Brain capillaries and cholinergic neurons persist in organotypic brain slices in the absence of blood flow

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Moser, Karma V ^a   Schmidt Kastner, Rainald ^b   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a   Humpel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Angiogenesis; Coslice; Hyperthermia; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

CELL ANTIGEN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RECA 1 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PH; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEVER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0042668388     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02728.x     Document Type: Article

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