The affinity of lipid-coated microbubbles to maturing spinal cord injury sites

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1047-1053

  Kureshi, Inam U ^a,d   Ho, Shih Yieh ^a   Onyiuke, Hilary C ^a   Wakefield, Andrew E ^a   Kureshi, Ikram U ^c   D'Arrigo, Joseph S ^b   Simon, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b CAV CON Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Lipid coated microbubbles; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORAX; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CARBOCYANINES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TAIL; THORAX; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032911963     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199905000-00059     Document Type: Article

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