Alterations in cerebral cortex microvessels and the microcirculation in a rat model of traumatic brain injury: A correlative EM and laser Doppler flowmetry study

Neurological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-347

  Rafols, José A ^a   Kreipke, Christian W ^a   Petrov, Theodor ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain trauma; Cerebral blood flow; Ultrastructure; Vascular tone

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547576126     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164107X204648     Document Type: Article

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