Structural and functional alterations of cerebellum following fluid percussion injury in rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-112

  Ai, Jinglu ^a   Liu, Elaine ^a   Park, Eugene ^a   Baker, Andrew J ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Climbing fiber; Purkinje cell death; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID PERCUSSION INJURY; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33846694630     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0654-9     Document Type: Article

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