Technique of selective spinal cord cooling in rat: Methodology and application

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-106

  Marsala, Martin ^a   Galik, Jan ^b   Ishikawa, Toshizo ^c   Yaksh, Tony L ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Spinal cord hypothermia; Spinal cord ischemia; Spinal somatosensory evoked potentials; Subcutaneous cooling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HYPOTHERMIA; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030963887     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)02270-X     Document Type: Article

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