Sub-concussive brain injury in the Long-Evans rat induces acute neuroinflammation in the absence of behavioral impairments

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-152

  Shultz, Sandy R ^a   MacFabe, Derrick F ^a   Foley, Kelly A ^a   Taylor, Roy ^a   Cain, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal model; Fluid percussion injury; Learning and memory; Mild traumatic brain injury; Neuroinflammation; Sub concussive brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AXONAL INJURY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; ENCEPHALITIS; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY; LONG EVANS RAT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856074942     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

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