Amelioration of ischemic brain damage by the preischemic administration of propentofylline (HWA285) in a rat focal ischemia

Brain Research

Volumn 723, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 228-230

  Matsumoto, Katsumi ^a   Sakaki, Takayuki ^b   Kohmura, Eiji ^b   Hayakawa, Toru ^b   Yamada, Kazuo ^c  

^a Hanwa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; middle cerebral artery occlusion; propentofylline; rat; striatum

Indexed keywords

NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PROPENTOFYLLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HISTOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029895915     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00258-2     Document Type: Article

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