Bacterial meningitis causes two distinct forms of cellular damage in the hippocampal dentate gyrus in infant rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 481-488

  Bifrare, Yoeng Delphine ^a   Gianinazzi, Christian ^a   Imboden, Hans ^a   Leib, Stephen L ^a   Täuber, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Brain injury; Sequelae

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CASPASE 3; NITRONE DERIVATIVE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NITROGEN OXIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037899314     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10142     Document Type: Article

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