The effects of N(G)-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester on neurologic and histopathologic outcome after transient spinal cord ischemia in rabbits

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 696-702

  Matsumoto, Mishiya ^a   Iida, Yasuhiko ^a   Wakamatsu, Hiroya ^a   Ohtake, Kazunobu ^a   Nakakimura, Kazuhiko ^a   Xiong, Lize ^a   Sakabe, Takefumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEART RATE; ISCHEMIA; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENYLEPHRINE; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPERFUSION; SPINAL CORD; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032820320     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199909000-00031     Document Type: Article

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