Repeated Mild Lateral Fluid Percussion Brain Injury in the Rat Causes Cumulative Long-Term Behavioral Impairments, Neuroinflammation, and Cortical Loss in an Animal Model of Repeated Concussion

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to Dr. Donald P. Cain, a scholarship from NSERC to Dr. Sandy R. Shultz, and a grant from CIHR to Dr. Arthur Brown. We thank Drs. R. Sutton and D. Hovda, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, for training. Additional thanks go to Drs. K.-P. Ossenkopp and D. MacFabe, and to F. Boon, L. Tichenoff, and R. Taylor for technical assistance. Dr. Sandy R. Shultz is now at the Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.