Binding of placental lactogen and growth hormone to fetal sheep fibroblasts.

abstract：BACKGROUND:No study has examined the association between prenatal phthalate exposure and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). This study aimed to investigate whether prenatal exposure to phthalates was associated with increased risk of IUGR. METHODS:A total of 126 mother-newborn pairs, including 42 IUGR cases and 8...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zhao Y,Chen L,Li LX,Xie CM,Li D,Shi HJ,Zhang YH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms of plasma renin activity (PRA) and plasma aldosterone (PA) were studied in eight healthy children, 7 to 15 years old. Blood samples were obtained at 7:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8.00 PM, and midnight on day 1 and 4:00 AM and 7:00 AM on day 2. Children had normal activity during this ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Dechaux M,Broyer M,Lenoir G,Limal JM,Sachs C

更新日期：1982-05-01 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：:The classical model of gene regulation by hormones involves a hormone-bound receptor interacting with a DNA response element to increase or decrease gene transcription. Steroid hormone regulation more commonly involves atypical cis-elements, co-receptors, accessory proteins, and unique modes of interaction on differen...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： McNab TC,Tseng YT,Stabila JP,McGonnigal BG,Padbury JF

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature birth causes significant health risks of the neonate and increases the cost for neonatal care. Urogenital infection, often caused by Gram-negative bacteria, is a known risk factor. Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) is the major endotoxin-signaling receptor and as such is crucial for the initiation of the innate im...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lorenz E,Hallman M,Marttila R,Haataja R,Schwartz DA

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Although fetal asphyxia, i.e. hypoxemia, acidosis, and hypercapnia, increases plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) greater than 40-fold, hypoxemia and metabolic acidosis occurring independently cause only 5-fold and 2-fold increases, respectively. To determine the effects of hypercapnia on AVP release, we examined the ef...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Faucher DJ,Laptook AR,Porter JC,Rosenfeld CR

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill infants are treated with dexamethasone (Dx) and other glucocorticoids to reduce inflammation and to promote lung and cardiac function. The neonatal immune system is immature, so neonatal dendritic cells (DCs) might be especially sensitive to glucocorticoid-mediated immunosuppression. To test this, we co...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mainali ES,Kikuchi T,Tew JG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis of young childhood predominantly affecting the coronary arteries. IgA plasma cells have been found to infiltrate vascular and nonvascular tissues in fatal acute KD. To determine whether IgA B-lymphocytes were increased in the peripheral blood of patients with KD, we perform...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shingadia D,O'Gorman M,Rowley AH,Shulman ST

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal susceptibility to overwhelming bacterial infection is commonly attributed to a relative deficiency in serum opsonic activity. However, few studies have compared the functional capacity of the classical complement pathway with that of the alternative complement pathway in the neonate. The opsonic activity of n...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mills EL,Björksteń B,Quie PG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of synthetic metalloporphyrins to suppress heme oxygenase activity and bilirubin formation has recently become of considerable clinical and experimental interest for suppression of jaundice in humans, including neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. The present investigation compares the biochemical effects of Sn- a...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mark JA,Maines MD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aceruloplasminemia is an autosomal recessive disorder of iron metabolism characterized by diabetes, retinal degeneration, and neurologic symptoms. Affected patients evidence marked parenchymal iron accumulation in conjunction with an absence of circulating serum ceruloplasmin and molecular genetic analysis reveals inh...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gitlin JD

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with the acute neonatal form of pyruvate carboxylase deficiency (cross-reacting material negative) presented with severe intractable lactic acidosis within 4 h after birth. He also had hyperammonemia, hypercitrullinemia, and hyperlysinemia. Plasma glutamine was not elevated. He had a rapidly deteriorating cl...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wong LT,Davidson AG,Applegarth DA,Dimmick JE,Norman MG,Toone JR,Pirie G,Wong J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human GH is encoded by the GH-1 gene which belongs to the GH gene cluster encompassing a distance of about 65 kb on the long arm of chromosome 17. Familial isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) is associated with at least four Mendelian disorders. These include two forms that have autosomal recessive inheritance (...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wagner JK,Eblé A,Hindmarsh PC,Mullis PE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of auditory brainstem response (ABR) for assessment of hearing in the neonate has not been without challenge. Although numerous articles have appeared, agreement regarding the utility of neonatal ABR testing does not exist. In review of the current studies and commentaries, a clear majority are favorable to ne...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Cox LC

