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. 2011 Jan;53(1):66-73.
doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2010.09.003. Epub 2010 Oct 8.

Inflammation-related proteins in the blood of extremely low gestational age newborns. The contribution of inflammation to the appearance of developmental regulation

Alan Leviton  1 , Raina Fichorova, Yoshika Yamamoto, Elizabeth N Allred, Olaf Dammann, Jonathan Hecht, Karl Kuban, Thomas McElrath, T Michael O'Shea, Nigel Paneth
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Inflammation-related proteins in the blood of extremely low gestational age newborns. The contribution of inflammation to the appearance of developmental regulation

Alan Leviton et al. Cytokine. 2011 Jan.

Abstract

Background: We wanted to assess to what extent concentrations of circulating proteins appear to be developmentally regulated, and to what extent such regulation is influenced by intra-uterine inflammation.

Methods: We measured 22 proteins in blood obtained on postnatal days 1, 7, and 14 from 818 children born before the 28th week of gestation for whom we also had information about placenta morphology.

Results: Within the narrow gestational age range of this sample, some protein concentrations increase in blood with increasing gestational age. More commonly, the concentrations of inflammation-related proteins decrease with increasing gestational age. We observed this inverse pattern both in children whose placenta was and was not inflamed. CONCLUSIONS/INFERENCES: Regardless of whether or not the placenta is inflamed, the concentrations of inflammation-related proteins in early blood specimens appear to be developmentally regulated with the most common pattern being a decrease with increasing gestational age.

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