Three-dimensional imaging of nitric oxide production in the rat brain subjected to ischemia-hypoxia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 899-903

  Kuppusamy, Periannan ^a   Ohnishi, S Tsuyoshi ^b   Numagami, Yoshihiro ^b,d   Ohnishi, Tomoko ^c   Zweier, Jay L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Philadelphia Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diethyldithiocarbamate; Electron paramagnetic resonance imaging; hypoxia; Ischemia; Nitric oxide; Spin trapping; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0028875770     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.1995.114     Document Type: Article

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