Immediate splenectomy decreases mortality and improves cognitive function of rats after severe traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-147

  Li, Mei ^a   Li, Fei ^a   Luo, Chunxia ^a   Shan, Youan ^a   Zhang, Lijun ^a   Qian, Zhongming ^b   Zhu, Gang ^a   Lin, Jiangkai ^a   Feng, Hua ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Cognitive function; Mortality; Splenectomy; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WATER CONTENT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960407038     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181f30fc9     Document Type: Article

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