Effectiveness of a new modified intraluminal suture for temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats of various weight

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-234

  Lourbopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Karacostas, Dimitris ^a   Artemis, Nikolaos ^a   Milonas, Ioannis ^a   Grigoriadis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain infarction; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Rat; Stroke; Suture

Indexed keywords

POLYLYSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 48049121741     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.06.018     Document Type: Article

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