Progesterone treatment shows benefit in a pediatric model of moderate to severe bilateral brain injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Geddes, Rastafa I ^a   Sribnick, Eric A ^a   Sayeed, Iqbal ^a   Stein, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; MALE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84900308662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087252     Document Type: Article

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