Protective effects of green tea catechins on cerebral ischemic damage

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Suzuki, Motohisa ^a   Tabuchi, Masaki ^a   Ikeda, Masahiko ^a   Umegaki, Keizo ^b   Tomita, Takako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focal cerebral ischemia; Green tea catechin; iNOS; Lipid peroxides; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrite

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFLEX; STROKE; TEA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATECHIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR, RECOMBINANT; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL GROWTH FACTORS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTERLEUKIN-3; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TEA; TYROSINE;

EID: 3042858194     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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