Traumatic brain injury results in acute rarefication of the vascular network

Abstract The role of the cerebrovascular network and its acute response to TBI is poorly defined and emerging evidence suggests that cerebrovascular reactivity is altered. We explored how cortical vessels are physically altered following TBI using a newly developed technique, vessel painting. We tes...

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Main Authors: Andre Obenaus, Michelle Ng, Amanda M. Orantes, Eli Kinney-Lang, Faisal Rashid, Mary Hamer, Richard A. DeFazio, Jiping Tang, John H. Zhang, William J. Pearce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00161-4