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Perinatal and Prenatal Disorders

This authoritative volume describes the role of free radicals and antioxidants in prenatal and perinatal disorders currently explored in clinical and pre-clinical trials. In twenty-two inclusive chapters, the book covers the gamut of oxidative stress and its relation to a variety of factors, includi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dennery, Phyllis A. (Editor), Buonocore, Giuseppe (Editor), Saugstad, Ola Didrik (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Humana, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice,
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Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.