Accumulation of connective tissue growth factor+ cells during the early phase of rat traumatic brain injury

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yuqi ^a   Liu, Zongwei ^a   Li, Xiaoming ^a   Luo, Bangwei ^a   Xiong, Jian ^a   Gan, Woting ^a   Jiang, Man ^a   Zhang, Zhiyuan ^b   Schluesener, Hermann J ^b   Zhang, Zhiren ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Connective tissue growth factor; Traumatic brain injury; Weight drop model

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWIS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SCAR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CICATRIX; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

EID: 84903870066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-9-141     Document Type: Article

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