Mechanical characterization of the injured spinal cord after lateral spinal hemisection injury in the rat

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1747-1757

  Saxena, Tarun ^a,b   Gilbert, Jeremy ^a,b   Stelzner, Dennis ^c   Hasenwinkel, Julie ^a,b  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

glial scar; Kohlrausch, Williams, and Watts model; mechanical properties; spinal cord injury; stress relaxation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; RAT; SCAR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84861988812     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.1818     Document Type: Article

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