Melatonin increases pial arterytone and decreases the lower limit of cerebral blood flow autoregulation

Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 233-238

  Régrigny, Olivier ^a   Delagrange, Philippe ^b   Scalbert, Elizabeth ^b   Atkinson, Jeffrey ^a   Chillon, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b IRIS Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier   (France)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; CBF; Cranial window; Hydrogen clearance

Indexed keywords

LUZINDOLE; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HYDROGEN CLEARANCE; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIA ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TECHNIQUE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HOMEOSTASIS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MELATONIN; PIA MATER; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; TRYPTAMINES; VASODILATION;

EID: 0034791834     PISSN: 07673981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-8206.2001.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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