The injured brain: TBI, mTBI, the immune system, and infection: Connecting the dots

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 364-368

  Griffin, Gerald Dieter ^a  

^a BiobancUSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFECTION; MICE;

EID: 79959808400     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00021     Document Type: Article

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