This is the longer "chronic" query I thought was lost. re-posting in
hopes of getting good leads from people who missed it before.
Frank
(F. Frank LeFever) writes:
>>>I am looking for CHRONIC studies. Ideally, fluid percussion procedure
>(rats), mild vs. moderate vs. severe grades, with animals looked at
>several months later. Ideally, neurochemical, histological, and
>behavioral data.
>>But I'll take what I can get. Will not reject human studies
>(especially if you know of some I would not have found via
>Medline--Abstracts, works in progress, non-indexed journals, etc.),
but
>I am looking especially for chronic rat or other animal studies.
>>At Society for Neuroscience (Nov. 96), Linda Phillips presented data
on
>rats surviving 30 days, but this is truly unusual, so far as I can
see.
> Most studies involve sacrifice after a day or so, rarely more than a
>week after trauma.
>>I have posted a request for info on "serial lesion" or "priming" or
>"preconditioning" studies with intervals longer than the traditional
>ones (i.e. the ones looking at acute priming effects), but ANY
paradigm
>with long survival times is welcome.
>>For replies too long for email: FAX usa (914) 947-3350
>>F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
>Helen Hayes Hospital
>West Haverstraw, NY 10993, USA
