Journal of Neurotrauma

ABSTRACT One of the goals of our laboratory is to examine how the presence of drugs of abuse will influence traumatic brain injury. Previous studies in our laboratory have shown that cocaine or lidocaine treatment before experimental fluid percussion ...

ABSTRACT The present experiment was designed to evaluate and correlate the time course of blood–brain barrier (BBB) integrity and cerebral edema in adult male rats given medial frontal cortex contusions. The effect of sex hormones on BBB integrity in the ...

ABSTRACT Behavioral assessment after spinal cord contusion has long focused on open field locomotion using modifications of a rating scale developed by Tarlov and Klinger (1954). However, on-going modifications by several groups have made interlaboratory ...

ABSTRACT Potassium channel blockade by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) has been shown to initiate modest levels of functional recovery in spinal-injured dogs and people following intravenous administration; however, the relevant central nervous system (CNS) ...

ABSTRACT The relation between the degree of spinal cord compression and the extent of early posttraumatic reaction of astrocytes was investigated in rats using the blocking-weight technique to induce a spinal cord compression at the level of the Th_8–9. ...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to show that independence of self care activities of motor complete quadriplegic patients related better to the force of contraction of the wrist extensor (WE) muscles measured by a hand held myometer than to the ...

ABSTRACT This study was designed to evaluate the production of cerebral edema [as measured by tissue specific gravity (SpG)] following moderate fluid percussion (FP) and cortical impact (CI) injury in rodents. To determine the effects of a secondary ...

ABSTRACT In this study we examined the temporal response of microglia and macrophages to mild head injury in the rat. Microglia and macrophages were identified by their distinct morphology and by immunophenotype. With regard to the latter, antibodies to ...