The sensorimotor and cognitive deficits in rats following 90- and 120-min transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-204

  Zvejniece, Liga ^a   Svalbe, Baiba ^a,b   Liepinsh, Edgars ^a   Pulks, Eduards ^a,c   Dambrova, Maija ^a,c  

^a LATVIAN INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC SYNTHESIS   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^c RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Behavioural testing; Memory impairment; Sensorimotor deficit; Stroke; Transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROKE; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84862143575     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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