Traumatic brain injury induced neuroprotection of retinal ganglion cells to optic nerve crash

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1072-1082

  Ben Simon, Guy J ^a,b,c   Hovda, David A ^b   Harris, Neil G ^b   Gomez Pinilla, Fernando ^b   Goldberg, Robert A ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

BDNF; Cortical contusion; Neuroprotection; Optic nerve crush; Retinal ganglion cells; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33746765621     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2006.23.1072     Document Type: Article

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