The role of excitotoxic injury in post-traumatic syringomyelia

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 883-893

  Brodbelt, Andrew R ^a   Stoodley, Marcus A ^a   Watling, Amy ^a   Rogan, Christopher ^a   Tu, Jian ^a   Brown, Christopher J ^c   Burke, Seán ^b   Jones, Nigel R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arachnoiditis; Excitotoxic amino acids; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rat; Spinal cord trauma; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

KAOLIN; QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0141790061     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089771503322385818     Document Type: Article

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