Perinatal and Prenatal Disorders

Book Overview

1. Impact of oxidative stress on development.- 2. Chorioamnionitis and oxidative stress: New ideas from experimental models.- 3. Oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes mellitus.- 4. Tobacco smoking and oxidative stress in pregnancy.- 5. Preterm labor and oxidative stress.- 6. Developmental origins of disease: The role of oxidative stress.- 7. Down Syndrome as a special case of oxidatively induced developmental dysregulation.- 8. Retinopathy of prematurity and oxidative signaling.- 9. Necrotizing enterocolitis and oxidative stress.- 10. Oxidative stress and the perinatal circulation.- 11. Use of oxygen in the resuscitation of neonates.- 12. Antioxidant properties of commercial surfactants.- 13. Oxidative stress and Glutathione synthesis rates in postnatal life.- 14. Oxygen vulnerability of the immature brain.- 15. Hyperbilirubinemia and antioxidant defenses in the neonate.- 16. Neonatal pain and oxidative stress.- 17. Ontogeny of antioxidant systems.- 18. Antioxidant therapies in the neonates.- 19. Postnatal stress including nutrition.- 20. Oxidative stress in epilepsy.- 21. The oxidative stress in the fetus and newborn.- 22. New promising antioxidant drugs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493953680
• ISBN13: 9781493953684
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"