Posthypoxic cooling of neonatal rats provides protection against brain injury

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Thoresen, Marianne ^a,c   Bågenholm, Ralph ^b   Løberg, Else Marit ^a   Apricena, Fabio ^a   Kjellmer, Ingemar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hypothermia; Ischaemia; Newborn; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHERMIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030053369     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.74.1.f3     Document Type: Article

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