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:To examine the levels and relationship of blood pressure and insulin during puberty, blood pressure and serum insulin were measured in 3596 subjects, aged 3-18 y, whose pubertal status was graded according to the Tanner classification. The same study protocol was repeated in two follow-up surveys 3 and 6 y later for 2...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Taittonen L,Uhari M,Turtinen J,Nuutinen M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat undergoes profound maturational changes in the intestinal structure and function during the third week of its life. To investigate the role of peripheral glucocorticoid metabolism in this process, we studied the postnatal maturation of intestinal structure and function. The peripheral metabolism of glucocortic...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pácha J,Vagnerová R,Bryndová J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We injected 3-day-old (neonatal), 8-day-old (infant), and 8-wk-old (adult) Sprague-Dawley rats with monocrotaline to examine the effect of a toxic agent at various stages of lung development. Two and four weeks after injection the rats were killed and the heart and lungs removed: the right and left ventricles were sep...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Todd L,Mullen M,Olley PM,Rabinovitch M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolonged hypoglycemia leads to brain injury, despite treatment with 10% dextrose. Whether induction of hyperglycemia or ketonemia achieves better neuroprotection is unknown. Hyperglycemia is neuroprotective in other brain injuries during development; however, it worsens hypoglycemia-induced injury in the ad...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ennis K,Dotterman H,Stein A,Rao R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Appearance of sleep cycling has been associated with good outcome in term and preterm infants, but the normal time of its appearance has not been determined. The objectives of this study were, to correlate the time of sleep cycling appearance and the length of quiet sleep in neonates with different degrees o...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Abramsky R,Stavsky M,Novack V,Shany E

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Contributions from multidisciplinary investigations have focused attention on the potential of tissue engineering to yield novel therapeutics. Congenital malformations, including cleft palate, craniosynostosis, and craniofacial skeletal hypoplasias represent excellent targets for the implementation of tissue engineeri...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Panetta NJ,Gupta DM,Slater BJ,Kwan MD,Liu KJ,Longaker MT

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine the prevalence of respiratory pathogens among newborns admitted to a neonatal medium care unit (NMCU) and to identify clinical predictors. METHODS:A 1-y observational study was performed of neonates admitted to an NMCU in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nasopharyngeal samples were ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Smit PM,Pronk SM,Kaandorp JC,Weijer O,Lauw FN,Smits PH,Claas EC,Mulder JW,Beijnen JH,Brandjes DP

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Infection is a risk factor for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm newborns. Our objective was to characterize the association of postnatal infection with adverse microstructural and metabolic brain development in premature newborns. RESULTS:In 34/117 newborns studied, clinical signs were accomp...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chau V,Brant R,Poskitt KJ,Tam EW,Synnes A,Miller SP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleens from 1-20-wk-old guinea pigs infected in utero with Treponema pallidum and age-matched controls, born to normal and heat-killed (56 degrees C, 2 h.) T. pallidum-injected mothers, were examined for their in vitro lymphoproliferative response to phytohemagglutinin, concanavalin A, and lipopolysaccharide. Additio...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wicher V,Zhao J,Dilwith R,Burger R,Wicher K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroform:methanol extracts of bovine pulmonary surfactant contain small hydrophobic proteins, designated surfactant-associated apoproteins 6,000 (SAP-6), but do not contain the major surfactant-associated 35,000-dalton glycoprotein, designated SAP-35. Examination of lipid extract surfactant on sodium dodecylsulfate-...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Yu SH,Wallace D,Bhavnani B,Enhorning G,Harding PG,Possmayer F

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination can protect animals from asthma, but the effect of BCG on childhood asthma prevention is controversial in humans. To verify the hypothesis that the BCG anti-asthma effect in childhood might be reversed by a respiratory virus infection, newborn BALB/c mice were divided into fi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Li R,Yang X,Wang L,Liu E

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric Oxide (NO) can be cytotoxic or cytoprotective depending on amount and location of its generation. eNOS is important in modulating blood flow and is allosterically regulated. Inducible NOS (iNOS) tends to produce large quantities of NO leading to cell injury. We studied the role and regulation of NOS in carbon t...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Liu H,Subramony C,Nowicki M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00