A modified controlled cortical impact technique to model mild traumatic brain injury mechanics in mice

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 JUN, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, YungChia ^a   Mao, Haojie ^b   Yang, King H ^b   Abel, Ted ^c   Meaney, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Controlled cortical impact; Glia reactivity; Mild traumatic brain injury; Strain rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AXONAL INJURY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DISEASE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; ROTAROD TEST; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84904413353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00100     Document Type: Article

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