Brain Injury and Recovery Following Binge Ethanol: Evidence from In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 846-854

  Zahr, Natalie M ^a,b   Mayer, Dirk ^b,c   Rohlfing, Torsten ^b   Hasak, Michael P ^b   Hsu, Oliver ^b   Vinco, Shara ^b   Orduna, Juan ^b   Luong, Richard ^d   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; imaging; liver; neurochemicals; rat; recovery; ventricular system

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHOLINE; CREATINE; ETHANOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TAURINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950369644     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.10.028     Document Type: Article

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