Traumatic brain injury: clinical and pathological parameters in an experimental weightdrop model Lesão cerebral traumática: parâmetros clínicos e patológicos em um modelo experimental de queda de peso

PURPOSE: To investigate the function of an experimental cranium trauma model in rats. METHODS: The equipment, already described in the literature and under discreet adaptations, is composed by a platform that produces closed head impact controlled by weight drop with pre-defined and known energy. 25...

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Main Authors: Danilo dos Santos Silva, José Nazareno Pearce de Oliveira Brito, Jerúsia Oliveira Ibiapina, Marcel Fernando Miranda Batista Lima, Andréa Ribeiro Gonçalves de Vasconcelos Medeiros, Bárbara Hamedy Carvalho e Queiroz, Vanessa Olímpio de Melo Guedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Cirurgia 2011-04-01
Series:Acta Cirurgica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-86502011000200004