Angiotensin II AT1 receptor blockade decreases brain artery inflammation in a stress-prone rat strain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1018, Issue , 2004, Pages 345-350

  Ando, Hiromichi ^a   Jezova, Miroslava ^a   Zhou, Jin ^a   Saavedra, Juan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II AT1 receptor; Brain microvessels; eNOS; ICAM 1; Inflammation; Macrophages; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIOXIDANT; CANDESARTAN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS3 PROTEIN, RAT; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRESS; ANIMAL; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ARTERITIS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; STRESS; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 3242665132     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1296.043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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