Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Development

ISBN-13: 9781493949083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 364 str.

David W. Walker

Spis treści

PART I:  DEVELOPMENT

Investigating Early Formation Of The Cerebral Cortex by In Utero Electroporation – Methods And Protocols

Peter Kozulin, Gonzalo Almarza, Ilan Gobius, and Linda J. Richards

 

 

2. In Utero Electroporation Methods in the Study of Cerebral Cortical Development

Isabel Martínez-Garay, Fernando García-Moreno, Navneet Vasistha, Andre Marques-Smith, and  Zoltán Molnár

 

 

3. Isolation of GABAergic Cortical Neurons and Implications for Cell Transplantation Strategies in the Nervous System

Hui Xuan Ng and Joanne M. Britto

 

4. Advanced EEG and MRI Measurements to Study the Functional Development of the Newborn Brain

Sampsa Vanhatolo and Peter Fransson 

 

5. Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements in the Neonatal Brain

Flora Wong 

 

6. Fetal Sleep and Spontaneous Behaviour in Utero: Animal and Clinical Studies

Dan Rurak

 

7. Circadian Rhythms in the Fetus and Newborn-Significance of Interactions with Maternal Physiology and the Environment

 Maria Serron-Ferre, Hans Richter, Dr Claudia Torres-Farfan

 

PART II: PROGRAMMING and STRESS

8. Prenatal Programming of the Mesolimbic Reward Pathway and Food Preferences

Beverley Muhlhausler and Jessica Gugusheff

 

 

9. Perinatal and Postnatal Determinants of Brain Development – Recent Studies and Methodological Advances

Sarah Spencer and Trish Jenkins

 

10. Models of Perinatal Compromises in the Guinea Pig - Their Use in Showing the Role of Neurosteroids in Pregnancy and the Newborn

Hannah K. Palliser, Greer A. Bennett , Meredith A Kelleher, Angela L. Cumberland, David W. Walker, and Jonathan J. Hirst

 

11. Placental Transport and Metabolism: Implications for the Developmental Effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) Antidepressants

Juan Velaquez and  Alexandre Bonnin

 

12. Studies on the Effects Prenatal Immune Activation on Postnatal Behaviour – Models of Developmental Origins of Schizophrenia?

Udani Ratnayake and Rachel Hill

 

 

PART III: BRAIN DAMAGE – CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES

13. Oligodendrocytes: Cells of Origin for White Matter Injury in the Developing Brain?

Mary Tolcos, David Rowitch, and Justin Dean

 

14. Prenatal Determinants of Brain Development – Recent Studies and Methodological Advances

Stephen Back and Roger Hohimer 

           

15. Using Pregnant Sheep to Model Developmental Brain Damage

Lotte G. van den Heuij, Guido Wassink, Alistair Jan Gunn, and Laura Bennet

 

16. A Procedure for Inducing Seizures in the Postnatal Rat

Helena Parkington and Harry Coleman

 

17. Origin and Detection of Neonatal Seizures – Animal and Clinical Studies

Tracey Bjorkmann

 

Blurb

This volume provides readers with an introduction to all the methods and major approaches now being used to study the structural and functional development of the brain. Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Development explores early anatomical development, the emergence of function, and the processes that lead to damage and repair of the growing and immature brain.  Chapters are divided into three sections covering development, programming and stress, and brain damage-causes and consequences. Written in the popular Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your own laboratory.

 

Concise and easy-to-use, Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Development aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.