Effects of congenital HCMV infection on synaptic plasticity in dentate gyrus (DG) of rat hippocampus.

This study was carried out to investigate whether the congenital HCMV infection affect the induction and maintenance of LTP /DP. Rat models of Sprague-Dawley rats congenitally infected by HCMV were made. Field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were recorded in the hippocampal slices of offspring rats (50-65days) to study alterations of LTP /DP in area dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus after congenital infection.

The association of genetic polymorphisms with cerebral palsy: a meta-analysis.

Aim: The aim of our meta-analysis was to summarize quantitatively the association of genetic polymorphisms with cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: We identified 16 studies on the association of genetic polymorphisms with CP in Pubmed, Elsevier Science Direct, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang. Eleven of these studies (involving a total of 2533 cases and 4432 controls) were used in the current meta-analysis.