The cognitive and histopathological effects of chronic 4-vessel occlusion in rats depend on the set of vessels occluded and the age of the animals

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 378-387

  Barros, Carla Aparecida ^a   Ekuni, Roberta ^a   Moro, Marco Aurélio ^a   Pereira, Francine Martins ^a   Pereira, Marli Aparecida Dos Santos ^a   Milani, Humberto ^a  

^a Universidade Estadual de Maringa Centro de Ciencias da Saude Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic 4 vessel occlusion; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Neuronal damage; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CAROTID ARTERY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA INJURY; SHAM PROCEDURE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CELL COUNT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 58149326823     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.023     Document Type: Article

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