ABSTRACTS
#1 Regulated expression of EAAT2 in normative human cerebral white matter development and in PVL  DeSilva, T. 
#2 Impact of inflammation on the perinatal brain: mechanisms of action  Favrais, G. 
#3 NF-B inhibition after neonatal cerebral hypoxia-ischemia: switching transcription factor use preserves cytokine production  Nijboer, C. 
#4 Dlx1 and Dlx2 control neuronal versus oligodendroglial cell fate acquisition iin the developing forebrain  Petryniak, MA. 
#5 Implantation of encapsulated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor-secreting cells prevents long-lasting learning impairment following neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain insult in rats  Katsuragi, S. 
#6 Briefly breathing xenon while cold is cool for the neonatal brain  Liu, X. 
#7 Impact of inhaled nitric oxide on white matter development inrat pups   Olivier P. 
#8 Erythropoietin as a neuroprotective agent in an ovine model of endotoxin-induced brain damage  Rees, S. 
#9 Neuroprotective actions of tetrahydrobiopterin against hypoxia-induced motor impairments in the fetal brain  Vasquez-Vivar, J. 
#10 Bax-dependent, but not cyclophilin D dependent, mitochondrial permeabilization contributes to neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury  Wang, X. 
#11 Multiple doses of erythropoietin provide long-term histological and behavioral protection following neonatal stroke  Gonzalez, F. 
#12 Effects of maternal melatonin administration on offspring of a precocial species subjected to near-term birth asphyxia  Hutton, LC. 
#13 Acid-sensitive ion channels and oxidative stress contribute to striatal neuron degeneration in hypoxic-ischemic piglets  Koehler, R. 
#14 Prostaglandin D2 protects neonatal mouse brain from hypoxic-ischemic injury   Taniguchi, H. 
#15 Effect of systemic administration of GSCF/SCF or FL on hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborn mice  Wegleiter, K. 
#16 Semi-automated segmentation of ADC reliably defines ischemic perinatal stroke injury  Ashwal, S. 
#17 Effects of adverse prenatal conditions on cerebral development: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantitative histopathology analysis  Camm, E.J. 
#18 Ultrasonic imaging assessment of cerebral blood flow changes during ischemia in 7-day-old rat and correlation with infarct volume  Deroide, N. 
#19 Regional pattern and time course of injury in near term rabbit fetal hypoxia-ischemia  Drobyshevsky, A. 
#20 Effect of reperfusion after cerebral ischemia in neonatal rats using diffusion-weighted MRI monitoring  Fau, S. 
#21 Deep grey matter and brainstem involvement detected on brain MRI in the term infant with neonatal encephalopathy (NE)  Gunny, R. 
#22 Characterization of cerebral white matter in preterm infants at term equivalent age using ADC, fractional anisotropy and T2  Hagmann, C.F. 
#23 Cerebral pathways for poor cognitive outcomes with prolonged ventilation in preterm infants  Shah, D. 
#24 Altered fractional anisotropy caused by neonatal hypoxia ischemia is a result of increased radial diffusivity in injured white matter  Stone, B. 
#25 Manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) detects inflammatory processes 6 weeks after hypoxia-ischemia (HI) in the neonatal rat brain  Wideroe, M. 
#26 Sub-clinical seizures are associated with the same degree of brain injury as clinical seizures in the hypoxic-ischemic newborn piglet   Bjorkman, ST. 
#27 Benefit of magnesium sulfate given before very preterm birth to protect infant brain with follow up at two years of age in preterm infants: the randomized controlled PREMAG Trial  Marret, S. 
#28 A randomised pilot feasibility study of therapeutic hypothermi for neonatal encephalopathy in a low resource setting in Equatorial Africa  Robertson, NJ. 
#29 Correlation of EEG background activity with seizures, mortality and MRI in infants with moderate-severe encephalopathy treated with whole-body hypothermia  Tsuchida, TN. 
#30 Astrogliosis and microgliosis patterns in diffuse and focal white matter lesions of preterm infants   C. Verney 
#31 Oxidative and Nitrative Injury to Cajal-Retzius and Subplate Neurons in PVL  Folkerth, R.D. 
