The rota-rod and grid-walking tests of motor performance provide quantitative, objective, and reproducible measures of functional impairment of rats following an ischemic insult. These impairments correlate directly with infarct volume and provide information integral to future studies evaluating the effects of potential neuroprotective agents.
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