Chronic folic acid administration confers no treatment effects in either a high or low dose following unilateral controlled cortical impact injury in the rat

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 291-302

  Vonder Haar, Cole ^a   Emery, Michael A ^a   Hoane, Michael R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

neurotoxicity; recovery of function; therapeutic; traumatic brain injury; Vitamin therapy

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL LOSS; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; FOLIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84863905461     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-110196     Document Type: Article

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