Motor impairment and neuronal damage following hypothermia in tropical amphibians

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Daló, Nelson L ^a,b   Bracho, Gustavo A ^b   Piña Crespo, Juan C ^b  

^a Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado ^*  (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Brain cooling; Cold exposure; Cold injury; Hypothermia; Neuronal damage

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CYTOPLASM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHERMIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL REFLEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BUFO MARINUS; CELL DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS; REWARMING; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846439405     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: 13652613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2006.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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