Article
Persistently Altered Metabolic Phenotype following Perinatal Excitotoxic Brain Injury.
Developmental neuroscience - 1 Jan 2017
Blaise Benjamin J, Schwendimann Leslie, Chhor Vibol, Degos Vincent, Hodson Mark P, Dallmann Guido, Keller Matthias, Gressens Pierre, Fleiss Bobbi
Abstract excerpt
Excitotoxicity plays a key role during insults to the developing brain such as neonatal encephalopathy, stroke, and encephalopathy of prematurity. Such insults affect many thousands of infants each year. Excitotoxicity causes frank lesions due to cell death and gliosis and disturbs normal developmental process, leading to deficits in learning, memory, and social integration that persist into adulthood....
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