Treatment with low-dose methamphetamine improves behavioral and cognitive function after severe traumatic brain injury.
RatTBIFluid percussionWistarMale3 hours after injury
Model: Lateral fluid percussion injury producing severe traumatic brain injury
Low-dose methamphetamine significantly reduced neurological severity scores and foot faults, restored learning and memory to near normal, reduced hippocampal apoptotic cell death at 48 h and increased the number of immature neurons in the dentate gyrus compared with saline controls.
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