Nefiracetam improves the impairment of local cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization after chronic focal cerebral ischemia in rats

Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 119-125

  Jin, Jingji ^a   Watabe, Shigeo ^b   Yamamoto, Tsuneyuki ^c  

^a Laboratory of Pharmacology   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoradiography; Cerebral blood flow; Glucose utilization; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Nefiracetam (DM 9384)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NEFIRACETAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GLUCOSE; MALE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; POSTURE; PYRROLIDINONES; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 0036166987     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056160     Document Type: Article

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