Magnetic resonance imaging indicators of blood-brain barrier and brain water changes in young rats with kaolin-induced hydrocephalus

Fluids and Barriers of the CNS

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Del Bigio, Marc R ^a,b   Slobodian, Ili ^b   Schellenberg, Angela E ^a,c   Buist, Richard J ^a   Kemp Buors, Tanya L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MANITOBA INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density; Endothelium; Hydrocephalus; Magnetic resonance; Tissue water

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; KAOLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN WATER; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HYDROCEPHALUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; TISSUE WATER; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84862216986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-8118-8-22     Document Type: Article

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