Rodent model of direct cranial blast injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2155-2169

  Kuehn, Reed ^a   Simard, Philippe F ^b   Driscoll, Ian ^a   Keledjian, Kaspar ^b   Ivanova, Svetlana ^b   Tosun, Cigdem ^b   Williams, Alicia ^a   Bochicchio, Grant ^b,c   Gerzanich, Volodymyr ^b   Simard, J Marc ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

amyloid precursor protein caspase 3; primary blast injury; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN REGION; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIRECT CRANIAL BLAST INJURY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; OXIMETRY; POSTURAL BALANCE; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 80054725328     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1532     Document Type: Article

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