Melatonin as an adjunct to therapeutic hypothermia in a piglet model of neonatal encephalopathy: A translational study

Therapeutic hypothermia is only partially protective for neonatal encephalopathy; there is an urgent need to develop treatments that augment cooling. Our objective was to assess safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of 5 and 15 mg/kg/24 h melatonin (proprietary formulation) administered at 2 h and 2...

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Main Authors: Nicola J. Robertson, Kathryn Martinello, Ingran Lingam, Adnan Avdic-Belltheus, Christopher Meehan, Daniel Alonso-Alconada, Sara Ragab, Alan Bainbridge, Magdalena Sokolska, Mohamed Tachrount, Benita Middleton, David Price, Mariya Hristova, Xavier Golay, Annamaria Soliani Raschini, Giancarlo Aquino, Nicola Pelizzi, Fabrizio Facchinetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996118302547