A rat model of severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
Author(s) -
Philip H. Schwartz,
Walid F. Massarweh,
Harry V. Vinters,
Claude G. Wasterlain
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.23.4.539
Subject(s) - medicine , hippocampal formation , dentate gyrus , neocortex , ischemia , hypoxia (environmental) , brain damage , common carotid artery , anesthesia , infarction , hippocampus , pathology , ligation , carotid arteries , chemistry , organic chemistry , psychiatry , oxygen , myocardial infarction
Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury is a common problem with severe neurological sequelae. In this report we describe in detail a simple model of hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat that gives rise to severe neocortical infarction and to selective hippocampal neuronal necrosis.
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