An infant mouse model of brain damage in pneumococcal meningitis

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 609-617

  Grandgirard, Denis ^a   Steiner, Oliver ^b   Täuber, Martin G ^a   Leib, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Infant rat model; Neuropathology; Paediatric infectious diseases; Pneumococcal meningitis

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASPASE 3; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE DEGENERATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 36349004263     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-007-0304-8     Document Type: Article

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