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Alastair M. Buchan is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has published extensively in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Neurology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research primarily addresses acute ischemic stroke management, neurological disease mechanisms and treatments, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, as well as diversity and career in medicine and sex and gender in healthcare.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Buchan include:

  • Top Priorities for Cerebroprotective Studies-A Paradigm Shift: Report From STAIR XI (2021), published in Stroke
  • The neurovascular unit and systemic biology in stroke - implications for translation and treatment (2022), published in Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Effect of Athena SWAN funding incentives on women's research leadership (2020), published in BMJ
  • Functional Neurological Disorder (2020), published in Stroke
  • Reinventing the Penumbra - the Emerging Clockwork of a Multi-modal Mechanistic Paradigm (2022), published in Translational Stroke Research

Frequent co-authors working alongside Buchan include Daniel J. Beard, Anna M. Schneider, Yvonne Couch, Philipp Mergenthaler, and Pavel V. Ovseiko.

Major venues where this researcher has published repeatedly include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Stroke, Translational Stroke Research, PLoS ONE, and Clinical Medicine.

The scholar's contributions span various detailed subfields such as:

  • Neurology
  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Physiology
  • Molecular Biology

Main topics of research extracted from their work include:

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Glial and neuronal control of brain blood flow.

    David Attwell;Alastair M. Buchan;Serge Charpak;Martin Lauritzen

  • Validity and reliability of a quantitative computed tomography score in predicting outcome of hyperacute stroke before thrombolytic therapy

    Philip A Barber;Andrew M Demchuk;Andrew M Demchuk;Jinjin Zhang;Alastair M Buchan

  • Capillary pericytes regulate cerebral blood flow in health and disease

    Catherine N. Hall;Clare Reynell;Bodil Gesslein;Nicola B. Hamilton

  • Use of the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) for Assessing CT Scans in Patients with Acute Stroke

    J. H. Warwick Pexman;Philip A. Barber;Michael D. Hill;Robert J. Sevick

  • Why are stroke patients excluded from TPA therapy? An analysis of patient eligibility.

    P. A. Barber;J. Zhang;A. M. Demchuk;M. D. Hill

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Fast assessment of stroke and transient ischaemic attack to prevent early recurrence (FASTER): a randomised controlled pilot trial

    James Kennedy;Michael D Hill;Karla J Ryckborst;Michael Eliasziw

  • Hypothermia but not the N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist, MK-801, attenuates neuronal damage in gerbils subjected to transient global ischemia

    A Buchan;WA Pulsinelli

  • Global ischemia can cause DNA fragmentation indicative of apoptosis in rat brain

    John P. MacManus;Alastair M. Buchan;Irene E. Hill;Ingrid Rasquinha

  • Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke: results of the Canadian Alteplase for Stroke Effectiveness Study.

    Michael D. Hill;Alastair M. Buchan

  • Complications of intracerebral haemorrhage.

    Joyce S Balami;Alastair M Buchan

  • Stroke: Working toward a prioritized world agenda

    Vladimir Hachinski;Geoffrey A. Donnan;Philip B. Gorelick;Werner Hacke

  • Serum Glucose Level and Diabetes Predict Tissue Plasminogen Activator–Related Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Acute Ischemic Stroke

    Andrew M. Demchuk;Lewis B. Morgenstern;Derk W. Krieger;T. Linda Chi

  • Imaging of the brain in acute ischaemic stroke: comparison of computed tomography and magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging

    P A Barber;M D Hill;M Eliasziw;A M Demchuk

  • Imaging of acute stroke

    Keith W Muir;Alastair Buchan;Rudiger von Kummer;Joachim Rother

  • The four-vessel occlusion rat model: method for complete occlusion of vertebral arteries and control of collateral circulation.

    W A Pulsinelli;A M Buchan

  • Early risk of stroke after a transient ischemic attack in patients with internal carotid artery disease

    Michael Eliasziw;James Kennedy;Michael D. Hill;Alastair M. Buchan

  • Mechanisms of hemorrhagic transformation after tissue plasminogen activator reperfusion therapy for ischemic stroke.

    Xiaoying Wang;Kiyoshi Tsuji;Sun-Ryung Lee;MingMing Ning

  • Selection of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients for Intra-Arterial Thrombolysis With Pro-Urokinase by Using ASPECTS

    Michael D. Hill;Michael D. Hill;Howard A. Rowley;Howard A. Rowley;Felix Adler;Michael Eliasziw

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Hill
Michael D. Hill University of Calgary
Andrew M. Demchuk
Andrew M. Demchuk University of Calgary
Michael Eliasziw
Michael Eliasziw University of Calgary
Gary A. Ford
Gary A. Ford University of Oxford
Martin Lauritzen
Martin Lauritzen University of Copenhagen
Peter M. Rothwell
Peter M. Rothwell University of Oxford
Ursula I. Tuor
Ursula I. Tuor University of Calgary
John P. MacManus
John P. MacManus National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Nicola R. Sibson
Nicola R. Sibson University of Oxford

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