Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Behavioral Analysis of Immature Rats with Kaolin-Induced Hydrocephalus: Pre- and Postshunting Observations

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 256-264

  Del Bigio, Marc R ^a   Crook, Cathy R ^a   Buist, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KAOLIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HYDROCEPHALUS; KAOLIN; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAZE LEARNING; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031263652     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6644     Document Type: Article

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