Where does the developing brain obtain its docosahexaenoic acid? Relative contributions of dietary alpha-linolenic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, and body stores in the developing rat.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to assess cortical gray matter growth and maturation in neonates with congenital heart disease (CHD). METHODS:Thirty-one (near) term neonates with severe CHD (8 univentricular heart malformation (UVH), 21 d-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA) and 2 aortic coarctation) underwent cerebral...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Claessens NH,Moeskops P,Buchmann A,Latal B,Knirsch W,Scheer I,Išgum I,de Vries LS,Benders MJ,von Rhein M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:11-Beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (HSD2) oxidizes the biologically active glucocorticoid (GC), cortisol, to inactive cortisone. We characterized HSD2 gene expression and activity in human adult and fetal lung tissues and in cultured fetal lung explants, and examined the potential regulation of HSD2 in the fe...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Garbrecht MR,Klein JM,McCarthy TA,Schmidt TJ,Krozowski ZS,Snyder JM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunologic consequences of exposure to HIV-1 in utero are still poorly understood. This study investigates relationships between type-1 [interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)] and type-2 (IL-10) cytokine production and maternal-infant HIV-1 transmission. Cord blood leukocytes from deliveries of 71 HIV-1-infected and 11 uninfe...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kuhn L,Coutsoudis A,Moodley D,Mngqundaniso N,Trabattoni D,Shearer GM,Clerici M,Coovadia HM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Real-time detection and classification of apneic episodes remain significant challenges. This study explores the applicability of a novel method of monitoring the respiratory effort and dynamics for rapid detection and classification of apneic episodes. METHODS:Obstructive apnea (OA) and hypopnea/central ap...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Waisman D,Lev-Tov L,Levy C,Faingersh A,Colman Klotzman I,Bibi H,Rotschild A,Landesberg A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective was to determine the association between perioperative risk factors and brain imaging abnormalities on neurologic outcome in neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) or d-Transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) who underwent cardiac surgery including cardiopulmonary bypass. MET...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kuhn VA,Carpenter JL,Zurakowski D,Reitz JG,Tague L,Donofrio MT,Murnick J,Axt-Fliedner R,Limperopoulos C,Yerebakan C

更新日期：2020-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the mechanisms of autoregulatory impairment in meningitis, we studied the effects of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) on pial vessels during hemorrhagic hypotension in rats, using a cranial window technique. We prepared cranial windows in barbiturate-anesthetized, mechanically ventilated rats. Artificial...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Berkowitz ID,Hayden WR,Traystman RJ,Jones MD Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EBV has been associated with several malignancies in humans. EBV can also infect marmoset B lymphocytes, which, as opposed to human B cells, are permissive for lytic Epstein-Barr viral replication. Mice with a severe combined immunodeficiency phenotype (SCID mice) are extremely susceptible to EBV-induced lymphomagenes...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Katz BZ,Salimi B,Saini U,McNamara JG,Eisen R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical emollient therapy may reduce the incidence of serious infections and mortality of preterm infants in developing countries. We tested whether emollient therapy reduced the burden of pathogens on skin and/or prevented bacterial translocation. Neonates <33 wk gestational age were randomized to treatment with sunf...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Darmstadt GL,Saha SK,Ahmed AS,Choi Y,Chowdhury MA,Islam M,Law PA,Ahmed S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of neuromuscular diseases are associated with molecular defects in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). These include: 1) a missense mutation at nucleotide 11778 in the mtDNA of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy patients; 2) a heterogeneous array of deletions in the mtDNA of ocular myopathy patients; and 3) small...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wallace DC,Lott MT,Lezza AM,Seibel P,Voljavec AS,Shoffner JM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biliary atresia (BA) is an infantile disorder characterized by progressive sclerosing cholangiopathy leading to biliary obstruction. First-line treatment of BA is hepatoportoenterostomy, the prognosis of which is related to age at surgery and to histological variables such as extent of fibrosis and ductular ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： de Souza AF,Meurer L,da Silveira TR,Gregório C,Reus N,Uribe C,Matte U,dos Santos JL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-cell line derived from a patient with severe combined immunodeficiency who died of a lymphoreticular malignancy has been characterized. The line derived from bone marrow cultures and designated DV-1 shows surface and cytoplasmic IgM and staining with fluorescent monoclonal antibodie...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rosenblatt HM,Lewis DE,Sklar J,Cleary ML,Parikh N,Galili N,Ritz J,Shearer WT

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is 5-fold higher in preterm (PT) infants born ≤28 weeks gestational age (GA) as compared to the general population. The relationship between placental pathologic lesions and ASD in PT infants has not been studied. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was t...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mir IN,White SP,Steven Brown L,Heyne R,Rosenfeld CR,Chalak LF

