UGT1A1 gene polymorphisms in North Indian neonates presenting with unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia.

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：:An increase in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and proinflammatory chemokines, such as IL-8 and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP), are found in the airways during early stages of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. We determined whether IL-10 produces a dose-related inhibition of proinflammatory chemokine rele...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Tryzmel J,Miskolci V,Castro-Alcaraz S,Vancurova I,Davidson D

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opsonisation of heat-killed bakers yeast and C3 and C4 concentrations were determined in sera from 69 children with liver disease and 39 controls as simple screening procedures for abnormalities in the complement system. Where significant defects in these moieties were encountered, the activity of the following was me...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Larcher VF,Wyke RJ,Vergani D,Mowat AP,Williams R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite effective antibiotic treatment, neuronal injury is frequent among children and adults with bacterial meningitis resulting in a high rate of death and neurologic sequelae. The hematopoietic cytokine erythropoietin (EPO) provides neuroprotection in models of acute and chronic neurologic diseases. We studied whet...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Spreer A,Gerber J,Hanssen M,Nau R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original article, the legend within Fig. 3 incorrectly read as '*p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p > 0.01'. This has now been changed to '*p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01'. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. The authors would like to apologise for this error. ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Benavides A,Metzger A,Tereshchenko A,Conrad A,Bell EF,Spencer J,Ross-Sheehy S,Georgieff M,Magnotta V,Nopoulos P

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies suggest that infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) and congenital heart defects (CHDs) may share some genetic risk factors, but little is known about the co-occurrence of the two conditions in patients. METHODS:Our study cohort included 2,212,756 persons born in Denmark 1977-2013. We...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Feenstra B,Gørtz S,Lund M,Ranthe MF,Geller F,Melbye M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolazoline is used in neonatal intensive care to treat hypoxia secondary to persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. Its use is often complicated by systemic hypotension. We compared the effect of tolazoline-induced hypotension on organ blood flow, regional brain blood flow, and cerebral metabolism in hypoxic...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Balsan MJ,Cronin CM,Shaw MD,Milley JR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two unrelated girls with chronic neutropenia [absolute neutrophil counts (ANC) 10-870 and 10-940/microL in patients 1 and 2, respectively] and severe defect in superoxide anion generation by granulocytes. Formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine-induced superoxide release was 1.2 +/- 0.9 and 1.9 +/- 1....

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Káposzta R,Maródi L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the second aim of the Kellogg Foundation grant, this double-blind RCT investigated the impact of plasma vitamin D metabolite 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) on plasma immune-mediators during pregnancy. We hypothesized that higher 25(OH)D concentrations would associate with reduced pro-inflammatory and incr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Khatiwada A,Wolf BJ,Mulligan JK,Shary JR,Hewison M,Baatz JE,Newton DA,Hawrylowicz C,Hollis BW,Wagner CL

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet volume was measured in 20 healthy children, 18 patients with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), 24 patients with chronic ITP, 22 patients with aplastic anemia, and 17 patients with acute leukemia in childhood. The authors compared the platelet volume of these patients by use of peak platelet vol...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Tomita E,Akatsuka JI,Kokubun Y

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic disease risk is inextricably linked to our early-life environment, where maternal, fetal, and childhood factors predict disease risk later in life. Currently, maternal obesity is a key predictor of childhood obesity and metabolic complications in adulthood. Although the mechanisms are unclear, new and emerging...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gohir W,Ratcliffe EM,Sloboda DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in multidrug resistance 3 gene (MDR3 or ABCB4) underlie progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3 (PFIC3), a severe pediatric liver disease progressing to cirrhosis. Abcb4-/- mice exhibit slowly developing hepatic lesions that can be accelerated by feeding a cholic acid (CA)-supplemented diet. We ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lamireau T,Bouchard G,Yousef IM,Clouzeau-Girard H,Rosenbaum J,Desmoulière A,Tuchweber B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased fetal lung expansion profoundly inhibits surfactant protein gene expression and stimulates cellular proliferation in the fetal lung. Our aim was to determine whether increased expansion of the lung after birth, by the application of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for 12 h, inhibits surfactant p...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lines AL,Davey MG,Harding R,Hooper SB

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newborn immune system differs quantitatively and functionally from that of adults. Development of the immune system has important implications for childhood diseases. The immaturity of the immune system in the first years of life may contribute to failure of tolerance induction and in the development of allergic d...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Koning H,Baert MR,Oranje AP,Savelkoul HF,Neijens HJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is increasing for a role of polymorphisms in maternal or fetal innate immune response genes in preterm birth. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important receptors in the innate immunity. The genotype distribution of two TLR2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and one TLR4 SNP were determined among 524 neona...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Krediet TG,Wiertsema SP,Vossers MJ,Hoeks SB,Fleer A,Ruven HJ,Rijkers GT

