Fischer-344 rats are unsuitable for the MCAO filament model due to their cerebrovascular anatomy

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 50-54

  Dittmar, Michael S ^a   Vatankhah, Bijan ^a   Fehm, Nando P ^a   Schuierer, Gerhard ^b   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^a   Horn, Markus ^a,c   Schlachetzki, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Neuroradiology   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Bad Hersfeld   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal; Carotid artery; Cerebral ischemia; Disease models; Focal; Internal; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FISCHER 344 RAT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33747188955     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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