Long-term behavioral assessment of function in an experimental model for ischemic stroke

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-257

  Encarnacion, Angelo ^a   Horie, Nobutaka ^a   Keren Gill, Hadar ^a   Bliss, Tonya M ^a   Steinberg, Gary K ^a   Shamloo, Mehrdad ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CatWalk; Ischemic stroke; Long term functional recovery; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Rat strain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 79952538493     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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