Rodent neonatal germinal matrix hemorrhage mimics the human brain injury, neurological consequences, and post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-78

  Lekic, Tim ^a   Manaenko, Anatol ^a   Rolland, William ^a   Krafft, Paul R ^a   Peters, Regina ^a   Hartman, Richard E ^b   Altay, Orhan ^a   Tang, Jiping ^a   Zhang, John H ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b School of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Experimental; Germinal matrix hemorrhage; Hydrocephalus; Mental retardation; Neonatal rats; Neurological dysfunction; Stroke

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; 4 HYDROXYNONENAL; COLLAGENASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FREE RADICAL; HEMOGLOBIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; THROMBIN; VITRONECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD COMPONENT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOREBRAIN; GERM LAYER; GERMINAL MATRIX BLEEDING; GLIOSIS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFLAMMATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 84861715600     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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