Fuel Supply to the Brain During the Early Postnatal Period
Fuel Supply to the Brain During the Early Postnatal Period
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10.1007/978-1-4615-9567-0_19
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1990
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J. Medina;E. Fernández;J. Bolaños;C. Vicario;C. Arizmendi
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作者:
J. Medina;E. Fernández;J. Bolaños;C. Vicario;C. Arizmendi
Perinatal time spans over three periods so called the gestational, suckling and weaning period. Gestation ends in the labor which interrupts maternal supply of metabolic substrates giving way to an autonomous metabolism. The fuel supply is rapidly regained by the milk nutrients which supply the newborn with the energy and carbon skeletons required for its development. However, immediately after birth and before the onset of suckling takes place there is a time lapse during in which the newborn has to withstand a unique starvation. This period, herewith referred to the presucking period, is a consequence of incompatibility of the first strokes of ventilation and suckling itself, although more probably it is due to the time elapsed to the compulsory change in the metabolic substrates from the womb to the mammary glands. Nevertheless, during the presuckling period, the newborn has to survive from its own reserves during an unique period of stress and vulnerability. To get through this short but difficult period, the fetus accumulates important energy reserves and adapts its metabolic machinery to the expected changes in its surroundings; the period devoted to this preparation can be called “prepartum” (Figure 1).