Blast TBI models, neuropathology, and implications for seizure risk

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 APR, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kovacs, S Krisztian ^a   Leonessa, Fabio ^a   Ling, Geoffrey S F ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Blast; Histopathology; Neuropathology; Post traumatic epilepsy; Seizures; Tissue processing; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BLAST INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

EID: 84901064762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00047     Document Type: Review

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