Dietary Docosahexaenoic Acid Improves Cognitive Function, Tissue Sparing, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Indices of Edema and White Matter Injury in the Immature Rat after Traumatic Brain Injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 390-402

  Schober, Michelle E ^a   Requena, Daniela F ^a   Abdullah, Osama M ^b   Casper, T Charles ^a   Beachy, Joanna ^a   Malleske, Daniel ^a   Pauly, James R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

^c University of Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

controlled cortical impact; DTI; Morris water maze; pediatric

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NITRATE; NITRITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DRUG EFFECTS; MAZE TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84958956554     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2015.3945     Document Type: Article

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