Repeated mild traumatic brain injury results in long-term white-matter disruption

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 715-723

  Donovan, Virginia ^a   Kim, Claudia ^b   Anugerah, Ariana K ^b   Coats, Jacqueline S ^c   Oyoyo, Udochuwku ^c   Pardo, Andrea C ^c   Obenaus, Andre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon caliber; Bilateral injury; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Myelin

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIECTOMY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYELIN SHEATH; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECURRENCE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84897571904     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.6     Document Type: Article

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