Positive impact of pre-stroke surgery on survival following transient focal ischemia in hypertensive rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-308

  Ord, Emily N J ^a   Shirley, Rachel ^a   van Kralingen, Josie C ^a   Graves, Alice ^a   McClure, John D ^a   Wilkinson, Michael ^b   McCabe, Christopher ^b   Macrae, I Mhairi ^b   Work, Lorraine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Closed skull stroke model; Cranial burrhole; Hypertensive rat; Survival; Transient focal ischemia

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL BURRHOLE; DUROTOMY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STAINING; STROKE PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; STROKE; TREPHINING;

EID: 84868371863     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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