Comparison of silicon-coated nylon suture to plain nylon suture in the rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 161-165

  Shimamura, Norihito ^a   Matchett, Gerald ^a   Tsubokawa, Tamiji ^a   Ohkuma, Hiroki ^b   Zhang, John ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Intraluminal suture; Nylon; Silicon

Indexed keywords

NYLON; SILICON;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NYLONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON; SUTURES;

EID: 33747180872     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.02.017     Document Type: Article

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