Contusion, dislocation, and distraction: Primary hemorrhage and membrane permeability in distinct mechanisms of spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-266

  Choo, Anthony M ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Lam, Clarrie K ^a   Dvorak, Marcel ^a   Tetzlaff, Wolfram ^a   Oxland, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal model; Biomechanics; Dextran; Injury mechanism; Membrane; Rat; Spinal cord injury; Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; GRAY MATTER; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODEL; DISLOCATION; PATHOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTUSIONS; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISLOCATIONS; FLUORESCEIN; HEMORRHAGE; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 34047158711     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2007.6.3.255     Document Type: Article

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