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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5429
World Ranking
8366
National Ranking
161

Best Publications

  • Intracellular application of horseradish peroxidase and its light and electron microscopical appearance in spinocervical tract cells.

    Elzbieta Jankowska;Jonas Rastad;Jan Westman

  • Somatosensory projection to the mesencephalon: An anatomical study in the monkey

    Mikael Wiberg;Jan Westman;Anders Blomqvist

  • Pathophysiology of brain edema and cell changes following hyperthermic brain injury.

    Hari Shanker Sharma;Jan Westman;Fred Nyberg

  • Involvement of nitric oxide in acute spinal cord injury: an immunocytochemical study using light and electron microscopy in the rat

    H.S Sharma;J Westman;Y Olsson;P Alm

  • Information Processing in the Somatosensory System

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  • Probable involvement of serotonin in the increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier by forced swimming. An experimental study using Evans blue and 131I-sodium tracers in the rat.

    H S Sharma;J Westman;J C Navarro;P K Dey

  • Brain derived neurotrophic factor and insulin like growth factor-1 attenuate upregulation of nitric oxide synthase and cell injury following trauma to the spinal cord. An immunohistochemical study in the rat

    H S Sharma;F Nyberg;J Westman;P Alm

  • Nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in the brain pathology of heat stress.

    Hari Shanker Sharma;Per Alm;Jan Westman

  • Tectal and thalamic projections of dorsal column and lateral cervical nuclei: a quantitative study in the cat.

    A. Blomqvist;R. Flink;D. Bowsher;S. Griph

  • Role of Nitric Oxide in Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability, Brain Edema and Cell Damage Following Hyperthermic Brain Injury. An Experimental Study Using EGB-761 and Gingkolide B Pretreatment in the Rat

    Hari Shanker Sharma;K. Drieu;P. Alm;J. Westman

  • Involvement of Nitric Oxide in the Pathophysiology of Acute Heat Stress in the Rat

    H. S. Sharma;J. Westman;P. Alm;P.-O. Sjöquist

  • Acute systemic heat stress increases glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity in brain: Experimental observations in conscious normotensive young rats

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  • Effects of glucose on the ultrastructure and insulin biosynthesis of isolated mouse pancreatic islets maintained in tissue culture.

    A. Andersson;J. Westman;C. Hellerström

  • Topical application of TNF-α antiserum attenuates spinal cord trauma induced edema formation, microvascular permeability disturbances and cell injury in the rat

    Hari Shanker Sharma;T. Winkler;E. Stålberg;T. Gordh

  • Role of Serotonin and Prostaglandins in Brain Edema Induced by Heat Stress. An Experimental Study in the Young Rat

    Hari Shanker Sharma;J. Westman;F. Nyberg;J. Cervos-Navarro

  • The projection to the mesencephalon from the sensory trigeminal nuclei. An anatomical study in the cat.

    Mikael Wiberg;Jan Westman;Anders Blomqvist

  • A serotonin synthesis inhibitor, p-chlorophenylalanine reduces the heat shock protein response following trauma to the spinal cord: an immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study in the rat.

    H.S. Sharma;Y. Olsson;J. Westman

  • Biomarkers of free radical injury during spinal cord ischemia

    Samar Basu;A. Hellberg;A. T. Ulus;Jan Westman

  • Neurotrophic factors influence upregulation of constitutive isoform of heme oxygenase and cellular stress response in the spinal cord following trauma. An experimental study using immunohistochemistry in the rat.

    H S Sharma;F Nyberg;T Gordh;P Alm

  • The lateral cervical nucleus in the cat IV. A light and electron microscopical study after midbrain lesions with demonstration of indirect wallerian degeneration at the ultra-structural level

    Gunnar Grant;Jan Westman

  • Arborization of initial axon collaterals of spinocervical tract cells stained intracellularly with horseradish peroxidase.

    Jonas Rastad;Elzbieta Jankowska;Jan Westman

  • Opioid receptor antagonists attenuate heat stress-induced reduction in cerebral blood flow, increased blood-brain barrier permeability, vasogenic edema and cell changes in the rat.

    H. S. Sharma;J. Westman;J. Cervós-Navarro;P. K. Dey

Frequent Co-Authors

Hari Shanker Sharma
Hari Shanker Sharma Uppsala University
Anders Blomqvist
Anders Blomqvist Linköping University
Elzbieta Jankowska
Elzbieta Jankowska University of Gothenburg
Espen Dietrichs
Espen Dietrichs Oslo University Hospital
Fred Walberg
Fred Walberg University of Oslo
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
D A McCrea
D A McCrea University of Manitoba

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