Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology & Developmental Biology, The Neonatal Research Center of the Children's Discovery & Innovation Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752, United States of America. Electronic address: [Email]
We examined Red Blood Cell (RBC) Glucose Transporter isoform 1 (GLUT1) and White Blood Cell (WBC) Glucose Transporter isoform 3 (GLUT3) protein concentrations to assess their potential as surrogate biomarkers for the presence of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and response to therapeutic hypothermia (TH), with respect to the neurodevelopmental prognosis.