A comparative study of variables influencing ischemic injury in the longa and koizumi methods of intraluminal filament middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Morris, Gary P ^a,b   Wright, Amanda L ^a   Tan, Richard P ^a,c   Gladbach, Amadeus ^b   Ittner, Lars M ^b,d   Vissel, Bryce ^a,b,e  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; COLORING AGENT; TETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KOIZUMI METHOD; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LONGA METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REPERFUSION INJURY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DISEASE MODEL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLORING AGENTS; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; REPERFUSION INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS;

EID: 84960532777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148503     Document Type: Article

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