Anatomical analysis of the developing cerebral vasculature in premature neonates: absence of precapillary arteriole-to-venous shunts.

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：:Premature newborns are highly susceptible to severe bacterial infections. This is partially due to their immature innate immune system, characterized by decreased neutrophil and monocyte activity as well as by reduced concentrations of complement factors. However, additional mechanisms might be important for innate im...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Förster-Waldl E,Sadeghi K,Tamandl D,Gerhold B,Hallwirth U,Rohrmeister K,Hayde M,Prusa AR,Herkner K,Boltz-Nitulescu G,Pollak A,Spittler A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is the third most common congenital disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. This study aims to elucidate changes in protein expression between the normal and aganglionic hindgut in human HSCR. METHODS:The biopsies were obtained from the normal and aganglionic hindgut in human HSC...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zhang SC,Chen F,Jiang KL,Yuan ZW,Wang WL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of high concentrations of sodium in the sweat of patients with cystic fibrosis is widely accepted by all investigators as one of the most important manifestations of the genetic defect. However, the simple means of sweat collection utilized for diagnostic purposes has been extended to the biochemical and ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sens DA,Simmons MA,Spicer SS

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment of pulsatile secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH), measured by both immunoassay (I-LH) and rat interstitial cell testosterone production bioassay (B-LH), as well as of follicle-stimulating hormone and glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit was carried out in seven normal prepubertal and six normal premenarc...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Reiter EO,Biggs DE,Veldhuis JD,Beitins IZ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prematurity is associated with delayed postnatal activation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and impaired switch from glycolytic to oxidative metabolism. Fatty acids (FA), which represent a major energy substrate in mature muscle cells, are engaged in the postnatal activation of genes of energy metabolism an...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Brauner P,Kopecký P,Flachs P,Ruffer J,Sebron V,Plavka R,Vítková I,Vorlícek J,Kopecký J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was twofold: (1) to identify and characterize the enzymatic ATP hydrolysis system of epithelial cilia, and (2) to develop a quantitative, biochemical test for the ciliotoxic cystic fibrosis (CF) factor based on inhibition of ATP utilization by ciliary preparations. Our rationale for s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Farrell PM,Fox GN,Spicer SS

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of how glutamine benefits critically ill patients have not been established. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of dietary and endogenously produced glutamine on small intestinal morphology using light and transmission electron microscopy in artificially reared rat pups. It was hypot...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Potsic B,Holliday N,Lewis P,Samuelson D,DeMarco V,Neu J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) is reported increasingly in pediatric research, but different strategies used to identify and manage potential outlier beats impact HRV parameter values in adults and animals. Do they in pediatrics? To compare the impact of different strategies to identifying and managing outliers, we used...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kemper KJ,Hamilton C,Atkinson M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with inborn errors of urea synthesis who survive neonatal hyperammonemic coma commonly exhibit cognitive deficits and neurologic abnormalities. Yet, there is evidence that ammonia is not the only neurotoxin. Hyperammonemia appears to induce a number of neurochemical alterations. In rodent models of hyperammon...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Robinson MB,Heyes MP,Anegawa NJ,Gorry E,Djali S,Mellits ED,Batshaw ML

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:We established an experimental animal model of the gastrointestinal colonization and systemic disease following oral challenge of type III group B streptococcal strain in 3-day-old newborn rats. Two type III group B streptococcal strains isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of septic newborn infants produced coloniza...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kim KS,Dunn K,McGeary SA,Stiehm ER

更新日期：1984-12-01 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 primary manifestations of Pompe disease are muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy. Although accumulation of glycogen has also been seen in the nervous system in patients, the significance of brain involvement in infantile-onset Pompe disease is not clear. In this study, brain development in five cases of infantile-on...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chien YH,Lee NC,Peng SF,Hwu WL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin responsive multiple carboxylase deficiency was suspected in a third trimester conceptus on the basis of enzymatic confirmation in fibroblasts cultured from an earlier sibling who suffered a demise in the immediate neonatal period. Maternal urinary organic acid profile was normal throughout the final 4 wk of pre...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Roth KS,Yang W,Allan L,Saunders M,Gravel RA,Dakshinamurti K

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig gallbladder smooth muscle contractility undergoes a period of postnatal maturation. Because tissues from adult animals contract more forcefully than tissues from newborn animals when stimulated with agonists that activate the contractile process through different mechanisms (receptor activation, membrane de...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Lambert R,Ryan JP

