Differential effects of injury severity on cognition and cellular pathology after contusive brain trauma in the immature rat

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-257

  Huh, Jimmy W ^a   Widing, Ashley G ^b   Raghupathi, Ramesh ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; caspases; children; cognition; contusion; infants; neurodegeneration; traumatic axonal injury; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSIVE BRAIN TRAUMA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951684276     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1639     Document Type: Article

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