Delayed reduction of ischemic brain injury and neurological deficits in mice lacking the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 9157-9164

  Iadecola, Costantino ^a   Zhang, Fangyi ^a   Casey, Robyn ^a   Nagayama, Masao ^a   Elizabeth Ross, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Gene expression; Knockout mice; Neuroprotection; Reverse transcription PCR; Stroke

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROKE;

EID: 0030664096     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09157.1997     Document Type: Article

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