[edited by] Josef Neu ; consulting editor, Richard A. Polin.
1st ed.
Philadelphia :
Saunders/Elsevier,
c2008.
xv, 365 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
27 cm.
Neonatology questions and controversies
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gastrointestinal development: morphogenesis and molecular mechanisms / Robert Montgomery -- Dietary regulation of gene expression / Ian Sanderson -- The exocrine pancreas / Steven Werlin, Alan Mayer -- Innate immunity and epithelial biology: special considerations in the neonatal gut / Patricia Lin, Andrew S. Neish -- The intestinal microbiota and the microbiome / Erika Claud, W. Allan Walker -- Intestinal barrier function: implications for the neonate and beyond / Ricardo Caicedo ... [et al.] -- Intestine as a neuroendocrine organ / Carol Lynn Berseth -- Trophic factors in the neonatal gastointestinal tract / Douglas G Burrin, Michael Janeczko -- Cholestasis in neonates and infants / Michael K. Davis, Joel M. Andres -- Mechanisms of protein synthesis and degradation / Tracy Gautsch Anthony, Susan Hazels Mitmesser -- Non-invasive techniques to monitor nutrition in neonates / Dominique Darmaun, Jean-Christophe Rozé -- Nutritional requirements of the very low birthweight infant / Patti J. Thureen, William W. Hay, Jr. -- Macro and micronutrients / Frank R. Greer -- Divers roles of lipids in neonatal physiology and development / Nancy Auestad -- NEC / Josef Neu, Martha Douglas-Escobar -- Short bowel syndrome / J. Marc Rhoads -- Adult consequences of neonatal and fetal nutrition: mechanisms / Robert Lane, Dustin Braunreiter, Clotilde Desrobert -- Short bowel syndrome and intestinal tissue engineering / Mike K. Chen.