Is the spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rat a pertinent model of sub cortical ischemic stroke? A systematic review

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 434-444

  Bailey, Emma L ^a   Smith, Colin ^a   Sudlow, Cathie L M ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Blood brain barrier; Lacunar stroke; Pathology; Salt loading; SHRSP; Small vessel disease

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTERIOLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LACUNAR STROKE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; STROKE; STROKE PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE, LACUNAR; VASCULITIS;

EID: 80053196178     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2011.00659.x     Document Type: Review

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