Improving treatments and outcomes: An emerging role for zinc in traumatic brain injury

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 410-413

  Cope, Elise C ^a   Morris, Deborah R ^a   Levenson, Cathy W ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Neuroprotection; Traumatic brain injury; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; ZINC;

ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; STRESS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZINC;

EID: 84863310362     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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