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A novel embolic stroke model resembling lacunar infarction following proximal middle cerebral artery occlusion in beagle dogs
- Source :
- Journal of neuroscience methods. 209(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- It is estimated that lacunar infarcts account for 25% of all ischemic strokes, but its exact etiology is still on debating. The existing controversies include whether the embolisms can indeed cause lacunar stroke in humans or animal models. We hypothesized that lacunar infarction can be induced by the proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA) segmental occlusion involving the orifices of lenticulostriate arteries in animal models, which have abundant distal cerebral collateral anastomosis. Our work here establishes a proximal MCA occlusion model using thrombi (autologous blood clots about 1.7 mm in diameter and 5 mm in length) in 8 beagle dogs, evaluates the progression of ischemic lesions at 30 min interval within 6 h after embolization using the diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), and discusses the potential mechanisms of lacunar infarction. Our results indicate that the left proximal MCAs can be successfully occluded in all dogs using interventional single-thrombus method. The small solitary or multiple ischemic lesions shown in DWI were observed in the deep brain area, with the mean detecting time of 1.21 ± 0.45 h using DWI and diameter of 6.62 ± 0.60 mm in 6h-DWI after procedure. In conclusion, our method established an ischemic model which can recapitulate the radiologic and histologic changes in lacunar infarcts, suggesting that emboli can cause lacunar infarcts in animal model.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Lacunar stroke
medicine.medical_treatment
Anastomosis
Beagle
Dogs
medicine.artery
Occlusion
medicine
Animals
cardiovascular diseases
Embolization
Thrombus
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Disease Models, Animal
Middle cerebral artery
Stroke, Lacunar
Female
Radiology
business
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Diffusion MRI
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1872678X
- Volume :
- 209
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of neuroscience methods
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....82d7c85b0ae96f1e5e103272be937af2