Improved behavioral outcomes after progesterone administration in aged male rats with traumatic brain injury

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-71

  Wali, Bushra ^a   Sayeed, Iqbal ^a   Stein, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; male rats; progesterone; recovery of function; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN NECROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951937638     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2011-0579     Document Type: Article

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