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzymes in the synthesis of the naturally occurring polyamines, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) decarboxylase, were investigated during cell growth and aging in fibroblast cultures from normal patients and patients with cystic fibrosis. A linear correlation between increased S-ade...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Buehler B,Wright R,Schott S,Darby B,Rennert OM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine (FMLP) and N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-phenylalanine (FMP) were used to investigate neutrophil (PMN) aggregation. Neutrophils were isolated from healthy adult volunteers and term newborn cord blood. Neutrophil aggregation was measured after the addition of FMLP and FMP. Adult P...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Olson TA,Ruymann FB,Cook BA,Burgess DP,Henson SA,Thomas PJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis 4 (ML4) is an autosomal recessive disorder with both lipid and mucopolysaccharide storage. The disease is characterized by severe visual impairment and psychomotor retardation. In our effort to find a phenotypic marker for ML4 fibroblasts, living cells were stained with fluorescent compounds. The stainin...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Goldin E,Blanchette-Mackie EJ,Dwyer NK,Pentchev PG,Brady RO

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum caffeine concentrations >20 μg/ml (100 μmol/l) in infants treated for apnea of prematurity increases TNF-α and decreases IL-10, changes that perhaps are linked to comorbidities. We hypothesize that this proinflammatory cytokine profile may be linked to differential binding of caffeine to adenosine rece...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chavez-Valdez R,Ahlawat R,Wills-Karp M,Gauda EB

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new animal experimental model of human neuroblastoma is described. The model involves xenotransplantation of a poorly differentiated human neuroblastoma cell line (SH-SY5Y) to the subcutaneous tissue in the hind leg of nude rats (WAG mu/rnu). Injection of 20 million cells suspended in 0.2 mL of medium in each hind l...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wassberg E,Påhlman S,Westlin JE,Christofferson R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the prevalence of Japanese children thought to be at a risk for infection with GB virus-C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV), we investigated the detection rates of serum GBV-C/ HGV ribonucleic acid (RNA) by reverse transcription-seminested PCR and serum anti-HGV-E2 antibody by ELISA in 162 children with histo...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Goto K,Sugiyama K,Li R,Miyake Y,Ando T,Mizutani F,Terabe K,Mizuno K,Wada Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with inflammatory bowel disease are known to be at risk of osteopenia. The cause of this osteopenia is likely to be multifactorial, but the inflammatory process with its characteristic overproduction of cytokines has been implicated. To investigate this possible contribution of the disease activity to the dev...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Harbour ME,Gregory JW,Jenkins HR,Evans BA

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Antigenic analysis of neuroblastoma cells was performed by autologous typing and indirect immunofluorescent test combined with absorption tests. Serum of a patient with neuroblastoma before treatment showed weak reactivity with cultured autologous neuroblastoma cells, while serum obtained from the same patient 3 month...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kawai K,Sakatoku H,Matsuda T,Kazuoka K,Kubo S,Kamiya H,Sakurai M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and -II play an important role in prenatal growth. During the first 2 months from birth, body fat doubles, and rapid weight gain during this time increases future risk of cardiometabolic disease. The aim of this study was to determine whether IGF measurements at birth assoc...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hawkes CP,Grimberg A,Kenny LC,Kiely M,Hourihane JOB,Irvine AD,McPhaul MJ,Caulfield MP,Zemel BS,Murray DM

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Neonatal group B streptococcal (GBS) sepsis produces pulmonary arterial hypertension and hypoxemia that are preventable by pretreatment with the selective thromboxane A2 synthase inhibitor, dazmegrel. In the present experiment we administered dazmegrel (8 mg/kg) 2 h after the initiation of a 2 1/2 h infusion of 5 X 10...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Truog WE,Gibson RL,Juul SE,Henderson WR,Redding GJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) regulates growth and development in the postnatal period but lacks somatotropic activity in the fetus. In contrast, the placental hormone placental lactogen (PL) stimulates amino acid transport, DNA synthesis, and somatomedin production in isolated fetal tissues, suggesting that PL may function as ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fowlkes J,Freemark M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the inhibitory effects of concentrations of tin- and zinc protoporphyrin (1-100 microM) and mesoporphyrin (0.1-10 microM) on the in vitro heme oxygenase (HO) (E.C.1.14.99.3) activity in liver, spleen, and intestine 13,000 x g tissue supernatants from fasted adult male Wistar rats through measurement of c...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Vreman HJ,Gillman MJ,Stevenson DK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonate conserves sodium avidly, and sodium intake is normally limited to that present in maternal milk. To evaluate the role of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in this adaptation, preweaned rat pups were artificially reared and fed a formula with either normal sodium (25 mEq/L) or high sodium (145 mEq/L) for 7-8...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chevalier RL,Muchant DG,Thornhill BA,Belmonte DC,Pence RA,Baertschi AJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00