Quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals a potential relationship between radiation-induced changes in rat brain metabolites and cognitive impairment

Radiation Research

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 574-581

  Atwood, Todd ^a   Payne, Valerie S ^a   Zhao, Weiling ^a   Brown, William R ^a   Wheeler, Kenneth T ^a   Zhu, Jian Ming ^a   Robbins, Michael E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FISCHER 344 RAT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 38449092156     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0735.1     Document Type: Article

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