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Physiological Aspects of Brain Ischaemia in the Experimental Primate and Man

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Mechanisms of Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke

Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology ((ABBI,volume 35))

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This paper will review some of the general pathophysiology of focal ischaemia as determined in the experimental primate, and will attempt to draw some analogies with man in the circumstances of subarachnoid haemorrhage or acute vascular occlusion during aneurysm surgery. This latter presents us with the closest approximation to experimental laboratory studies which we are likely to have in man.

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Symon, L. (1988). Physiological Aspects of Brain Ischaemia in the Experimental Primate and Man. In: Somjen, G. (eds) Mechanisms of Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5562-5_11

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