Cerebrovascular Effects of Intrauterine Hypoxia: Contribution to Perinatal Brain Injury

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/545925

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

During pregnancy, delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the growing fetus is sometimes disturbed, and can lead to injury of the developing brain. In this project we investigate the idea that low oxygen (hypoxia) causes brain demage to blood vessels in the fetal brain, and new blood vessesl produced in an attempt to repair this damage are fragile and prone to rupture, explaining the high incidence of bleeding in the brain of prematurely-born and full term infants that experience birth hypoxia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $579,138.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public health nutrition

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Angiogenesis | Cerebral perfusion | Fetal brain | Perinatally acquired brain injury | Vascular Reactivity | Vascular injury and perinatal white matter injury | Vascular origins of perinatal brain damage | Vascular remodelling in the fetal brain following asphyxia

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