Blast overpressure in rats: Recreating a battlefield injury in the laboratory

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 827-840

  Long, Joseph B ^a   Bentley, Timothy L ^a   Wessner, Keith A ^a   Cerone, Carolyn ^a   Sweeney, Sheena ^a   Bauman, Richard A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal injury; Blast; Hemorrhage; Learning and memory; Protective vest; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD VOLUME; COGNITION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HEMORRHAGIC HYPOTENSION; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; THORAX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; POLYMERS; PRESSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THORACIC INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

EID: 67849088429     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2008.0748     Document Type: Article

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