Complications and pitfalls in rat stroke models for middle cerebral artery occlusion: A comparison between the suture and the macrosphere model using magnetic resonance angiography

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2372-2377

  Gerriets, Tibo ^a,b   Stolz, Erwin ^a,b   Walberer, Maureen ^a,b   Müller, Clemens ^a   Rottger, Carina ^b   Kluge, Alexander ^a   Kaps, Manfred ^b   Fisher, Marc ^c   Bachmann, Georg ^a  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperthermia; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUTURE;

ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIGATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSPHERES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TITANIUM;

EID: 4744352158     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000142134.37512.a7     Document Type: Article

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