Bridging the Transient Intraluminal Stroke Preclinical Model to Clinical Practice: From Improved Surgical Procedures to a Workflow of Functional Tests

Abstract

Graphical AbstractImproving translation of tMCAO mice model. Improvement of the surgical procedure, post-operative care and functional evaluation in the tMCAO mice, gives rise to a model with high parallel and translation into clinical reality. Induction of ischemia for 45-mins using smaller commercial filaments gives rise to uniform lesion volume that together with the improved post-operative care, decreases this model mortality. Furthermore, this allows for intensive long-term functional evaluation of mice. This way, clinical symptoms and ethology, as well as scales used to evaluate stroke, are mimicked in a mouse model.