Article
[Carotid-basilar artery communication in gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Castro-Pacheco A, Foyo-Niembro E, Pérez-Pérez V, García-Hernández J, Grijalva I
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Since 1966 when Levine and Payan observed that the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) was unusually susceptible to cerebral infarction following occlusion of one or both common carotid arteries, the model has been used for the experimental study of cerebral ischemia. OBJECTIVE: To assess the presence of anterior-posterior arterial communication in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)....
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