The quantitative assessment of functional impairment and its correlation to infarct volume in rats with transient middle cerebral artery occlusion

Brain Research

Volumn 1230, Issue , 2008, Pages 303-309

  Seong, Hoon Lim ^a   Jung, Soo Lee ^a   Jong, In Lee ^a   Im, Sun ^a   Young, Jin Ko ^a   Hye, Won Kim ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Behavior; Functional deficit; Infarct volume; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Motor activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREFOOT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; WEIGHT BEARING;

RATTUS;

EID: 54049091890     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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