Impact depth and the interaction with impact speed affect the severity of contusion spinal cord injury in rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 1985-1997

  Lam, Cameron J ^a,b   Assinck, Peggy ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^b   Tetzlaff, Wolfram ^b,c   Oxland, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; DISEASE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84914164042     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3392     Document Type: Article

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