TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurobiology of premature brain injury
AU - Salmaso, Natalina
AU - Jablonska, Beata
AU - Scafidi, Joseph
AU - Vaccarino, Flora M.
AU - Gallo, Vittorio
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by the US National Institutes of Health NINDS (P01 NS062686 and R01 NS060750 to F.M.V. and R01NS045702 to V.G.), NICHD (P30HD040677 to V.G.) and NIA (R21 AG034495 to FMV), and by grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (F.M.V.), the state of Connecticut (F.M.V.), Women’s Health Research at Yale (F.M.V.) and the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation (V.G.). N.S. is recipient of a Canadian Institute of Health Research fellowship. J.S. is the recipient of K08NS073793 (NINDS). We are particularly grateful to L. Ment for support and discussion. We thank J. Ritter for help with figures.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Every year in the United States, an estimated 500,000 babies are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation), and this number is rising, along with the recognition of brain injuries due to preterm delivery. A common underlying pathogenesis appears to be perinatal hypoxia induced by immature lung development, which causes injury to vulnerable neurons and glia. Abnormal growth and maturation of susceptible cell types, particularly neurons and oligodendrocytes, in preterm babies with very low birth weight is associated with decreased cerebral and cerebellar volumes and increases in cerebral ventricular size. Here we reconcile these observations with recent studies using models of perinatal hypoxia that show perturbations in the maturation and function of interneurons, oligodendrocytes and astroglia. Together, these findings suggest that the global mechanism by which perinatal hypoxia alters development is through a delay in maturation of affected cell types, including astroglia, oligodendroglia and neurons.
AB - Every year in the United States, an estimated 500,000 babies are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation), and this number is rising, along with the recognition of brain injuries due to preterm delivery. A common underlying pathogenesis appears to be perinatal hypoxia induced by immature lung development, which causes injury to vulnerable neurons and glia. Abnormal growth and maturation of susceptible cell types, particularly neurons and oligodendrocytes, in preterm babies with very low birth weight is associated with decreased cerebral and cerebellar volumes and increases in cerebral ventricular size. Here we reconcile these observations with recent studies using models of perinatal hypoxia that show perturbations in the maturation and function of interneurons, oligodendrocytes and astroglia. Together, these findings suggest that the global mechanism by which perinatal hypoxia alters development is through a delay in maturation of affected cell types, including astroglia, oligodendroglia and neurons.
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U2 - 10.1038/nn.3604
DO - 10.1038/nn.3604
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24569830
AN - SCOPUS:84896863216
SN - 1097-6256
VL - 17
SP - 341
EP - 346
JO - Nature Neuroscience
JF - Nature Neuroscience
IS - 3
ER -