A re-assessment of erythropoietin as a neuroprotective agent following rat spinal cord compression or contusion injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-136

  Pinzon, Alberto ^a   Marcillo, Alexander ^a   Pabon, Diego ^a   Bramlett, Helen M ^a   Bunge, Mary Bartlett ^a   Dietrich, W Dalton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BBB analysis; Erythropoietin; Neuroprotection; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANEURYSM CLIP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PARALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 49449094589     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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