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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2017

Lickometry: A novel and sensitive method for assessing functional deficits in rats after stroke.

Jewel Ahmed, Dominic M Dwyer, Tracy D Farr, David J Harrison, Stephen B Dunnett, Rebecca C Trueman

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Jewel Ahmed1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
Dominic M Dwyer2 School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
Tracy D Farr1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
David J Harrison3 Brain Repair Group, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Stephen B Dunnett3 Brain Repair Group, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Rebecca C Trueman1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.

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National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/M001598/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for sensitive, easy to administer assessments of long-term functional deficits is crucial in pre-clinical stroke research. In the present study, we introduce lickometry (lick microstructure analysis) as a precise method to assess sensorimotor deficits up to 40 days after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Impairments in drinking efficiency compared to controls, and a compensatory increase in the number of drinking clusters were observed. This highlights the utility of this easy to administer task in assessing subtle, long-term deficits, which could be likened to oral deficits in patients.

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AnimalsDrinkingInfarction, Middle Cerebral ArteryMethodsPsychomotor DisordersRatsSensorimotor CortexStrokeAnimal modelsbehaviour (rodent)experimentalfocal ischaemiastroke

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PMID28056584
PMCPMC5305038

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