Post-traumatic seizures exacerbate histopathological damage after fluid-percussion brain injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Bao, Ying Hui ^a,c   Bramlett, Helen M ^a,b   Atkins, Coleen M ^a   Truettner, Jessie S ^a   Lotocki, George ^a   Alonso, Ofelia F ^a   Dietrich, W Dalton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

epilepsy; immunohistochemistry; neuronal cell death; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PENTETRAZOLE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL LOSS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCUSSION; RAT; RATING SCALE; SEIZURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 78651372342     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1383     Document Type: Article

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