Sustained sensorimotor impairments after endothelin-1 induced focal cerebral ischemia (stroke) in aged rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Soleman, Sara ^a   Yip, Ping ^a   Leasure, J Leigh ^b   Moon, Lawrence ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Behavioural deficits; Endothelin 1; Plasticity; Preclinical models; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIN-1; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77649339641     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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