Arterial pulsation-dependent perivascular cerebrospinal fluid flow into the central canal in the sheep spinal cord

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 686-693

  Stoodley, Marcus A ^a,b   Brown, Sally A ^a   Brown, Christopher J ^a   Jones, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

arterial pulsations; central spinal canal; cerebrospinal fluid; perivascular space; sheep; syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SHEEP; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0030995093     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.86.4.0686     Document Type: Article

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