Characterizing infarction and selective neuronal loss following temporary focal cerebral ischemia in the rat: A multi-modality imaging study

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-132

  Ejaz, Sohail ^a   Williamson, David J ^a   Ahmed, Tahir ^a   Sitnikov, Sergey ^a   Hong, Young T ^a   Sawiak, Stephen J ^a   Fryer, Tim D ^a   Aigbirhio, Franklin I ^a   Baron, Jean Claude ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

11C flumazenil; Cerebral infarction; Cerebral ischemia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FLUMAZENIL C 11;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN NECROSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; GOLD STANDARD; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 84872781954     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: 1095953X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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