Measurement of cerebral microvessel diameters after embolic stroke in rat using quantitative laser scanning confocal microscopy

Brain Research

Volumn 876, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Morris, Daniel C ^a   Davies, Kenneth ^a   Zhang, Zhenggang ^a   Chopp, Michael ^a,b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral Ischemia; Confocal microsopy; Rat; Stroke; Three dimensional image analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034623186     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02543-9     Document Type: Article

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