Effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibition on the cerebral circulation and brain damage during kainic acid-induced seizures in newborn rabbits

Brain and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 253-259

  Takei, Yukito ^a,b   Takashima, Sachio ^b   Ohyu, Junkou ^b   Takami, Takeshi ^a   Miyajima, Tasuku ^a   Hoshika, Akinori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Kainic acid; L NAME; Near infrared spectroscopy; Seizure

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; KAINIC ACID; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SEIZURE; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NEURONS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN; RABBITS; SEIZURES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0032991119     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(99)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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