Procedural and strain-related variables significantly affect outcome in a murine model of focal cerebral ischemia

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-532

  Connolly Jr , E Sander ^a   Winfree, Christopher J ^a   Stern, David M ^a   Solomon, Robert A ^a   Pinsky, David J ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Focal; Hypothermia; Intraluminal; Mouse; Strain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030060152     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199603000-00021     Document Type: Article

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