The effect of maternal starvation on plasma insulin-like growth factor I concentrations in the late gestation ovine fetus.

abstract：:Unconjugated bilirubin promotes intestinal secretion without affecting nutrient digestion or absorption. In the current study, the effects of unconjugated bilirubin (UCB) on the barrier function of the intestinal epithelium were investigated. The apical side of human intestinal cell line Caco-2 monolayers was challeng...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Raimondi F,Crivaro V,Capasso L,Maiuri L,Santoro P,Tucci M,Barone MV,Pappacoda S,Paludetto R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adult macrosomic offspring of streptozotocin-induced mildly hyperglycemic rats exhibit accelerated growth through the first 10 wk of age. At 10 wk, oral glucose loading resulted in elevated plasma insulin and glucose concentrations compared to controls. To assess the mechanism of the abnormal glucose tolerance i...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gelardi NL,Cha CJ,Oh W

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The length of the Y chromosome was measured in 42 black patients with trisomy 21 (47,XY,+21) and a similar number of normal individuals of American black ancestry. The length of the Y was expressed as a function of Y/F ratio and arbitrarily classified into five groups using subjectively defined criteria as follows: ve...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Verma RS,Huq A,Madahar C,Qazi Q,Dosik H

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier attempts to deliver effective lung doses of surfactant by aerosolization were unsuccessful, mostly because of technical shortcomings. We aimed at quantifying the lung deposition of poractant alfa with a new supraglottic delivery system for surfactant atomization in an experimental neonatal model. ME...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nord A,Linner R,Milesi I,Zannin E,di Castri M,Bianco F,Dellacá RL,Cunha-Goncalves D,Perez-de-Sa V

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:In this study, we have investigated the possible role of the pro-aggregatory arachidonic acid (AA) metabolite thromboxane, in the impaired function of neonatal platelets. In platelet-rich plasma thromboxane production (measured by radioimmunoassay of thromboxane B2) was not different between neonates and adults when s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Stuart MJ,Dusse J,Clark DA,Walenga RW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, children differ in maturational tempo. HYPOTHESES:(i) puberty and its duration are influenced by early changes in height and adiposity. (ii) Adiposity rebound (AR) is a marker for pubertal tempo. METHODS:We utilized published prospective data from 6...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： German A,Shmoish M,Hochberg Z

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indomethacin, because of its prostaglandin inhibition, may cause constriction of the ductus arteriosus and affect the pulmonary circulation. To study this possibility, we gave indomethacin daily by gavage to two groups of pregnant rats from the 17th day of pregnancy through delivery (group 1, 2 mg/kg/day; group 2, 4 m...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Harker LC,Kirkpatrick SE,Friedman WF,Bloor CM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition in early life, growth, and subsequent health over a lifetime are significantly interrelated. The aim of this study was to assess body composition changes in exclusively breast-fed infants from birth up to 6 mo of age. An observational, prospective, cohort study was conducted. Fifty-nine full-term, healthy, e...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Roggero P,Giannì ML,Orsi A,Piemontese P,Amato O,Liotto N,Morlacchi L,Taroni F,Fields DA,Catalano PM,Mosca F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early identification of infants at risk for complications from patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) may improve treatment outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify biochemical markers associated with persistence of PDA, and with failure of pharmacological treatment for PDA, in extremely preterm infants. MET...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Olsson KW,Larsson A,Jonzon A,Sindelar R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of hypoxemia-related myocardial dysfunction in the newborn is generally associated with severe intrapartum asphyxia. We investigated the changes in total and regional distribution of myocardial blood flow (MBF) that occur during asphyxia and the factors that regulate MBF, in the chronically prepared, near...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Davies JM,Tweed WA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown 1,25(OH)2D3 receptor-mediated modulation of leukocyte proliferation, differentiation, and function. We examined the phagocytosis and killing of microorganisms by neutrophils and monocytes from five patients of three families with hereditary resistance to 1,25(OH)2D3. Phagocytosis of microorga...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Etzioni A,Hochberg Z,Pollak S,Meshulam T,Zakut V,Tzehoval E,Keisari Y,Aviram I,Spirer Z,Benderly A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome is the most common cause of postneonatal infant mortality in the developed world. It is a diagnosis of exclusion with peak age of incidence between 2 and 6 mo. Fifty to 63% of these infants have a preexisting upper respiratory tract infection before death. We hypothesized that the immature...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Blood-Siegfried J,Nyska A,Lieder H,Joe M,Vega L,Patterson R,Germolec D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundPatent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common complication seen in preterm infants. Indomethacin is routinely used to treat PDA. Evidence suggests that the response of indomethacin is highly heritable. This study investigated the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in CYP2C9 and the closu...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Smith CJ,Ryckman KK,Bahr TM,Dagle JM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma aldosterone (A), corticosterone (B), deoxycorticosterone (DOC), progesterone (P), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP), cortisol (F), and cortisone (E) were measured simultaneously by specific radioimmunoassays in small plasma samples obtained from 174 normal infants and children between 2 hr and 15 yr of age. The s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sippell WG,Dörr HG,Bidlingmaier F,Knorr D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jejunal biopsies obtained from 45 children referred for a variety of clinical conditions were examined histologically and by standard immunofluorescence methods. The number of plasma cells was recorded per "mucosal tissue unit". The results showed that most of the immunoglobulin A (IgA) counts in infants under 3 yr wi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Maffei HV,Kingston D,Hill ID,Shiner M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated inflammation may contribute to neonatal sepsis, for which pentoxifylline (PTX), a phosphodiesterase inhibitor that raises intracellular cAMP, is a candidate adjunctive therapy. We characterized the anti-inflammatory effects of PTX toward TLR-mediated production of inflammato...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Speer EM,Dowling DJ,Ozog LS,Xu J,Yang J,Kennady G,Levy O

