Fluorescent microsphere technique to measure cerebral blood flow in the rat

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2162-2170

  De Visscher, Geofrey ^a   Haseldonckx, M ^b   Flameng, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 34248654837     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.332     Document Type: Article

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