Progesterone facilitates cognitive recovery and reduces secondary neuronal loss caused by cortical contusion injury in male rats.

Roof, R L

Progesterone facilitates cognitive recovery and reduces secondary neuronal loss caused by cortical contusion injury in male rats. [electronic resource] - Experimental neurology Sep 1994 - 64-9 p. digital

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

0014-4886

10.1006/exnr.1994.1147 doi


Analysis of Variance
Animals
Brain Edema--prevention & control
Brain Injuries--pathology
Cerebral Cortex--pathology
Cognition--drug effects
Contusions
Female
Male
Maze Learning--drug effects
Nerve Degeneration--drug effects
Neurons--drug effects
Progesterone--pharmacology
Pseudopregnancy--pathology
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Sex Characteristics
Thalamus--pathology