Production of cytokines following brain injury: Beneficial and deleterious for the damaged tissue

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-136

  Morganti Kossman, M C ^a   Lenzlinger, P M ^a   Hans, V ^a   Stahel, P ^b   Csuka, E ^a   Ammann, E ^a   Stocker, R ^a   Trentz, O ^a   Kossmann, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; Astrocytes; Blood brain barrier; Brain injury; Interleukins; Nerve growth factor; Transforming growth factor beta; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030903563     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000227     Document Type: Article

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