Spinal cord ischemic injury: Development of a new model in the rat

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2532-2538

  Kanellopoulos, Georgios K ^a   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Hsu, Chung Y ^a   Kouchoukos, Nicholas T ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Aorta; Histology; Paraplegia; Rats; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 0031440517     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.12.2532     Document Type: Article

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