Soluble Alzheimers β-amyloid constricts the cerebral vasculature in vivo

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 77-80

  Suo, Zhiming ^a   Humphrey, James ^a   Kundtz, Amy ^a   Sethi, Faisil ^a   Placzek, Andon ^a   Crawford, Fiona ^a   Mullan, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular resistance

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLUBILITY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032573452     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00814-3     Document Type: Article

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