Estrogens and cerebrovascular stroke: What do animal models teach us?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1052, Issue , 2005, Pages 225-232

  Wise, Phyllis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cell death; Cerebral ischemia; Estrogen therapy; Menopause; Neurodegeneration; Neuroprotection; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONAL THERAPY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25144514412     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1347.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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