Rodent Models of Stroke - Dirnagl, Ulrich; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2010)
From Bedside to Bench: How Clinical Reality Should Instruct Stroke Modeling -- How to Avoid Bumping into the Translational Roadblock -- Modeling Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Rodents: Introduction and Overview -- Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Mouse and Rat Using the Intraluminal Suture-Filament Model -- Focal Ischemia Models: Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Induced by Electrocoagulation, Occluding Devices, and Endothelin-1 -- Rodent Models of Thromboembolic Stroke -- Photochemical and Endothelin Models of Focal Brain Ischemia -- Housing in an Enriched Environment: A Tool to Study Functional Recovery After Experimental Stroke -- Modeling Risk Factors and Confounding Effects in Stroke -- Effect of Anesthesia in Stroke Models -- Noninvasive Brain Imaging in Small Animal Stroke Models: MRI and PET -- Non-invasive Optical Imaging in Small Animal Models of Stroke -- Behavioral Testing in Mouse Models of Stroke -- Behavioral Testing in Rodent Models of Stroke -- Histology and Infarct Volume Determination -- Ethics of Modeling of Cerebral Ischemia in Small Animals -- Quality Control and Standard Operating Procedures -- Statistics in Experimental Stroke Research: From Sample Size Calculation to Data Description and Significance Testing -- Complexities, Confounders, and Challenges in Experimental Stroke Research: A Checklist for Researchers and Reviewers.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Animal models in research; Neurosciences; Animal Models