A small dose of the immunosuppressive agent FK506 (tacrolimus) protects peripheral nerve from ischemic fiber degeneration

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1601-1606

  Kihara, Mikihiro ^a   Kamijo, Mikiko ^c   Nakasaka, Yoshikuni ^b   Mitsui, Yoshiyuki ^a   Takahashi, Mitsuo ^a   Schmelzer, James D ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

FK506 (tacrolimus); Immunosuppressant; Ischemic neuropathy; Microspheres; Nerve blood flow

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TACROLIMUS; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0035190581     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.1194     Document Type: Article

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