Preferential neuroprotective effect of tacrolimus (FK506) on unmyelinated axons following traumatic brain injury

Brain Research

Volumn 1154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 225-236

  Reeves, Thomas M ^a   Phillips, Linda L ^a   Lee, Nancy N ^a   Povlishock, John T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound action potential; Corpus callosum; FK506; Neuroprotection; Traumatic axonal injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAVEFORM;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TACROLIMUS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34249856764     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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