Comparison between coated vs. uncoated suture middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat as assessed by perfusion/diffusion weighted imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 412, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 185-190

  Bouley, James ^a   Fisher, Marc ^a   Henninger, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Diffusion weighted imaging; Focal cerebral ischemia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion weighted imaging; Suture middle cerebral artery occlusion

Indexed keywords

SILICON; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COATED SUTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STAINING; SUTURING METHOD; UNCOATED SUTURE;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SUTURES; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846230616     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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