Annals ofClinical Paediatric

Volume: 4 - Number: 27 - February 15, 2004

Outstanding

Cardiac Contraction Affects Respiratory Airflow in the Term Newborn Infant

Interaction Between Pulmonary Surfactant and Vernix: A Potential Mechanism for Induction of Amniotic Fluid Turbidity

Genetic Predisposition to Neural Tube Defects?

Functional Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in Heteroplasmic Cells Carrying the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Associated with the MELAS Syndrome (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Strokelike Episodes)

Cardiac Failure

Early Onset Heart Failure in Transgenic Mice with Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Fetal Medicine

ATP-Dependent Ca2+ Transport Is Up-Regulated during Third Trimester in Human Syncytiotrophoblast Basal Membranes

Chronic Lung Injury in Preterm Lambs: Abnormalities of the Pulmonary Circulation and Lung Fluid Balance

Repetitive Prenatal Glucocorticoids Increase Lung Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression in Ovine Fetuses Delivered at Term

Protein Carbonyls and Lipid Peroxidation Products as Oxidation Markers in Preterm Infant Plasma: Associations with Chronic Lung Disease and Retinopathy and Effects of Selenium Supplementation

Effect of Antenatal Dexamethasone Treatment on Ca2+-Dependent Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Rat Lung

Plasma Concentrations of the Carboxyterminal Propeptide of Type I Procollagen (PICP) in Preterm Neonates from Birth to Term

Effects of Dexamethasone Treatment on Bone and Collagen Turnover in Preterm Infants with Chronic Lung Disease

Inflammation

Ureaplasma urealyticum-Induced Production of Proinflammatory Cytokines by Macrophages

Proliferative Response of Different Human Osteoblast-like Cell Models to Proinflammatory Cytokines

Innate immunology

ß-Defensin Expression in Human Mammary Gland Epithelia

Investigative News

Erythropoietin Therapy for Premature Infants: Cost without Benefit?

Left overlod ventricular

Left Ventricular Alterations in a Model of Fetal Left Ventricular Overload

MELAS syndrome

Functional Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in Heteroplasmic Cells Carrying the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Associated with the MELAS Syndrome (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Strokelike Episodes)

Neonatology

Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation in Sick Newborn Infants

Activation of Olfactory Cortex in Newborn Infants After Odor Stimulation: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Hypocapnia Under Hypotension Induces Apoptotic Neuronal Cell Death in the Hippocampus of Newborn Rabbits

Cardiac Contraction Affects Respiratory Airflow in the Term Newborn Infant

Interaction Between Pulmonary Surfactant and Vernix: A Potential Mechanism for Induction of Amniotic Fluid Turbidity

Perinatal Iron Deficiency Decreases Cytochrome c Oxidase (CytOx) Activity in Selected Regions of Neonatal Rat Brain

Neural tube defects

Genetic Predisposition to Neural Tube Defects?

Review articles and hyphotesis

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Failure of Compensatory Cerebellar Mechanisms?