Allopregnanolone, a progesterone metabolite, is more effective than progesterone in reducing cortical infarct volume after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-389

  Sayeed, Iqbal ^a   Guo, Qingmin ^a   Hoffman, Stuart W ^a   Stein, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYPROPYL BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; PROGESTERONE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645002699     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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