Statins induce angiogenesis, neurogenesis, and synaptogenesis after stroke

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 743-751

  Chen, Jieli ^a   Zhang, Zheng Gang ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Jiang, Hao ^a   Zhang, Chenling ^a   Lu, Mei ^b   Katakowski, Mark ^a   Feldkamp, Carolyn S ^b   Chopp, Michael ^a,c  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN; STATIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXTRAVASATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STROKE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 0038443056     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10555     Document Type: Article

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