Gender-linked brain injury in experimental stroke

Stroke

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 159-166

  Alkayed, Nabil J ^a   Harukuni, Izumi ^a   Kimes, Alane S ^b   London, Edythe D ^b   Traystman, Richard J ^a   Hurn, Patricia D ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Estrogens; Gender; Neuroprotection; Stroke, experimental

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; ESTROGEN; IODOPHENAZONE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; REPERFUSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

EID: 0031984050     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.29.1.159     Document Type: Article

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