Therapeutic hypothermia in experimental models of focal and global cerebral ischemia and intracerebral hemorrhage

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1255-1268

  Nagel, Simon ^b,c   Papadakis, Michalis ^b   Hoyte, Lisa ^a   Buchan, Alastair M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focal cerebral ischemia; Global ischemia; Hypothermia; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Neuroprotection; Rodents; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49449111775     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.8.8.1255     Document Type: Review

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