A complex role for nitric oxide in ischemic stroke

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 280-281

  Nemoto, Edwin M ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Oxotremorine; Stroke

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033964971     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200001000-00062     Document Type: Editorial

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