Direct experimental occlusion of the distal middle cerebral artery induces high reproducibility of brain ischemia in mice

Experimental Animals

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-29

  Kuraoka, Mutsuki ^a   Furuta, Takahisa ^b   Matsuwaki, Takashi ^a   Omatsu, Tsutomu ^a   Ishii, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kyuwa, Shigeru ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common carotid artery occlusion; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIA CELL; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIGATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 62349134811     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.58.19     Document Type: Article

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