17β-Estradiol reduces stroke injury in estrogen-deficient female animals

Stroke

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1665-1670

  Rusa, Renata ^a   Alkayed, Nabil J ^a   Crain, Barbara J ^a   Traystman, Richard J ^a   Kimes, Alane S ^b   London, Edythe D ^b   Klaus, Judy A ^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

17 estradiol; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral ischemia; Estrogen replacement therapy; Rats; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; STROKE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG IMPLANT; NEOSTRIATUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NEOSTRIATUM; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032587611     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.30.8.1665     Document Type: Article

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