Adaptive brain shut-down counteracts neuroinflammation in the near-term ovine fetus
Objective: Repetitive umbilical cord occlusions (UCOs) in ovine fetus leading to severe acidemia result in adaptive shut-down of electrocortical activity (ECOG) as well as systemic and brain inflammation. We hypothesized that the fetuses with earlier ECOG shut-down as a neuroprotective mechanism in...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00110/full |