Low levels of serum ionized magnesium are found in patients early after stroke which result in rapid elevation in cytosolic free calcium and spasm in cerebral vascular muscle cells

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-40

  Altura, Bella T ^a,b   Memon, Zaitoon I ^a   Zhang, Aimin ^a   Cheng, Toni P O ^c   Silverman, Robert ^d   Cracco, Roger Q ^a   Altura, Burton M ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral vascular muscle; Cerebrovasospasm; Cytosolic free calcium; Hemorrhagic stroke; Ischemic stroke; Serum ionized magnesium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FURA 2; MAGNESIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STROKE; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BASILAR ARTERY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOSOL; DOGS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031564829     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00471-0     Document Type: Article

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