Ethnopharmacological relevance Danshen is a crude herbal drug isolated from dried roots
of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge. This plant is widely used in oriental medicine for the treatment …

Oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptotic neuronal cell death are cardinal mechanisms
involved in the cascade of acute ischemic stroke. Lercanidipine apart from calcium channel …

Objective: Monitoring hemodynamic and vascular changes in the acute stages of mouse
stroke models is invaluable in studying ischemic stroke pathophysiology. However, there …

High-density speckle contrast optical tomography (SCOT) utilizing tens of thousands of
source-detector pairs, was developed for in vivo imaging of blood flow in small animals. The …

Following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI), timely transport to a hospital can significantly
improve the prognosis for recovery. There is, however, a dearth of quantitative biomarkers …

Background: Maintenance of brain circulation during shock is sufficient to prevent
subcortical injury but the cerebral cortex is not spared. This suggests area-specific …

Changes of Cortical Perfusion in the Early Phase of Subarachnoid Bleeding in a Rat Model
and the Role of Intracranial Hypertensi Page 1 PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH • ISSN 0862-8408(print) …

Neural activity is an important biomarker for the presence of neurodegenerative diseases,
cerebrovascular alterations, and brain trauma; furthermore, it is a surrogate marker for …

This chapter will discuss the variability in infarct size after ischaemic stroke in rat models of
stroke, drawing example from our experience with the thread occlusion model. We will …

The primary purpose of this work is to optimize the illumination parameters used for laser
speckle imaging and investigate how spatial modulation of the light used for illumination can …