Interleukin-18 does not influence infarct volume or functional outcome in the early stage after transient focal brain ischemia in mice

Experimental and Translational Stroke Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Braeuninger, Stefan ^a   Kleinschnitz, Christoph ^a   Stoll, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WILD TYPE;

EID: 77953200044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20407378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-7378-2-1     Document Type: Article

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