Edema Formation Exacerbates Neurological and Histological Outcomes after Focal Cerebral Ischemia in CuZn-Superoxide Dismutase Gene Knockout Mutant Mice

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplement

Volumn 1997, Issue 70, 1997, Pages 62-64

  Kondo, T ^a   Reaume, A G ^b   Huang, T T ^a   Murakami, K ^a   Carlson, E ^a   Chen, S ^a   Scott, R W ^b   Epstein, C J ^a   Chan, P H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEPHALON INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 0031304166     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6837-0_19     Document Type: Article

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