Tetramethylpyrazine attenuates spinal cord ischemic injury due to aortic cross-clamping in rabbits

BMC Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Chen, Shaoyang ^a   Xiong, Lize ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Sang, Hanfei ^a   Zhu, Zhenhua ^a   Dong, Hailong ^a   Lu, Zhihong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CELL COUNT; CHINESE HERB; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; HEMIPLEGIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAPLEGIA; RABBIT; REPERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TIME; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; AORTA; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; LIGATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AORTA; CELL COUNT; CONSTRICTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONS; PARAPLEGIA; PYRAZINES; RABBITS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2642571968     PISSN: 14712377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-2-1     Document Type: Article

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