Steroid concentrations in plasma, whole blood and brain: Effects of saline perfusion to remove blood contamination from brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Taves, Matthew D ^a   Schmidt, Kim L ^a   Ruhr, Ilan M ^a   Kapusta, Katarzyna ^b   Prior, Nora H ^a   Soma, Kiran K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PRASTERONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ERYTHROCYTE; FINCH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; ISCHEMIA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ERYTHROCYTES; ESTROGENS; FINCHES; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERFUSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78650823664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015727     Document Type: Article

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