Ovariectomy exacerbates and estrogen replacement attenuates photothrombotic focal ischemic brain injury in rats

Stroke

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 155-160

  Fukuda, Kenji ^a,b   Yao, Hiroshi ^a,b   Ibayashi, Setsuro ^a   Nakahara, Tatsuo ^b   Uchimura, Hideyuki ^b   Fujishima, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hizen National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Photochemistry; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL VALERATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0033967462     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.1.155     Document Type: Article

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