Effect of Undaria pinnatifida (Wakame) on the development of cerebrovascular diseases in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 44-48

  Ikeda, Katsumi ^a   Kitamura, Akiko ^b   Machida, Hiroko ^b   Watanabe, Miyuki ^b   Negishi, Hiroko ^b   Hiraoka, Junko ^a   Nakano, Takahisa ^c  

^a MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN VITAMIN CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fucoxanthin; Neuronal cells; Stroke; Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats; Wakame

Indexed keywords

FUCOXANTHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL INCLUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REOXYGENATION; SEAWEED; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE; SURVIVAL; UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; NEURONS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 0037283266     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2003.03786.x     Document Type: Article

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