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Animal Models of Ischemic Stroke. Part One: Modeling Risk Factors

Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability and death in developed and developing countries. As emerging disease, stroke related mortality and morbidity is going to step up in the next decades. This is both due to the poor identification of risk factors and persistence of un...

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Autores principales: Bacigaluppi, Marco, Comi, Giancarlo, Hermann, Dirk M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20802809
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874205X01004020026
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Hermann, Dirk M.
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description Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability and death in developed and developing countries. As emerging disease, stroke related mortality and morbidity is going to step up in the next decades. This is both due to the poor identification of risk factors and persistence of unhealthy habits, as well as to the aging of the population. To counteract the estimated increase in stroke incidence, it is of primary importance to identify risk factors, study their effects, to promote primary and secondary prevention, and to extend the therapeutic repertoire that is currently limited to the very first hours after stroke. While epidemiologic studies in the human population are essential to identify emerging risk factors, adequate animal models represent a fundamental tool to dissect stroke risk factors to their molecular mechanism and to find efficacious therapeutic strategies for this complex multi- factorial disorder. The present review is organized into two parts: the first part deals with the animal models that have been developed to study stroke and its related risk factors and the second part analyzes the specific stroke models. These models represent an indispensable tool to investigate the mechanisms of cerebral injury and to develop novel therapies.
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spelling pubmed-29289142010-08-27 Animal Models of Ischemic Stroke. Part One: Modeling Risk Factors Bacigaluppi, Marco Comi, Giancarlo Hermann, Dirk M. Open Neurol J Article Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability and death in developed and developing countries. As emerging disease, stroke related mortality and morbidity is going to step up in the next decades. This is both due to the poor identification of risk factors and persistence of unhealthy habits, as well as to the aging of the population. To counteract the estimated increase in stroke incidence, it is of primary importance to identify risk factors, study their effects, to promote primary and secondary prevention, and to extend the therapeutic repertoire that is currently limited to the very first hours after stroke. While epidemiologic studies in the human population are essential to identify emerging risk factors, adequate animal models represent a fundamental tool to dissect stroke risk factors to their molecular mechanism and to find efficacious therapeutic strategies for this complex multi- factorial disorder. The present review is organized into two parts: the first part deals with the animal models that have been developed to study stroke and its related risk factors and the second part analyzes the specific stroke models. These models represent an indispensable tool to investigate the mechanisms of cerebral injury and to develop novel therapies. Bentham Open 2010-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2928914/ /pubmed/20802809 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874205X01004020026 Text en © Bacigaluppi et al.; Licensee Bentham Open http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20802809
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874205X01004020026
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