Morphological and neuro-behavioral parallels in the rat model of stroke

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-23

  Boyko, Matthew ^a   Ohayon, Sharon ^a   Goldsmith, Tomer ^a   Novack, Lena ^a   Novack, Victor ^a   Perry, Zvi H ^a   Gruenbaum, Benjamin F ^a   Gruenbaum, Shaun E ^b   Steiner, Oded ^a   Shapira, Yoram ^a   Teichberg, Vivian I ^c   Zlotnik, Alexander ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Neurological severity score; Rats; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL SEVERITY SCORE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955699136     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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