Nicotine attenuates morphological deficits in a contusion model of spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 240-251

  Ravikumar, R ^a   Fugaccia, Isabella ^a   Scheff, Stephen W ^a   Geddes, James W ^a   Srinivasan, Cidambi ^a   Toborek, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Neuroprotection; Nicotine; Spinal cord injury; Tissue sparing

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINE TARTRATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE AND BRESNAHAN LOCOMOTOR RATING SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 14744303681     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2005.22.240     Document Type: Article

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