Post-conditioning with lipopolysaccharide reduces the inflammatory infiltrate to the injured brain and spinal cord: a potential neuroprotective treatment.
Systemic infection often accompanies or precedes acute brain injury, but it remains unclear how the systemic response contributes to outcome. To examine this problem we have microinjected recombinant interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a cytokine associated with acute brain injury, into the rat brain pare...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2005
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