A new approach to reduce the number of animals used in experimental focal cerebral ischemia models

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 386, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 88-93

  Burggraf, Dorothe ^a   Martens, Helge K ^a   Liebetrau, Martin ^b   Vosko, Milan R ^a   Dichgans, Martin ^a   Hamann, Gerhard F ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DR HORST SCHMIDT KLINIKEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Experimental ischemia; Micro Western blot; Rat

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; HEMOGLOBIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMISPHERE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCALPEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 23044502630     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.05.045     Document Type: Article

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