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isobutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (IBD) enzyme is involved in the degradation of valine. IBD deficiency was first reported in 1998 and subsequent genetic investigations identified acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACAD) 8, now IBD, as the gene responsible for IBD deficiency. Only three individuals homozygous or compound heterozy...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Pedersen CB,Bischoff C,Christensen E,Simonsen H,Lund AM,Young SP,Koeberl DD,Millington DS,Roe CR,Roe DS,Wanders RJ,Ruiter JP,Keppen LD,Stein Q,Knudsen I,Gregersen N,Andresen BS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diseases of adulthood, such as diabetes and hypertension, may be related to changes during pregnancy, particularly in kidney. We hypothesized that acute kidney injury progresses more rapidly in cases of fetal programming. METHODS:Diabetic dams' offspring were divided into: CC (controls, receiving vehicle); ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Corrêa RR,Pucci KR,Rocha LP,Pereira Júnior CD,Helmo FR,Machado JR,Rocha LB,Rodrigues AR,Glória MA,Guimarães CS,Câmara NO,Reis MA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitosan is a natural, cationic polysaccharide derived from fully or partially deacetylated chitin. Chitosan is capable of inducing large phospholipid aggregates, closely resembling the function of nonionic polymers tested previously as additives to therapeutic lung surfactants. The effects of chitosan on improving th...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Zuo YY,Alolabi H,Shafiei A,Kang N,Policova Z,Cox PN,Acosta E,Hair ML,Neumann AW

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of blue light phototherapy on the expression of circadian genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and plasma melatonin levels in neonates. Real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to determine the expression of Bmal1 ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chen A,Du L,Xu Y,Chen L,Wu Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in Doppler transmitral flow patterns during the 1st d of life. Doppler echocardiography of the ascending aorta and mitral valve was performed serially in 20 normal neonates at 2, 12, and 24 h of age. A computer-interfaced digitizer pad was used to measure the following...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Harada K,Shiota T,Takahashi Y,Tamura M,Toyono M,Takada G

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Observational studies suggest that asthma control improves after adenotonsillectomy, but longitudinal studies that correlate the effect of the procedure on the levels of biomarkers associated with airway inflammation are limited. METHODS:We conducted a longitudinal, observational study on pediatric patients...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Levin JC,Gagnon L,He X,Baum ED,Karas DE,Chupp GL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous measurements of serum immunoreactive thyrocalcitonin (iTCT), immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH), calcium, inorganic phosphate, magnesium, and alkaline phosphatase were made in 37 normal children whose ages ranged from 6-12 years. Between the ages of 6 and 12 there is a statistically significant ris...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shainkin-Kerstenbaum R,Funkenstein B,Conforti A,Shani S,Berlyne GM

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:The intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), FluMist, has been widely appreciated by pediatricians, parents, and children alike for its ease of administration. However, concerns regarding lack of effectiveness in recent influenza seasons led to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) re...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gill MA,Schlaudecker EP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) are important for the metabolism of numerous therapeutics and toxicants. Six mammalian FMO genes (FMO1-6) have been identified, each exhibiting developmental and tissue- and species-specific expression patterns. Previous studies demonstrated that human hepatic FMO1 is restri...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Koukouritaki SB,Simpson P,Yeung CK,Rettie AE,Hines RN

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven essentially healthy term infants who received gentamicin starting on the 1st day of life for prolonged rupture of membranes and maternal fever were compared with nine healthy term infants to determine whether this drug induces alterations in the auditory pathway. The auditory pathway was studied on the 3rd day o...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kohelet D,Usher M,Arbel E,Arlazoroff A,Goldberg M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal lung cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase, cyclic AMP, phosphatidyl choline, and incorporation of precursors into phosphatidyl choline were measured in rabbits after maternal administration of hydrocortisone phosphate and aminophylline. Both agents inhibited lung phosphodiesterase activity and augmented cyclic AMP conce...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Barrett CT,Sevanian A,Lavin N,Kaplan SA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied properties of saliva and of dental plaque which affect the caries process in an effort to understand the low prevalence of caries in patients with chronic renal failure. Plaque pH, before and following carbohydrate exposure, saliva pH, and saliva composition were evaluated in children and adolescents with c...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Peterson S,Woodhead J,Crall J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk factors for diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are poorly understood. We investigated the association of variants in hypoxia-response genes with phenotype severity in pediatric HCM. METHODS:A total of 80 unrelated patients <21 y and 14 related members from eight families with HC...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Alkon J,Friedberg MK,Manlhiot C,Manickaraj AK,Kinnear C,McCrindle BW,Benson LN,Addonizio LJ,Colan SD,Mital S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00