A novel closed-head model of mild traumatic brain injury caused by primary overpressure blast to the cranium produces sustained emotional deficits in mice

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 JAN, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Heldt, Scott A ^a   Elberger, Andrea J ^a   Deng, Yunping ^a   Guley, Natalie H ^a   Mar, Nobel Del ^a   Rogers, Joshua ^a   Choi, Gy Won ^a   Ferrell, Jessica ^a   Rex, Tonia S ^a,b   Honig, Marcia G ^a   Reiner, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Fear; Mice; Mild TBI

Indexed keywords

THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BLAST INJURY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FEAR LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREPULSE INHIBITION; SKULL; STARTLE REFLEX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84893466765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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