The site of embolization related to infarct size, oedema and clinical outcome in a rat stroke model - further translational stroke research

Experimental and Translational Stroke Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Overgaard, Karsten ^a   Rasmussen, Rune S ^a   Johansen, Flemming F ^b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STROKE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 79961238528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20407378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-7378-2-17     Document Type: Article

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