Spinal cord blood flow and blood vessel permeability measured by dynamic computed tomography imaging in rats after localized delivery of fibroblast growth factor

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2041-2053

  Kang, Catherine E ^a,b   Clarkson, Richard ^c   Tator, Charles H ^d   Yeung, Ivan W T ^c,d   Shoichet, Molly S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

blood flow; computed tomography scanning; growth factors; traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HYALURONIC ACID; LAMININ; METHYLCELLULOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BODY SURFACE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAINING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXCIPIENTS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GELS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLCELLULOSE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649342665     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1345     Document Type: Article

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