Progesterone Exacerbates Short-Term Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury on Supragranular Responses in Sensory Cortex and Over-Excites Infragranular Responses in the Long Term

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 375-389

  Allitt, Benjamin J ^a   Johnstone, Victoria P A ^a,b   Richards, Katrina ^a   Yan, Edwin B ^a   Rajan, Ramesh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

diffuse TBI; electrophysiology; neuronal encoding; progesterone; sensory cortex

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LAYER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIRING RATE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SHORT TERM SURVIVAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84958999588     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2015.3946     Document Type: Article

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