Role of the blood-spinal cord barrier in posttraumatic syringomyelia: Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 696-704

  Hemley, Sarah J ^a   Tu, Jian ^a   Stoodley, Marcus A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood spinal cord barrier; Endothelial barrier antigen; Rat; Spinal cord injury; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIGEN; ENDOTHELIAL BARRIER ANTIGEN; EXCITOTOXIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SPINAL CORD BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; RAT; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNOIDITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PERMEABILITY; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 73249144281     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.6.SPINE08564     Document Type: Article

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