Transient spinal ischemia in the rat: Characterization of behavioral and histopathological consequences as a function of the duration of aortic occlusion

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 526-535

  Marsala, Martin ^a,b   Yaksh, Tony L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic occlusion; Hyperesthesia; Ischemia; Paraplegia; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERESTHESIA; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028354189     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.1994.65     Document Type: Article

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