Rat injury model under controlled field-relevant primary blast conditions: Acute response to a wide range of peak overpressures

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1147-1160

  Skotak, MacIej ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Alai, Aaron ^a   Holmberg, Aaron ^a   Harris, Seth ^a   Switzer, Robert C ^b   Chandra, Namas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NeuroScience Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular membrane permeability; lung injury; mortality; pathophysiological response; primary blast; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERBARISM; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORTALITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; RAT; SHOCK WAVE; THORACIC CAVITY; TISSUE SECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AIR PRESSURE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLAST INJURIES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84878050687     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2652     Document Type: Article

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