High-dose ascorbic acid administration improves functional recovery in rats with spinal cord contusion injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 803-808

  Yan, M ^a   Yang, M ^a   Shao, W ^b   Mao, X G ^a   Yuan, B ^a   Chen, Y F ^a   Ye, Z X ^a   Liang, W ^a   Luo, Z J ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery 359 Hospital of Chinese PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE BRESNAHAN LOCOMOTOR RATING SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOOTPRINT TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD CONTUSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE NECROSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LOCOMOTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929412205     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2014.135     Document Type: Article

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