A novel mouse model of penetrating brain injury

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cernak, Ibolja ^a   Wing, Ian D ^b   Davidsson, Johan ^c   Plantman, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Gliosis; Histology; Models of injury; Neurodegeneration; Penetrating ballistic like brain injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIOSIS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ROTAROD TEST; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84925294614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00209     Document Type: Article

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