Prenatal Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound Impacts Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in Rats

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1051-1057

  Yang, Feng Yi ^a   Lin, Guan Liang ^a   Horng, Shih Cheng ^b   Chen, Ran Chou ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Cerebellum; Cerebrum; Embryonic development; Permeability; Prenatal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRUM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BIOACOUSTICS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; RATS;

ULTRASONICS;

EVANS BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; EVANS BLUE; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860486864     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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