Prevention of postischemic spinal cord injury by means of regional infusion of adenosine and L-carnitine dissolved in normothermic saline

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-348

  Darçin, Osman Tansel ^a,b   Baktiroǧlu, Lütfü ^a,b   Özkul, Yaşar ^a,b   Özardali, Ilyas ^a,b   Andaç, Mehmet Halit ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medicine ^*

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CARNETEN; CARNITINE; HEPARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 2542480017     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-004-0022-9     Document Type: Article

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