Use of fetal cortical grafts in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-141

  Elsayed, M Hany ^a   Hogan, Thomas P ^a   Shaw, Pamela L ^a   Castro, Anthony J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN REGION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0343703485     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

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