Diffusion-Weighted MRI and quantitative biophysical modeling of hippocampal neurite loss in chronic stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Vestergaard Poulsen, Peter ^a   Wegener, Gregers ^b   Hansen, Brian ^a   Bjarkam, Carsten R ^b   Blackband, Stephen J ^c   Nielsen, Niels C ^a   Jespersen, Sune N ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL MODEL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; DIFFUSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURITES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959790427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020653     Document Type: Article

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