Acute, post-ischemic sensorimotor deficits correlate positively with infarct size but fail to predict its occurrence and magnitude after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-35

  Senda, Dalton Makoto ^a   Franzin, Simone ^a   Mori, Marco Aurélio ^a   Oliveira, Rúbia Maria Weffort de ^a   Milani, Humberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute neuro score; Cerebral Regional ischemia; Correlation analysis; Infarct size; Intraluminal filament model; Prediction; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 78149410931     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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