Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries II: Injury and Mechanistic Assessments, Volume 1 (Springer Protocols Handbooks)

The successful previous volume on this topic provided a detailed benchwork manual for the most commonly used animal models of acute neurological injuries including cerebral ischemia, hemorrhage, vasospasm, and traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. __Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries II: Injury and Mechanistic Assessments__ aims to collect chapters on assessing these disorders from cells and molecules to behavior and imaging. These comprehensive assessments are the key for understanding disease mechanisms as well as developing novel therapeutic strategies to ameliorate or even prevent damages to the nervous system. __Volume 1__ examines general assessments in morphology, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, neurobehavior, and neuroimaging, as well as extensive sections on subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral vasospasm, and intracerebral hemorrhage. Designed to provide both expert guidance and step-by-step procedures, chapters serve to increase understanding in what, why, when, where, and how a particular assessment is used. Accessible and essential, __Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries II: Injury and Mechanistic Assessments__ will be useful for trainees or beginners in their assessments of acute neurological injuries, for experienced scientists from other research fields who are interested in either switching fields or exploring new opportunities, and for established scientists within the field who wish to employ new assessments. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Front Matter....Pages 3-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-52 Front Matter....Pages 53-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-121 Front Matter....Pages 123-132 Back Matter....Pages 133-133 ....Pages 135-160