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Effects of Dose and Parenteral Lipid Composition on Liver Function in Neonatal Piglets on Total Parenteral Nutrition
DownloadSpring 2014
Both parenteral lipid dose and fatty acid (FA) composition have been proposed as risk factors for neonatal intestinal failure associated liver disease (IFALD). This research compared conventional lipid (Intralipid®, n-6FA), dosed both high (10 g/kg/d) and low (5 g/kg/d), to fish oil (Omegaven®,...
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Fall 2010
The endoplasmic reticulum is responsible for folding of newly synthesized proteins. Chaperone proteins, calreticulin and calnexin, with the thiol-oxidoreductase ERp57, interact with nascent proteins in a cycle of quality control to ensure proteins are folded correctly. In this study, we...
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Endothelial Colony Forming Cells: Role in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and evaluation of new therapeutic strategies
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Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease of prematurity, results in alveolar simplification and respiratory distress in the newborn. Vascular component is implicated. Lung damage involves a deficiency in the number and function of progenitor cells. We hypothesize that endothelial...
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Engagement of children and parents in developing outcome measures and determining minimal important difference: focus on probiotics and antibiotic-associated diarrhea
DownloadFall 2022
Introduction Patient engagement as a major component of patient-oriented research (POR) emphasizes that patients should be engaged not only as participants, but also as research partners. Having patient perspectives to inform the content and relevance of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)...
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Enrollment in Multidisciplinary Clinical Care for Pediatric Weight Management: Predictors, Reasons, Facilitators, and Recommendations
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Background: One-third of Canadian children meet the criteria for overweight or obesity. While multidisciplinary clinical care (MCC) can be effective to manage pediatric obesity, many eligible children are not referred to this level of care and many of those who are referred do not enroll in...
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Enteral diet and necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates: a scoping review and parent outcome prioritization project
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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a potentially life-threatening inflammatory disease of the gut affecting newborns, especially preterm infants. This complex disease is affected by numerous risk factors including genetics, intestinal microbiota, immune system responses, cardiac or respiratory...
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Epithelial and vascular progenitors in the developing lung: Newer insights and therapeutic implications
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Stanislaus Alphonse, Anthuvan Rajesh
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) are life-threatening lung diseases affecting newborn infants. Both diseases are characterized by impaired lung development and are currently untreatable. Dysregulation in the number or function of lung progenitor cells is...
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Evaluation of fecal microbial transplant as a treatment method for disruption of the gut microbiota associated with short bowel syndrome in neonates.
DownloadFall 2021
Background Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is the leading cause of intestinal failure (IF), wherein either the function of the intestines is suboptimal, or length has been reduced due to congenital or acquired conditions, such that parenteral nutrition (PN) is required for >6 weeks. The most common...
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Evolution of Left ventricular Function and Its Tolerance of Tachycardia in Early Infancy: a Simultaneous Invasive and Noninvasive Assessment in Neonatal and Young Infant Piglets
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Background: The literature examining ventricular function of the neonate and young infant is fragmented. Furthermore, the clinical implications of the observed differences have been largely extrapolated from adult studies. Clinical echocardiography-based investigations at rest, for instance, have...
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Existence of endothelial progenitor cells with self-renewal and clonogenic potential in normal human placenta and preeclampsia
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Preeclampsia (PE) is the leading cause of maternal death in developing countries. PE is defined as hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. The only curative treatment is placental delivery. Evidence suggests that placental vasculature is disturbed with shallow invasion of...