Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) levels in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid after meningitis induced by Streptococcus pneumoniae

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 467, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-219

  Barichello, Tatiana ^a   dos Santos, Ivonete ^a   Savi, Geovana D ^a   Florentino, Anelise F ^a   Silvestre, Cintia ^a   Comim, Clarissa M ^a   Feier, Gustavo ^a   Sachs, Daniela ^b   Teixeira, Mauro M ^b   Teixeira, Antonio L ^b,c   Quevedo, João ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia Translacional em Medicina   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CNS; Meningitis; Streptococcus pneumoniae; TNF

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENINGES; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 70449389158     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.039     Document Type: Article

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