Three-vessel occlusion using a micro-clip for the proximal left middle cerebral artery produces a reliable neocortical infarct in rats

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-220

  Yanamoto, Hiroji ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^b   Kikuchi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral infarction; Ischemic neuronal death

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIGATION; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0031763306     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(98)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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