Nature Medicine
4, 157 - 158 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0298-157
Finding the failure mechanism in Sudden Infant Death SyndromeRonald M. Harper1
& Richard Bandler2
1Dept. of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA
2Dept of Anatomy and Histology and Dept. of Pain Management and Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Recent results showing decreased receptor binding in the brainstem of children with SIDS are consistent with a primary cardiovascular failure in this syndrome.
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