identifying and managing outliers, we used...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kemper KJ,Hamilton C,Atkinson M

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Milk gangliosides inhibit Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin. Human milk gangliosides showed considerably higher enterotoxin-inhibitory activity compared to bovine and formula milk gangliosides as measured in vitro by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and in vivo in rabbit small b...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Laegreid A,Otnaess AB,Fuglesang J

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following our clinical observation of tonic responses in response to the knee jerk in infants at very high risk for cerebral palsy (VHR infants), we systematically studied tonic responses, clonus, and reflex irradiation. We questioned (i) whether these responses occurred more often in VHR infants than in typ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hamer EG,Dijkstra LJ,Hooijsma SJ,Zijdewind I,Hadders-Algra M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that mediate the postnatal fall in pulmonary vascular resistance, which is crucial for normal gas exchange, are not fully understood. The endothelium has been implicated in this phenomenon, through the release of vasorelaxant factors such as nitric oxide (NO). Human pulmonary expression of endothelial NO s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lévy M,Maurey C,Dinh-Xuan AT,Vouhé P,Israël-Biet D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation (NRI) was widely used from 1940 through 1970 to treat otitis serosa in children and barotrauma in airmen and submariners. We assessed whether NRI-exposed individuals were at higher risk for benign tumors, nonmelanoma skin cancer, thyroid disorders, and conditions related to regulatory...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ronckers CM,Land CE,Hayes RB,Verduijn PG,Stovall M,van Leeuwen FE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Beta cells are partially replaced in neonatal rodents after deletion with streptozotocin (STZ). Exposure of pregnant rats to a low protein (LP) diet impairs endocrine pancreas development in the offspring, leading to glucose intolerance in adulthood. Our objective was to determine whether protein restriction has a sim...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Cox AR,Gottheil SK,Arany EJ,Hill DJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established an experimental animal model of the gastrointestinal colonization and systemic disease following oral challenge of type III group B streptococcal strain in 3-day-old newborn rats. Two type III group B streptococcal strains isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of septic newborn infants produced coloniza...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kim KS,Dunn K,McGeary SA,Stiehm ER

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spontaneously breathing newborn lambs, alveolar hypoxia increases lung microvascular pressure, which causes lung lymph flow to increase and the concentration of protein in lymph to decrease. To see if this response derives from hypoxia itself rather than from the change in breathing pattern that occurs during hypox...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hansen TN,Haberkern CM,Hazinski TA,Bland RD

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy and nitrogen balances were measured in growing low birthweight infants fed either mother's expressed breast milk or a 20 kcal per ounce formula to determine whether or not there were differences between the two dietary groups in (1) the partition of energy among excretion, expenditure, and storage and (2) the r...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Whyte RK,Haslam R,Vlainic C,Shannon S,Samulski K,Campbell D,Bayley HS,Sinclair JC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal growth and development is dependent on the transfer of amino acids from maternal to fetal blood across the microvillous plasma membrane (MVM) and basal plasma membrane of placental syncytiotrophoblast. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of system A amino acid transporter (SysA) activity in M...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Harrington B,Glazier J,D'Souza S,Sibley C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of kwashiorkor, a severe edematous manifestation of malnutrition, is still poorly understood. The syndrome is, however, known to be associated with alterations in redox metabolism. To further elucidate the role of oxidative stress in kwashiorkor, we carried out a longitudinal study on the major blo...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fechner A,Böhme C,Gromer S,Funk M,Schirmer R,Becker K

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short-bowel syndrome (SBS) is the most common cause of neonatal intestinal failure. Recovery requires intestinal adaptation, dependent on enteral nutrition (EN) and growth factors such as glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2), which is secreted from L cells in the ileum. Neonatal SBS often results in loss of ileum...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hua Z,Turner JM,Sigalet DL,Wizzard PR,Nation PN,Mager DR,Ball RO,Pencharz PB,Wales PW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants dying with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) demonstrate increased numbers of pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNEC). These infants also possess altered airway epithelial and smooth muscle dimensions reminiscent of oxygen-exposed animals. Because the pathogenesis of BPD involves oxygen toxicity, we hypothesized ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shenberger JS,Shew RL,Johnson DE

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00