Predictable ventricular shift after focal cerebral ischaemia in rats: Practical considerations for intraventricular therapeutic interventions

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-78

  Lourbopoulos, A ^a   Grigoriadis, N ^a   Karacostas, D ^a   Spandou, E ^b   Artemis, N ^a   Milonas, I ^a   Tascos, N ^a   Simeonidou, C ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Method; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Oedema; Refinement of intraventricular stereotaxic coordinates; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STEREOTAXIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77950816798     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2009.009043     Document Type: Article

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