Predicting unconsciousness from a pediatric brain injury threshold

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 388-395

  Zhu, Qiliang ^a   Prange, Michael ^a   Margulies, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal injury; Biomechanics; Finite element analysis; Pediatric traumatic brain injury; Tissue injury threshold

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CALCULATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TISSUE INJURY; VELOCITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUS SCROFA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 33748174671     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094165     Document Type: Article

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