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Non-Nutritive Suck Burst Pattern Stability In Extremely Premature Infants, Alejandra Marquez
Non-Nutritive Suck Burst Pattern Stability In Extremely Premature Infants, Alejandra Marquez
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The development of non-nutritive suck (NNS) burst dynamics in preterm infants reflects the integrity of the brain and is used clinically to assess feeding readiness and orofacial motor development (Mizuno and Ueda, 2005). The application of NNS analytics in the present report represents one outcome measurement set that is part of an ongoing clinical trial involving extremely preterm infants (EPI’s,[GA]) randomized to receive either pulsed orocutaneous stimulation therapeutics or a sham (blind pacifier), in conjunction with salivary sampling twice weekly to map gene expression of key proteins involved in neural development and molecular sensing of feeding related pathways in the …