Variation in Behavioral Deficits and Patterns of Recovery After Stroke Among Different Rat Strains

Translational Stroke Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 569-576

  Kunze, Allison ^a   Zierath, Dannielle ^a   Drogomiretskiy, Olga ^a   Becker, Kyra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Neglect; Outcome; Rotarod; Rotations; Strains; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL STROKE; LEWIS RAT; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905595560     PISSN: 18684483     EISSN: 1868601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12975-014-0337-y     Document Type: Article

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