A non-surgical model of cervical spinal cord injury induced with focused ultrasound and microbubbles

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 235, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-100

  Oakden, Wendy ^a   Kwiecien, Jacek M ^b   O'Reilly, Meaghan A ^c   Lake, Evelyn M R ^a   Akens, Margarete K ^a,d   Aubert, Isabelle ^a,c   Whyne, Cari ^c,e   Finkelstein, Joel ^a,e   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,c   Stanisz, Greg J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Canada   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; Histopathology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microbubbles; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTUSION; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; ULTRASOUND; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; INJURIES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CERVICAL CORD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GADOLINIUM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84904497808     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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