Rat middle cerebral artery occlusion: evaluation of the model and development of a neurologic examination.

JB Bederson, LH Pitts, M Tsuji, MC Nishimura… - stroke, 1986 - Am Heart Assoc
We have examined the incidence and size of infarction after occlusion of different portions of
the rat middle cerebral artery (MCA) in order to define the reliability and predictability of this …

Evaluation of 2, 3, 5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride as a stain for detection and quantification of experimental cerebral infarction in rats.

JB Bederson, LH Pitts, SM Germano, MC Nishimura… - Stroke, 1986 - Am Heart Assoc
We have evaluated the use of 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) as an histopathologic
stain for identification of infarcted rat brain tissue. The middle cerebral artery (MCA) of 35 …

Mice lacking nerve growth factor display perinatal loss of sensory and sympathetic neurons yet develop basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

C Crowley, SD Spencer, MC Nishimura, KS Chen… - Cell, 1994 - cell.com
… However, DRGs from (-I-) animals did contain cells expressing t&B and MC (Figure 3B), and,
… a novel neurotrophic factor that activates both MC and f&3. Neuron 7, 657-666. Bradley, A (…

[PDF][PDF] A hierarchy of self-renewing tumor-initiating cell types in glioblastoma

R Chen, MC Nishimura, SM Bumbaca, S Kharbanda… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
The neural stem cell marker CD133 is reported to identify cells within glioblastoma (GBM) that
can initiate neurosphere growth and tumor formation; however, instances of CD133 − cells …

Neurturin exerts potent actions on survival and function of midbrain dopaminergic neurons

BA Horger, MC Nishimura, MP Armanini… - Journal of …, 1998 - Soc Neuroscience
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) exhibits potent effects on survival and
function of midbrain dopaminergic (DA) neurons in a variety of models. Although other growth …

Disruption of a single allele of the nerve growth factor gene results in atrophy of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and memory deficits

KS Chen, MC Nishimura, MP Armanini… - Journal of …, 1997 - Soc Neuroscience
Administration of nerve growth factor (NGF) to aged or lesioned animals has been shown to
reverse the atrophy of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and ameliorate behavioral deficits…

Evaluation of 2, 3, 5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining to delineate rat brain infarcts.

K Isayama, LH Pitts, MC Nishimura - Stroke, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
Accurate and reproducible determination of the size and location of cerebral infarcts is critical
for the evaluation of experimental focal cerebral ischemia. The purpose of this study was to …

3D micro-CT imaging of the postmortem brain

A de Crespigny, H Bou-Reslan, MC Nishimura… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance microscopy (μMRI) is becoming an important tool for non-destructive
analysis of fixed brain tissue. However, unlike MRI, X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans …

Hominoid-specific enzyme GLUD2 promotes growth of IDH1R132H glioma

R Chen, MC Nishimura, S Kharbanda… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Somatic mutation of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) is now recognized as the most
common initiating event for secondary glioblastoma, a brain tumor type arising with high …

[HTML][HTML] Trastuzumab uptake and its relation to efficacy in an animal model of HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastasis

GD Lewis Phillips, MC Nishimura, JA Lacap… - Breast cancer research …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose The extent to which efficacy of the HER2 antibody Trastuzumab in brain metastases
is limited by access of antibody to brain lesions remains a question of significant clinical …