Does human cytomegalovirus cause productive infection and neuronal injury in differentiating fetal human central nervous system neuroepithelial precursor cells?
Neuroepithelial precursor cells and differentiating astrocytes and neurons are permissive to cytopathic HCMV infection, suggesting that the fetal human central nervous system is vulnerable to HCMV-induced neuronal injury at its earliest stages of development.
Our data indicated that preoperative inhalation of milrinone significantly mitigated CPB-related inflammation.