Pinealectomy aggravates and melatonin administration attenuates brain damage in focal ischemia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 511-516

  Kilic, Ertugrul ^a   Özdemir, Yasemin Gürsoy ^b   Bolay, Hayrunnisa ^b   Keleştimur, Haluk ^c   Dalkara, Turgay ^b  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral ischemia; Melatonin; Neuroprotection; Pinealectomy

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE;

EID: 0033509001     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199905000-00005     Document Type: Article

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