Evaluation of learning and memory dysfunction and histological findings in rats with chronic stage contusion and diffuse axonal injury

Brain Research

Volumn 752, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 151-160

  Yamaki, Tarumi ^a   Murakami, Nobukuni ^a   Iwamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Sakakibara, Takehiko ^a   Kobori, Nobuhide ^a   Ueda, Satoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Tetsuro ^b   Uwahodo, Yasufumi ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

cortical contusion; diffuse axonal injury; entorhinal cortex; hippocampus; learning acquisition; memory retention; water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SWIMMING;

EID: 0030898597     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01469-2     Document Type: Article

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