Longitudinal comparison of two severities of unilateral cervical spinal cord injury using magnetic resonance imaging in rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Mihai, Georgeta ^a   Nout, Yvette S ^a,b   Tovar, C Amy ^a   Miller, Brandon A ^a,b   Schmalbrock, Petra ^a   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a,b   Beattie, Michael S ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Secondary injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38549161223     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2007.0338     Document Type: Article

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