Effects of antioxidant treatment on blast-induced brain injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Du, Xiaoping ^a   Ewert, Donald L ^a   Cheng, Weihua ^a   West, Matthew B ^a   Lu, Jianzhong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Floyd, Robert A ^b   Kopke, Richard D ^a,b,c  

^a HOUGH EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DISULFONYL ALPHA PHENYL TERTIARY BUTYL NITRONE; 4 HYDROXYNONENAL; ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ANTIOXIDANT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

AMYLOIDOGENIC PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GENICULATE BODIES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RATS;

EID: 84892415586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080138     Document Type: Article

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