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of the tall stature almost invariably seen in homocystinuric patients is not known. The effect of metabolic control and the role of the GH-IGF system on growth were investigated in 10 patients with homocystinuria. There was a direct correlation between the plasma free homocyst(e)ine and growth velocity SD...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Topaloglu AK,Sansaricq C,Snyderman SE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants with sudden infant death syndrome have higher hypoxanthine (Hx) concentrations in their vitreous humor than infants with respiratory distress syndrome and other infant control populations. However, previous research on piglets and pigs applying continuous hypoxemia has not been able to reproduce the concentrat...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Stoltenberg L,Rootwelt T,Oyasaeter S,Rognum TO,Saugstad OD

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal hemostasis depends in part on the balance achieved between proaggregatory and prothrombotic platelet thromboxane A2, measured as its stable end-product thromboxane B2 (TXB2), and vascular prostacyclin (PGI2), which inhibits platelet aggregation and is antithrombotic. Cystathionine-beta-synthase deficiency is ch...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Graeber JE,Slott JH,Ulane RE,Schulman JD,Stuart MJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a well-characterized regulator of angiogenesis, has been mechanistically implicated in retinal neovascularization and in the pathogenesis of retinopathy of prematurity. However, the ontogeny of VEGF expression in the human fetal retina is not well known. Because ret...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ma IT,McConaghy S,Namachivayam K,Halloran BA,Kurundkar AR,MohanKumar K,Maheshwari A,Ohls RK

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of cutaneous thermoreceptors may be an important factor in the initiation of continuous breathing at birth. Maintenance of a patent airway is also important in the continuation of effective ventilation after birth, but whereas in the adult the principal pharyngeal dilator is the genioglossus muscle, in the...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Johnston BM,Gunn TR,Gluckman PD

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:A sensitive and rapid high-performance liquid chromatography method for determining lecithin/sphingomyelin (L/S) ratios in small volume tracheal aspirates has been evaluated in 115 infants sampled within 3 h of delivery. Respiratory distress syndrome was present in 41 infants and all had L/S ratios of less than or equ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： D'Costa M,Dassin R,Bryan H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caffeine is widely used to manage apnea of prematurity, and reduces the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Deregulated transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signaling underlies arrested postnatal lung maturation in BPD. It is unclear whether caffeine impacts TGF-β signaling or postnatal lung develop...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rath P,Nardiello C,Surate Solaligue DE,Agius R,Mižíková I,Hühn S,Mayer K,Vadász I,Herold S,Runkel F,Seeger W,Morty RE

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical analysis and morphologic observation of the iliac crest cartilage from 8-year-old girl with I-cell disease were performed. Instead of hypertrophic change of chondrocytes in the zone of cartilage-bone junction, there were small atrophic cells having many inclusion bodies accumulated with lamellar materials....

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nogami H,Oohira A,Suzuki F,Tsuda K

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on the conceptus of persistently decreased maternal plasma amino acid concentrations were studied in pregnant rats by the infusion of glucagon (0.21 mg/day) to the mother from day 14 to 20 of gestation with a subcutaneous, osmotically driven minipump. Controls received diluent. The experimental animals eit...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Domenech M,Gruppuso PA,Nishino VT,Susa JB,Schwartz R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant osteopetrosis is a fatal congenital bone disorder characterized by defective osteoclastic function. Death frequently occurs within the first decade of life. The precise molecular defect(s) that causes osteopetrosis is not known. The possibility that osteoclasts, like macrophages, are controlled by interactio...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rodriguiz RM,Key LL Jr,Ries WL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cerebral blood flow (CBF) and the evolution of brain edema was investigated in an experimental model of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage. Seven-d postnatal rats were subjected to unilateral common carotid artery ligation followed by 3 h of hypoxia with 8% oxygen at 37 degrees C. This in...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mujsce DJ,Christensen MA,Vannucci RC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma, a neural crest-derived childhood tumor of the sympathetic nervous system, may in some cases differentiate to a benign ganglioneuroma or regress due to apoptosis. However, the majority of neuroblastomas are diagnosed as metastatic tumors with a poor prognosis despite intensive multimodal therapy. The neu...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Borgström P,Hassan M,Wassberg E,Refai E,Jonsson C,Larsson SA,Jacobsson H,Kogner P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00