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The Successful Previous Volume On This Topic Provided A Detailed Benchwork Manual For The Most Commonly Used Animal Models Of Acute Neurological Injuries Including Cerebral Ischemia, Hemorrhage, Vasospasm, And Traumatic Brain And Spinal Cord Injuries. Animal Models Of Acute Neurological Injuries Ii: Injury And Mechanistic Assessments Aims To Collect Chapters On Assessing These Disorders From Cells And Molecules To Behavior And Imaging. These Comprehensive Assessments Are The Key For Understanding Disease Mechanisms As Well As Developing Novel Therapeutic Strategies To Ameliorate Or Even Prevent Damages To The Nervous System. Volume 1 Examines General Assessments In Morphology, Physiology, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology, Neurobehavior, And Neuroimaging, As Well As Extensive Sections On Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Cerebral Vasospasm, And Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Designed To Provide Both Expert Guidance And Step-by-step Procedures, Chapters Serve To Increase Understanding In What, Why, When, Where, And How A Particular Assessment Is Used. Accessible And Essential, Animal Models Of Acute Neurological Injuries Ii: Injury And Mechanistic Assessments Will Be Useful For Trainees Or Beginners In Their Assessments Of Acute Neurological Injuries, For Experienced Scientists From Other Research Fields Who Are Interested In Either Switching Fields Or Exploring New Opportunities, And For Established Scientists Within The Field Who Wish To Employ New Assessments. Histopathological Assessments Of Animal Models Of Cerebral Ischemia / Ami P. Raval And Bingren Hu -- Assessment Of Cell Death: Apoptosis, Necrosis, Or In Between / Thomas Genetta, Ling Wei, And Shan Ping Yu -- Stereology And 3d Volume Analyses In Nervous Tissue / Rabindra P. Singh, Li Shen, And Feng C. Zhou -- Assessments Of Reactive Astrogliosis Following Cns Injuries / Candace L. Floyd -- Physiological Assessment In Stroke Research / Casey Lee Hall [and Others] -- Eeg, Evoked Potential, And Extracellular Single-unit R