Correlation of in vivo and ex vivo 1H-MRI with histology in two severities of mouse spinal cord injury

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Noristani, Harun N ^a   Lonjon, Nicolas ^a,b   Cardoso, Maïda ^a   Le Corre, Marine ^a,b   Chan Seng, Emilie ^a,b   Captier, Guillaume ^c   Privat, Alain ^a   Coillot, Christophe ^d   Goze Bac, Christophe ^d   Perrin, Florence E ^a,e  

^a Montpellier University Medical Center   (France)

^b GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^c LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Ex vivo MRI; Histology; In vivo MRI; Mice; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 84927713904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00024     Document Type: Article

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