Use of telemetry blood pressure transmitters to measure intracranial pressure (ICP) in freely moving rats

Current Neurovascular Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Silasi, Gergely ^a   MacLellan, Crystal L ^b   Colbourne, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure sensor; Ischemia; Rodent; Stroke; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EDEMA; CANNULA; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKULL; STROKE; TELEMETRY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 61849130190     PISSN: 15672026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720209787466046     Document Type: Article

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