Inadvertent Occlusion of the Anterior Choroidal Artery Explains Infarct Variability in the Middle Cerebral Artery Thread Occlusion Stroke Model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  McLeod, Damian D ^a   Beard, Daniel J ^a   Parsons, Mark W ^a,b   Levi, Christopher R ^a,b   Calford, Mike B ^a   Spratt, Neil J ^a,b  

^a HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Hunter New England Local Health District   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR CHOROIDAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; RATS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884256081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075779     Document Type: Article

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