#32 Behavioural state linkage and transition characteristics in the ovine fetus near term  Rao, N.M. 
#33 Characterization of pro- and anti-regenerative processes in the neonatal mouse brain  Maxwell, K 
#34 Vulnerability of the fetal cerebral vasculature to hypoxic stress: effects on smooth muscle differentiation and contractile phenotype  Injeti, E. 
# 35 Neonatal intermittent hypoxia alters brain development and behavior in mice  Bouslama, M. 
#36 Relationship of Anisotropy and Gyrification in Ferret Neurodevelopment   Barnette, A.R. 
#37 Bilateral cartoid artery occlusion as a model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury in the rat pup  Ashwal, S. 
#38 Quantitative measurement of muscle tone in neonatal rabbits after fetal hypoxia-ischemia  Drobyshevsky, A. 
#39 Turning behavior but not ultrasonic vocalization correlates with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats  Harada, K. 
#40 Neonatal assessment of efficacy and toxicity of neuroprotective treatments in newborn rodents: the PHENOPUPS project  Gallego, J. 
#41 Assessing the severity of hypoxia-ischemia using near-infrared oxygen consumption   Tichauer, K.M. 
#42 Cerebral Protein Synthesis in the Ovine Fetus Near-term with Induced Hyper and Hypo-Aminoacidemia  MacLachlan, J.N. 
#43 Electrocortical activity during repetitive umbilical cord occlusions with worsening acidemia in the ovine fetus near term  Keen, A.E. 
#44 "PCr recovery overshoot" in developing brain after transient hypoxia-ischaemia: relation to baseline energetics, insult severity and outcome  Iwata, O. 
#45 Longer echo times optimise proton MRS deep brain temperature measurement   Bainbridge, A. 
#46 Neurochemical profile in perinatal brain hypoxia-ischemia using advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy  Chatagner, A. 
#47 A role for FLIP ([Fas associated death domain like interleukin-1B-converting enzyme] - inhibitory protein) in neuroprotection induced by hypoxic preconditioning  Payton, K.S. 
#48 Neuroprotective effect of Sonic hedgehog signaling in glucocorticoid-induced neonatal cerebellar injury through an 11ßHSD-2 dependent mechanism  Heine, V.M. 
#49 Adual role of the NF-kappaB pathway in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage  Kavelaars, A. 
#50 Desflurane, isoflurane and sevoflurane produce effective but limited neuroprotection in a preconditioning paradigm in neonatal hypoxia-ischemia  McAuliffe, J.J. 
#51 Prenatal Exposure to Prescription Medications Alters Recovery Following Early Brain injury in Rats  Gibb, R. 
#52 Creatine administration during pregnancy decreases expression of apoptotic markers in the newborn spiny mouse brain following birth hypoxia: further evidence for the neuroprotective effects of prophylactic creatine  Ireland, Z. 
#53 HIF-1 deficient mice have increased brain injury after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia  Sheldon, R.A. 
#54 Haematopoietic growth factors in neonatal brain injury: Effect of G-CSF, SCF and FL on excitotoxic brain injury, short and long-term outcome  Neubauer, V. 
#55 IGF-II and IGF-1R in the preterm and near-term ovine fetal brain and the effect of intermittent umbilical cord occlusions  McCallum, J.D. 
#56 Erythropoietin attenuates hyperoxia-induced cell death and proteome changes in the developing brain  Kaindl, A.M. 
#57 Activated Src kinases interact with the NMDA receptor after neonatal brain ischemia  Jiang, X. 
#58 Low endogenous GRK2 sensitizes the immature brain to hypoxia-ischemia-induced gray and white matter damage  Heijnen, C.J. 
#59 Dextromethorphan is protective against sensitized NMDAR – mediated excitotoxic brain damage in the developing mouse brain  Griesmaier, E. 
#60 Knock out of P75NTR does not protect against NMDAR – mediated excitotoxic brain injury in newborn mice Griesmaier, E. 
