From Bedside to Bench: How Clinical Reality Should Instruct Stroke Modeling.- How to Avoid Bumping into the Translational Roadblock.- Modeling Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Rodents: Introduction and Overview.- Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Mouse and Rat by Intraluminal Suture.- Focal Ischemia Models: Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Induced by Electrocoagulation, Occluding devices and Endothelin-1.- Mouse Model of in situ Thromboembolic Stroke and Reperfusion.- Photochemical Models of Focal Brain Ischemia.- Housing in an Enriched Environment - A Tool to Study Functional Recovery after Experimental Stroke.- Modeling Risk Factors and Confounding Effects in Stroke.- Effect of Anesthesia in Stroke Models.- Non-invasive Brain Imaging in Small Animal Stroke Models: MRI, PET and SPECT.- Non-invasive Optical Imaging in Rodent Models of Stroke .- Behavioral Testing in Rodent Models of Stroke, Part I.- Behavioral Testing in Rodent Models of Stroke -Part II.- Combining Classical Comprehensive With Ethological Based, High Throughput Automated Behavioral Phenotyping for Rodent Models of Stroke.- Histology and Infarct Volume Determination in Rodent Models of Stroke.- Ethics of Modeling of Cerebral Ischemia in Small Animals.- Quality Control and Standard Operating Procedures.- Statistics in Experimental Stroke Research: From Sample Size Calculation to Data Description and Significance Testing.- Complexities, Confounders, and Challenges in Experimental Stroke Research: A Checklist for Researchers and Reviewers.
