Efficacy of N-acetyl cysteine in traumatic brain injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Eakin, Katharine ^a   Baratz Goldstein, Renana ^b   Pick, Chiam G ^b   Zindel, Ofra ^b   Balaban, Carey D ^c   Hoffer, Michael E ^d   Lockwood, Megan ^a   Miller, Jonathan ^a   Hoffer, Barry J ^a,e  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; TOPIRAMATE; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MAZE TEST; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN INJURIES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84899673970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090617     Document Type: Article

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