Human oligodendroglial development: relationship to periventricular leukomalacia.

doi:10.1016/s1071-9091(98)80033-8

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Human oligodendroglial development: relationship to periventricular leukomalacia.

Seminars in pediatric neurology - 1 Sept 1998

Kinney H C, Back S A

Abstract excerpt

Periventricular leukomalacia in the premature infant is a lesion of cerebral white matter with its greatest period of risk when white matter is immature, that is, when oligodendrocyte precursors are proliferating and differentiating, and before myelin sheaths are actively synthesized. Although th...

Topics

Antibodies, Monoclonal
Cytokines
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Leukomalacia, Periventricular
Oligodendroglia
Oxidative Stress
Phenotype

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