Radiation-induced brain injury: A review

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 2 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Greene Schloesser, Dana ^a   Robbins, Mike E ^a   Peiffer, Ann M ^a   Shaw, Edward G ^a   Wheeler, Kenneth T ^a   Chan, Michael D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Hippocampal changes; Metastatic brain tumor; Pathogenesis; Radiation induced

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; DONEPEZIL; FENOFIBRATE; GELATINASE A; INDOMETACIN; MEMANTINE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLPHENIDATE; PIOGLITAZONE; PLACEBO; RAMIPRIL; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; VASCULOTROPIN;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MICROGLIA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROANATOMY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURVIVAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84871531489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00073     Document Type: Review

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