title: Imaging selective vulnerability in the developing nervous system.
abstract: Why do cells in the central nervous system respond differently to different stressors and why is this response so age-dependent? In the immature brain, there are regions of selective vulnerability that are predictable and depend on the age when the insult occurs and the severity of the insult. This damage is both region and cell population specific. Vulnerable cell populations include the subplate neurons and oligodendrocyte precursors early in development and the neurons closer to the end of human gestation. Mechanisms of injury include excitotoxicity, oxidative stress and inflammation as well as accelerated apoptosis. Advanced imaging techniques have shown us particular patterns of injury according to age at insult. These changes seen in the newborn at the time of injury on magnetic resonance imaging correlate well with the neurodevelopmental outcome. New questions about how the injury evolves and how the newborn brain adapts and repairs itself have emerged as we now know that injury in the newborn brain can evolve over days and weeks, rather than hours. The ability to follow these processes has allowed us to investigate the role of repair in attenuating the injury. Neurogenesis and angiogenesis exist in response to ischemic injury and can be enhanced by processes that are known to protect the brain. The injury response in the developing brain is a complex process that evolves over time and is amenable to repair.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Newborn Brain Research Institute, University of California-San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0663, USA. donna.ferriero@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Donna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ferriero
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000254:growth & development; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods
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