Tapered progesterone withdrawal enhances behavioral and molecular recovery after traumatic brain injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 423-429

  Cutler, Sarah M ^a,c   Pettus, Edward H ^b   Hoffman, Stuart W ^c   Stein, Donald G ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Clinic B   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Apoptosis; Inflammation; Progesterone; Traumatic brain injury (TBI); Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYPROPYL BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN EXTRACT; CASPASE 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN C FOS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BETA-CYCLODEXTRINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 24744445146     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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