Progesterone treatment normalizes the levels of cell proliferation and cell death in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus after traumatic brain injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-81

  Barha, Cindy K ^a   Ishrat, Tauheed ^c   Epp, Jonathan R ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a,b   Stein, Donald G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampal neurogenesis; Progesterone; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; P 0130; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL FATE; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79961024077     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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