Cerebral uric acid increases following experimental traumatic brain injury in rat

Brain Research

Volumn 733, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 287-291

  Tayag, Emilio C ^a,c   Nair, Somnath N ^a   Wahhab, Samina ^a   Katsetos, Christos D ^a,d   Lighthall, James W ^b   Lehmann, John C ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GM Research Lab   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Microdialysis; Rat; Thalamus; Traumatic brain injury; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

URIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030590439     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00669-5     Document Type: Article

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