Nitric oxide levels in rat cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, and brainstem after impact acceleration head injury

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-34

  Tuzgen, Saffet ^a   Tanriover, Necmettin ^a   Uzan, Mustafa ^a,b   Tureci, Ercan ^a   Tanriverdi, Taner ^a   Gumustas, Koray ^a   Kuday, Cengiz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Impact acceleration model; Nitric oxide; Severe head injury

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037240606     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201085     Document Type: Article

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