Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries II

“This an atlas-text ‘protocols’ step by stepexplanation of animal cerebral ischemia, brain trauma, & spinal cordinjury. … I recommend this book for ischemia and trauma students and physiologystudents.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, October, 2015)

• Introduction (Parts I-III).- Morphological Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia: Viable Cells.- Morphological Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia: Degenerated Cells.- Morphological Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia: Electron Microscopy.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia: mRNA.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia: Protein.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Global Cerebral Ischemia.- Assessment of Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus after Global or Focal Ischemia.- Infarct Measurement in Focal Cerebral Ischemia: TTC Staining.- Morphological Assessments of Focal Cerebral Ischemia: White Matter Injury.- Blood Flow Reduction: Laser Doppler, 14C-IAP.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Focal Cerebral Ischemia: mRNA and MicroRNA.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Focal Cerebral Ischemia: Protein.- Assessments of Inflammation After Focal Cerebral Ischemia.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Focal Cerebral Ischemia: Sensorimotor Deficit.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Focal Cerebral Ischemia: Cognitive Deficit.- Assessment of Neurogenesis in Models of Focal Cerebral Ischemia.- Assessment of Angiogenesis in Models of Focal Cerebral Ischemia.- Morphological Assessments of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia: In Situ Cell Degeneration.- Morphological Assessments of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia: White Matter Injury.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia: Cell Signaling.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia: Inflammation.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia.- Assessment of Neurogenesis and White Matter Regeneration.- Assessments for Traumatic Brain Injury:  An Introduction.- Morphological Assessments of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Assessment of Cerebral Vascular Dysfunction after Traumatic Brain Injury.- Assessment of Membrane Permeability After Traumatic Brain Injury.- Assessment of Neurogenesis by BrdU Labeling After Traumatic Brain Injury.- Electrophysiological Approaches in Traumatic Brain Injury.- Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Assessments of Oxidative Damage and Lipid Peroxidation after Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Vestibular Assessments Following Traumatic Brain Injury.- Introduction on Assessments for Spinal Cord Injury.- Morphological Assessments Following Spinal Cord Injury.- Assessment of Lesion and Tissue Sparing Volumes Following Spinal Cord Injury.- Retrograde Axonal Tract Tracing.- Anterograde Axonal Tract Tracing.- Assessments of Gliogenesis After Spinal Cord Injury.- Assessing Microvessels After Spinal Cord Injury.- Physiological Assessment of Spinal Cord Injury.- Electrophysiological Assessment of Spinal Cord Function on Rodents Using tcMMEP and SSEP.- Operant Conditioning of Spinal Cord Reflexesin Rats.- Cellular and Molecular Biological Assessments of Inflammation and Autoimmunity After Spinal Cord Injury.- Neurobehavioral Assessments of Spinal Cord Injury.- Basso, Beattie, and Bresnahan (BBB) Scale Locomotor Assessment Following Spinal Cord Injury and Its Utility as a Criterion for Other Assessments.- High Speed Video Recording Used for the Analysis of Hand Shaping in Over Ground Walking, Cylinder Exploration, Skilled Reaching, and Rung Walking in Rats.- Automated Gait Analysis Following Spinal Cord Injury.- Forelimb Functional Assessments of Rats and Mice After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.- Swimming as an Assessment of Hindlimb Function in Animals with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.- Neuroimaging Assessment of Spinal Cord Injury in Rodents.