Post-traumatic hypoxia exacerbates brain tissue damage: Analysis of axonal injury and glial responses

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1997-2010

  Hellewell, Sarah C ^a,b   Yan, Edwin B ^a,b   Agyapomaa, Doreen A ^a,b   Bye, Nicole ^a,b   Morganti Kossmann, M Cristina ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

astrocytes; hypoxia; inflammation; macrophages; microglia; traumatic axonal injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHLORDANE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; TISSUE INJURY;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIOSIS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTIC ACID; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78649349894     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2009.1245     Document Type: Article

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