Effects of timing of dexamethasone treatment on the outcome of collagenase-induced intracerebral hematoma in rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 444-448

  Savard, Claudine ^b   Lema, Pablo Patricio ^a   Hélie, Pierre ^b   Vachon, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Department of Microbiology and Pathology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; COLLAGENASES; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NECROSIS; NEURONS; NEUTROPHILS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449984872     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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