Magnesium attenuates persistent functional deficits following diffuse traumatic brain injury in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-44

  Vink, Robert ^a   O'Connor, Christine A ^a   Nimmo, Alan J ^b   Heath, Deanne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deficits; Diffuse axonal injury; Magnesium; Neurotrauma

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STRESS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037426714     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01244-2     Document Type: Article

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