Part I: Stroke Models and Surgical Interventions

1. Rodent Stroke Models to Study Functional Recovery and Neural Repair

Daimen R.S. Britsch, Nausheen Syeara, Ann M. Stowe, and Vardan T. Karamyan

2. Subcortical White Matter Stroke in the Mouse: Inducing Injury and Tracking Cellular Proliferation

Miguel Alejandro Marin, Amy J. Gleichman, Andrew J. Brumm, and S. Thomas Carmichael

3. A Low Budget Photothrombotic Rodent Stroke Model

Faisal F. Alamri, Serob T. Karamyan, and Vardan T. Karamyan

4. Photothrombotic Model to Create an Infarct in the Hippocampus

Elena Blanco-Suárez

5. Bilateral Carotid Artery Stenosis and Cerebral Blood Flow Outcomes

Ifechukwude Joachim Biose and Gregory Jaye Bix

6. Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis: A Surgical Mouse Model to Study Moyamoya Syndrome

Jill M. Roberts and Justin F. Fraser

7. Modeling Distal Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Neonatal Rodents with Magnetic Nanoparticles or Magnetized Red Blood Cells

Jie-Min Jia and Yuxiao Jin

Part II: In Vivo and Post-Mortem Imaging of Mechanisms of Recovery

8. In Vivo Imaging of the Structural Plasticity of Cortical Neurons after Stroke

9. Measurement of Uninterrupted Cerebral Blood Flow by Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) during the Mouse Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Model by an Inverted LSCI Setup

Sung-Ha Hong, Andrea Doan, and Sean P. Marrelli

10. Multi-Exposure Speckle Imaging for Quantitative Evaluation of Cortical Blood Flow

Adam Santorelli, Colin T. Sullender, and Andrew K. Dunn

11. Wide-Field Optical Imaging in Mouse Models of Ischemic Stroke

Jonah A. Padawer-Curry, Ryan M. Bowen, Anmol Jarang, Xiaodan Wang, Jin-Moo Lee, and Adam Q. Bauer

12. Post-Mortem Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Degenerating and Reorganizing White Matter in Post-Stroke Rodent Brain

Vera H. Wielenga, Rick M. Dijkhuizen, and Annette Van der Toorn

Part III: Methods to Identify Molecular and Immune Mechanisms Supporting Recovery

13. Quantitative Spatial Mapping of Axons across Cortical Regions to Assess Axonal Sprouting after Stroke

Mary T. Joy, Samuel P. Bridges, and S. Thomas Carmichael

14. Quantitative Evaluation of Cerebral Microhemorrhages in the Mouse Brain

Rudy Chang and Rachita K. Sumbria

15. In Vivo Evaluation of BBB Integrity in the Post-Stroke Brain

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