Mild sensory stimulation completely protects the adult rodent cortex from ischemic stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Lay, Christopher C ^a,b   Davis, Melissa F ^a,b   Chen Bee, Cynthia H ^a   Frostig, Ron D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPERFUSION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; STROKE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; STROKE;

EID: 77955324220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011270     Document Type: Article

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