Late health effects of childhood nasopharyngeal radium irradiation: nonmelanoma skin cancers, benign tumors, and hormonal disorders.

abstract：:The activity of galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (transferase) and galactokinase in several organs from human fetuses 7-28 weeks old was measured by using radioactive substrates and column chromatography for product identification. The specific activity of transferase and galactokinase increased with gestationa...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shin-Buehring YS,Beier T,Tan A,Osang M,Schaub J

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of amniotic fluid turbidity during the third trimester is a known marker of fetal lung maturity. We hypothesized that this turbidity results from detachment of vernix caseosa from the fetal skin secondary to interaction with pulmonary-derived phospholipids in the amniotic fluid. To test this hypothesis...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Narendran V,Wickett RR,Pickens WL,Hoath SB

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to begin to examine the influence of inhaled NO on O2 toxicity. The survival of Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to >95% O2, >95% O2 + 10 ppm NO, >95% O2 + 100 ppm NO, and >95% O2 + 3 ppm NO2 was determined. Survival at 120 h was 2/24 in >95% O2, 2/12 in >95% O2 + 10 ppm NO, and 1/12 in >95% O...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nelin LD,Welty SE,Morrisey JF,Gotuaco C,Dawson CA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to test whether an acute period of asphyxia during birth in the rat results in long-term alterations in CNS function. Morphologic studies have indicated that the hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to perinatal anoxia. Thus, the present study tested adult rats, which had undergone acute birt...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Boksa P,Krishnamurthy A,Brooks W

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare form of thyroid dysgenesis of which some familial cases have been reported, including one associated with a heterozygous mutation in the Pax8 gene. However, the physiopathology remains not well known. The objectives of this study were 1) to describe the clinical features, 2) to look for ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Castanet M,Leenhardt L,Léger J,Simon-Carré A,Lyonnet S,Pelet A,Czernichow P,Polak M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm infants have a greater risk of necrotizing enterocolitis following transfusion. It is hypothesized that high glucose concentrations in red blood cell (RBC) preservatives lead to increased methylglyoxal (MG) metabolism, causing glycation-driven damage to transfused RBCs. Such changes to the RBCs could...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kiefer AS,Fleming T,Eckert GJ,Poindexter BB,Nawroth PP,Yoder MC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal growth restriction (FGR) remains a cause of perinatal brain injury, sometimes leading to neurological and intellectual impairment. Although the mechanisms and pathophysiology of CNS injuries have not been elucidated completely, it is possible carbohydrate and energy metabolism may have an important role in the F...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hayakawa M,Sato Y,Hattori T,Ichinohashi Y,Nakayama A,Yamamoto H,Hemmi H,Ito M,Ieda K,Kojima S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infant adiposity is linked to both high maternal fat mass (FM) and excessive gestational FM gain, whereas the association with maternal adipokines is less clear. The aim was to determine how levels of maternal leptin, the soluble leptin receptor (sOB-R), adiponectin, and FM during pregnancy were linked to in...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Andersson-Hall UK,Pivodic A,de Maré HK,Pernilla Svedin J,Carina Mallard E,Albertsson-Wikland KG,Holmäng AB

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils contribute to ischemic brain injury in adult animals. The role of neutrophils in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI) brain injury is unknown. Allopurinol reduces neutrophil accumulation after tissue ischemia and is protective against HI brain injury. This study was designed to investigate how neutrophils contr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hudome S,Palmer C,Roberts RL,Mauger D,Housman C,Towfighi J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial plasma concentrations of immunoreactive 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha (6-keto-PGF1 alpha), the stable hydration product of prostacyclin (PGI2), were measured with radioimmunoassay during the first month of life in 25 preterm infants with idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) and 38 preterm controls wi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kääpä P,Koivisto M,Viinikka L,Ylikorkala O

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of constant light in a neonatal care unit on the development of the sleep-and-wakefulness rhythm in preterm infants. Two groups of infants (57 preterm infants without other complications and 58 healthy term infants) were prospectively studied over infancy by a da...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shimada M,Segawa M,Higurashi M,Akamatsu H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal for this study was to determine whether the maturation of fat absorption in neonatal life is functionally related to an increased ability to hydrolyze dietary fat, to absorb long-chain fatty acids, or to do both. In 16 preterm and in eight term neonates, the intestinal ability to hydrolyze triacylglycerols an...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rings EH,Minich DM,Vonk RJ,Stellaard F,Fetter WP,Verkade HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin is a potent mitogen for many cell types in vitro. During tissue culture, supraphysiological concentrations of insulin are necessary to promote cell replication in connective or musculoskeletal tissues. Insulin promotes the growth of these cells by binding, with low affinity, to the type I insulin-like growth f...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hill DJ,Milner RD

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) carries high risk for neurodevelopmental impairments. Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) reduces this risk, particularly for moderate encephalopathy (ME). Nevertheless, these infants often have subtle functional deficits, including abnormal memory function. Detection of deficits at the...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pfister KM,Zhang L,Miller NC,Hultgren S,Boys CJ,Georgieff MK

