Electroacupuncture attenuates both glutamate release and hyperemia after transient ischemia in gerbils

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-303

  Pang, Jinming ^a   Itano, Toshifumi ^a   Sumitani, Kazunori ^a   Negi, Tetsuro ^a   Miyamoto, Osamu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral Blood Flow; Electroacupuncture; Gerbil Hippocampus; Global Ischemia; Glutamate; Neuronal Density; Reperfusion Injury

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GERBIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPEREMIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; REPERFUSION INJURY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CELL COUNT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GERBILLINAE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPEREMIA; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; NEURONS;

EID: 0041818414     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X03000977     Document Type: Article

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