Neural grafting to experimental neocortical infarcts improves behavioral outcome and reduces thalamic atrophy in rats housed in enriched but not in standard environments

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1225-1232

  Mattsson, Bengt ^b   Sørensen, Jens Christian ^b   Zimmer, Jens ^b   Johansson, Barbro B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain tissue transplantation; Hypertension; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Rats; Stroke outcome

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN; FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THALAMUS; TISSUE GRAFT; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0030963071     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.6.1225     Document Type: Article

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