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of adenosine to inosine is decreased in adenosine deaminase (ADA)-deficient fibroblasts at all concentrations of adenosine tested. Adenosine is not differentially toxic to ADA-deficient fibroblasts except at very high (5 X 10(-4) -1 X 10(-3) M) adenosine levels. Conversion of [14C] adenosine to GTP is not d...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Benke PJ,Dittmar D

更新日期：1976-07-01 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：:Branching morphogenesis, defined as growth and branching of epithelial tubules during embryogenesis, is a fundamental feature of renal, lung, mammary gland, submandibular gland, and pancreatic morphogenesis in mammals. Disruption of branching morphogenesis has been demonstrated to result in maldevelopment of some of t...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Hu MC,Rosenblum ND

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate 1) the plasma resistin concentration at birth, 2) the relationship of resistin with leptin and insulin, and 3) the association of resistin with anthropometric indexes in newborn infants. Blood samples for hormonal assay were obtained from preterm and term newborns within the first 2 h o...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ng PC,Lee CH,Lam CW,Chan IH,Wong E,Fok TF

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four protein dietary groups of rats were used in this study, namely: 27% casein diet fed throughout gestation and lactation (group C-C); 27% gestation, 10% lactation (group C-D); 10% gestation, 27% lactation (group D-C); 10% throughout gestation and lactation (group D-D). Mean body weight of group D-D at warning was 1...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kissane JQ,Hawrylewicz EJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF, or fibroblast growth factor 7) was previously reported to enhance the synthesis of surfactant in alveolar type II cells. We investigated the possible interactions between KGF and a glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (Dex), on surfactant protein (SP) gene expression. In cultured fetal rat ty...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mouhieddine-Gueddiche OB,Pinteur C,Chailley-Heu B,Barlier-Mur AM,Clement A,Bourbon JR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of cerebral blood volume (CBVR) to a small induced change in arterial carbon dioxide tension was studied by near-infrared spectroscopy in 17 newborn infants born from 26 wk of gestation to term. All 17 infants were undergoing mechanical ventilation but had apparently normal brains. The CBVR per kPa change...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wyatt JS,Edwards AD,Cope M,Delpy DT,McCormick DC,Potter A,Reynolds EO

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase II (CA II) is the only soluble isozyme of CA which is known to be expressed in kidney. We recently identified a deficiency of this enzyme as the basis for the autosomal recessive syndrome of osteopetrosis with renal tubular acidosis and cerebral calcification. In order to explore the physiological i...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sly WS,Whyte MP,Krupin T,Sundaram V

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women who are at risk of preterm delivery are treated with antenatal steroids to facilitate fetal lung maturation. During this period, there is a potential for fetal or maternal hypoxemia to occur. Fetal responses to hypoxemia in sheep are well documented. However, less is known regarding maternal responses to hypoxem...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kutzler MA,Coksaygan T,Ferguson AD,Vincent SE,Nathanielsz PW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototherapy results in the conversion of bilirubin to more water-soluble isomers. Six clinically used phototherapy lamps which differ in their emission spectra have been compared in their ability to produce configurational and structural isomers of bilirubin in vitro. For all of the lamps, the initial rate of configu...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ennever JF,Sobel M,McDonagh AF,Speck WT

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) differed between two selected groups of black and white children and whether a difference existed to determine whether it was related to hematologic profiles, body composition, and/or physical activity/inactivity level. Fort...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Andreacci JL,Robertson RJ,Dubé JJ,Aaron DJ,Balasekaran G,Arslanian SA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severely birth-asphyxiated human infants develop delayed ("secondary") cerebral energy failure, which carries a poor prognosis, during the first few days of life. This study tested the hypothesis that i.v. magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) after severe transient cerebral hypoxia-ischemia decreases the severity of delayed ener...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Penrice J,Amess PN,Punwani S,Wylezinska M,Tyszczuk L,D'Souza P,Edwards AD,Cady EB,Wyatt JS,Reynolds EO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of UDP-D-xylose:proteoglycan core protein beta-D-xylosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.26), the enzyme that catalyzes the initiation of the polysaccharide chain linkage to the core protein of proteoglycans, was measured in costal cartilage from 20 fetal sheep of 65-138 days gestation. Activity of the enzyme was es...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Morriss FH Jr,Fitzgerald B,Riddle LM

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Girls with Turner syndrome (TS) are treated with supraphysiological doses of growth hormone (GH) to improve final height; however in some girls, the growth response can be poor. This may reflect aberrations in GH and/or IGF-I actions at the cellular level, and thus this study compared the response of skin fibroblasts ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Westwood M,Tajbakhsh SH,Siddals KW,Whatmore AJ,Clayton PE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific activities of four folate enzymes have been measured in livers from preterm infants (Group 1), full-term infants (Group 2), and from control subjects (Group 3). The four enzymes studied were methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (EC 1.1.1.68), methionine synthetase (EC 2.1.1.13), methylenetetrahydrofolate ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kalnitsky A,Rosenblatt D,Zlotkin S

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00