#61 TRP601, a specific caspase-2 inhibitor, is neuroprotective after hypoxia-ischemia in neonatal rats  Rousset, C.I. 
#62 Targeting neonatal ischemic brain injury with a selective caspase-2 inhibitor  Chauvier, D. 
#63 Hypercapnic acidosis following hypoxia-ischaemia as neuroprotectant: is the time right for a clinical trial in the human newborn?  Colditz, P.B. 
#64 Treatment of newborns with severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy with transplantation of human neural precursor cells into a cerebral ventricle  Luan Zuo 
#64a Neonatal hypoxia/ischemia expands the numbers of neural stem cells in the subventricular zone by enhancing EGFR and IGF-1R responsiveness  Ziegler, A. 
#64b Intracranial injection of fetal membraneous mesemchimal stem cells improves prognosis following hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in neonatal rats brain  Ueda, K. 
#64c Regulated expression of VEGF by stem cells to improve outcome after ischemic stroke in infant piglets  Kuluz, J. 
#65 Developmental Timing of Maternal Inflammation Determines Fetal Survival and Neurologic Outcome: Possible Role for the Placenta  Carpentier, PA. 
#66 Adverse Neurodevelopment in Preterm Infants with Postnatal Sepsis or Necrotizing Enterocolitis is Mediated by White Matter Abnormality on Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Term  Shah, D. 
#67 Modulation of blood-brain barrier integrity after neonatal stroke by the cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant protein 1  Vexler, Z. 
#68 IL-1 and IL-18 expression by the neonatal brain in response to antenatal exposure to LPS and/or post-natal hypoxia-ischemia: contribution of maternally produced cytokines?  Girard, S. 
#69 Cerebral modulation of the TNF-alpha system in an animal model of antenatal inflammation and post-natal hypoxia-ischemia  Roy, M. 
#70 Role of MyD88 signaling in microglial responses to lipopolysaccharide in vitro  Dean, J.M. 
#71 MyD88 knockout mice exhibit neuroprotection in LPS-HI induced brain injury in neonatal mice.  Stridh, L. 
#72 Complement-derived peptide C3a reduces hippocampal brain injury after hypoxia-ischemia in neonatal mice  Puglisi, K. 
#73 Investigating the neuroprotective properties of erythropoietin in the retina and optic nerve using an ovine model of fetal inflammation   Loeliger, M. 
#74 The Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in Altered Fetal Neural Progenitor Proliferation and Differentiation  Dingman, A.L. 
#75 Sensitizing effects of pro-inflammatory cytokines on excitotoxic brain lesions : the key role of group 1 metabotropic receptors  Degos, V. 
#76 Stroke induces histamine accumulation and mast cell degranulation in the neonatal rat brain  Charriaut-Marlangue, C. 
#77 Galectin-3 in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury  Doverhag, C. 
#78 Neuroactive Steroids: Regulators of Normal Brain Development with Potential for Preventing Pre- and Perinatal Brain Damage?  Yawno, T. 
#79 Induction of vascular endothelial growth factor in the late gestation fetal brain following intrauterine hypoxia produced by umbilical cord occlusion  Baburamani, A.A. 
#80 VEGF expression and function in the subventricular zone after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia  Woodbury, J.M 
#81 Chronic prenatal hypoxia increases cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus but not the cerebellum or neocortex in the guinea pig  Tolcos, M. 
#82 X- linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein expression in the ischemic developing brain  Askalan, R. 
#83 Expression and localisation of P2X4R in the immature rat brain after hypoxia-ischemia  Buller, K.M. 
#84 Enhancement of autophagic cell death in a neonatal model of cerebral hypoxia-ischemia   Ginet, V. 
#85 Astrocytic demise after neonatal ischemia in the rat and human brain  Villapol, S. 
#86 Molecular cloning of rabbit xanthine oxidase and the developmental modulation of its expression in fetal brain  Yu, L. 
#87 The level of neuronal nitric oxide synthase is a critical determinant of neuronal death following fetal hypoxia-ischemia  Yu, L.