Use of zinc as a treatment for traumatic brain injury in the rat: Effects on cognitive and behavioral outcomes

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 907-913

  Cope, Elise C ^a   Morris, Deborah R ^a   Scrimgeour, Angus G ^b   Levenson, Cathy W ^a  

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

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anhedonia; spatial memory; TBI; zinc supplementation

Indexed keywords

SACCHARIN; ZINC;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; ZINC;

EID: 84866310408     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311435337     Document Type: Article

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