Intravital imaging in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats-a pilot study

Experimental and Translational Stroke Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Niklass, Solveig ^a   Stoyanov, Stoyan ^b   Garz, Cornelia ^a   Bueche, Celine Z ^b   Mencl, Stine ^c   Reymann, Klaus ^b,d   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b,d   Carare, Roxana O ^e   Kleinschnitz, Christoph ^c   Schreiber, Stefanie ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 PM; CSVD; Intravital imaging; SHRSP

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LASER FLUORESCENCE DEVICE; MALE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STAINING; STROKE PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THROMBUS; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84892696341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20407378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-7378-6-1     Document Type: Article

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