The intraluminal thread model revisited: Rat strain differences in local cerebral blood flow

Neurological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-52

  Prieto, Ruth ^a   Carceller, Fernando ^a   Roda, José María ^a   Avendaño, Carlos ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Focal cerebral ischemia; India ink perfusion; Intraluminal thread model; Laser Doppler flowmetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PARIETAL LOBE; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CIRCULATION TIME; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARBON; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13244268342     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164105X18214     Document Type: Article

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