Improvement of cognitive deficits and decreased cholinergic neuronal cell loss and apoptotic cell death following neurotrophin infusion after experimental traumatic brain injury

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 511-518

  Sinson, Grant ^a   Perri, Brian R ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Flamm, Eugene S ^a   McIntosh, Tracy K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cognitive dysfunction; fluid percussion injury; nerve growth factor; rat; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031020222     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.86.3.0511     Document Type: Article

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