Moderate traumatic brain injury causes acute dendritic and synaptic degeneration in the hippocampal dentate gyrus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Gao, Xiang ^a   Deng, Ping ^a   Xu, Zao C ^a   Chen, Jinhui ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GOLGI STAIN; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC DENSITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; C57BL MOUSE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GOLGI COMPLEX; INJURY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DENTATE GYRUS; GOLGI APPARATUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; PERFUSION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052747341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024566     Document Type: Article

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