title: Monoamine metabolites and ventricular fluid pressure in children.
abstract: Samples of ventricular CSF were obtained from 20 children in whom ventricular fluid pressure was continuously monitored. The concentrations of the monoamine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindolylacetic acid, homovanillic acid and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol, in the CSF were not related to the ventricular fluid pressure. The mean concentration of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol was higher (p less than 0.01) in 9 children aged 1 day to 6 months that in 12 children aged 8 months to 11 years.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006018:Glycols / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D006719:Homovanillic Acid / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008297:Male; D008734:Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D010648:Phenylacetates / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*
chemical_list: D006018:Glycols; D010648:Phenylacetates; D008734:Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid; D006719:Homovanillic Acid