更新日期：2020-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung's disease, affecting one in 5000 live newborns, is the most common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction. The obstruction or, later in life, constipation arises from the lack of enteric ganglia in the hindgut, thus resulting in poor coordination of peristalsis. Mutations in Hirschsprung patients have s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Svensson PJ,Von Tell D,Molander ML,Anvret M,Nordenskjöld A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult human airway smooth muscle (ASM) produce cytokines involved in recruitment and survival of leukocytes within airway walls. Cytokine generation by adult ASM is glucocorticoid-sensitive. Whether developing lung ASM produces cytokines in a glucocorticoid-sensitive fashion is unknown. METHODS:Cultured fet...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pearson H,Britt RD Jr,Pabelick CM,Prakash YS,Amrani Y,Pandya HC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is developed for the detection of homozygotes and heterozygote carriers of Niemann-Pick disease type A by employing a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique for the measurement of sphingomyelin (SP) as well as for the assay of the enzyme sphingomyelinase (SPase) in skin fibroblasts and amniot...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Jungalwala FB,Milunsky A

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), acting through its C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR-2), has important roles in inflammation, angiogenesis, and wound repair. The individual and combined effects of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) and hyperoxia on lung MCP-1 and CCR-2 in relation to lung leukocyte dynamics are unknown...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ekekezie II,Thibeault DW,Garola RE,Truog WE

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Children with nephropathic cystinosis store 50 to 100 times normal amounts of free cystine in many cells and display negligible lysosomal cystine transport in their leucocytes and cultured fibroblasts. A patient with intermediate (adolescent) cystinosis exhibited a similar deficiency of egress out of fibroblast lysoso...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gahl WA,Tietze F

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which dexamethasone (DEX) inhibits neutrophil (PMN) recruitment to a site of inflammation, such as the newborn lung with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, is not completely understood. The aim of our study was to determine whether DEX inhibits neutrophil-induced neutrophil recruitment by inhibition of inter...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zentay Z,Sharaf M,Qadir M,Drafta D,Davidson D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of two slightly different influenza A/ts-1[E] recombinant candidate live vaccines was given intranasally to each of 23 young children. Twelve of 15 children who had no serum HI antibody but who did have serum ANAB at the time of administration became infected and 1 had mild rhinitis. All eight who lacked both type...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kim HW,Arrobio JO,Brandt CD,Parrott RH,Murphy BR,Richman DD,Chanock RM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that nitric oxide (NO) production by the fetal ductus arteriosus is limited because of low fetal PO2, but that at neonatal PO2, NO might be an important regulator of ductus arteriosus tone. We exposed isolated rings of fetal lamb ductus arteriosus to elevated PO2. L-NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Clyman RI,Waleh N,Black SM,Riemer RK,Mauray F,Chen YQ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationships between cerebral fractional oxygen extraction (FOE), mean arterial blood pressure (MABP), left ventricular output (LVO), blood gases, and other physiologic variables in 36 very-low-birth-weight preterm infants during the first 3 d after birth. There was a decrease in cerebral FOE ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kissack CM,Garr R,Wardle SP,Weindling AM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate atrial myocardial blood flow in the fetus under conditions of acute right ventricular pressure load and adenosine infusion. Late gestation fetal sheep were instrumented for acute right ventricular pressure loading or adenosine infusion, and regional myocardial blood flow wa...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lohr JL,Reller MD,Morton MJ,Wu DE,Thornburg KL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The preterm newborn is at high risk of developing cardiovascular compromise during the first day of life and this is associated with increased risk of brain injury. Standard treatments are volume expansion and administration of inotropes, typically dopamine and/or dobutamine, but there is limited evidence th...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Eiby YA,Shrimpton NY,Wright IM,Lumbers ER,Colditz PB,Duncombe GJ,Lingwood BE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and late-onset sepsis (LOS) are the leading causes of death among preterm infants in the developed world. This study aimed to explore the serum proteome and metabolome longitudinally in preterm infants with NEC or LOS, matched to controls. METHODS:Nineteen patients (10 cases,...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Stewart CJ,Nelson A,Treumann A,Skeath T,Cummings SP,Embleton ND,Berrington JE

更新日期：2016-03-01 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

abstract：:An animal study to evaluate dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy for measurement of neonatal body composition was performed. Twenty-three piglets with body weights ranging from 848 to 7550 g were used. After measuring total body water, animals were killed and body...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fusch C,Slotboom J,Fuehrer U,Schumacher R,Keisker A,Zimmermann W,Moessinger A,Boesch C,Blum J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children born preterm, especially boys, are at increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning difficulties. We propose that neurosteroid-replacement therapy with ganaxolone (GNX) following preterm birth may mitigate preterm-associated neurodevelopmental impairment. ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shaw JC,Dyson RM,Palliser HK,Gray C,Berry MJ,Hirst JJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00