Stroke-prone rats exhibit prolonged behavioral deficits without increased brain injury: An indication of disrupted post-stroke brain recovery of function

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-233

  Maguire, Sean ^a,b   Strittmatter, Robert ^a   Chandra, Sudeep ^a,c   Barone, Frank C ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^c MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain infarction; Cerebral focal ischemia; Hypertension; Magnetic resonance imaging; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Neurological recovery; Normotension; Rat strains; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

EID: 0347683378     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.079     Document Type: Article

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