Experimental brain damage from fluid pressure due to impact acceleration : study of effects of "contre-coup type" pressure changes intracranially in rabbits.

The aim of the study was to (1) design a model for production of intracranial impact acceleration fluid pressures with the "contre-coup" type pressure changes elicited intracranially in laboratory animals; (2) control and record extracranial mechanics in relation to intracranial mechanics in the developed model; and (3) evaluate some physiological and morphological responses in relation to various extracranial and intracranial mechanical parameters produced in the model.