Ciliary neurotrophic factor attenuates spatial cognition impairment, cortical infarction and thalamic degeneration in spontaneously hypertensive rats with focal cerebral ischemia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 141-144

  Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakaki, Saburo ^a   Watanabe, Hideaki ^a   Nakano, Kei ^a   Ohta, Shinsuke ^a   Matsuda, Seiji ^a   Yoshimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Sakanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciliary neurotrophic factor; Focal cerebral ischemia; Middle cerebral artery; Morris water maze test; Thalamic degeneration

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029865597     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)12450-2     Document Type: Article

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