Hypothermia prior to decompression: Buying time for treatment of acute spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1357-1368

  Batchelor, Peter E ^a   Kerr, Nicole F ^a   Gatt, Amy M ^a   Aleksoska, Elena ^a   Cox, Susan F ^a   Ghasem Zadeh, Ali ^b   Wills, Taryn E ^a   Howells, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioral recovery; decompression; hypothermia; neuroprotection; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTUSIONS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LOCOMOTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955861071     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1360     Document Type: Article

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