Permanent, bilateral common carotid artery occlusion in the rat: A model for chronic cerebral hypoperfusion-related neurodegenerative diseases

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 162-180

  Farkas, Eszter ^a   Luiten, Paul G M ^b   Bari, Ferenc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carotid occlusion; Cerebral blood flow; Hippocampus; Learning; Rat; White matter

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RATS;

EID: 33947646259     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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