Bacteremia causes hippocampal apoptosis in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Østergaard, Christian ^a,b   Leib, Stephen L ^c   Rowland, Ian ^d,e   Brandt, Christian T ^b,f  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; RAT; SEROTYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BACTEREMIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77349085584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-1     Document Type: Article

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