Metronidazole improves intestinal microcirculation in septic rats independently of bacterial burden

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 427-438

  Lehmann, Ch ^a   Bac, V H ^a   Pavlovic, D ^a   Lustig, M ^a   Maier, S ^a   Feyerherd, F ^a   Usichenko, T I ^a   Meissner, K ^a   Haase, H ^a   Junger M ^a   Wendt, M ^a   Heidecke, C D ^a   Grundling M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endotoxemia; Metronidazole; Microcirculation; Peritonitis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTOXEMIA; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; INTESTINE WALL; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEPSIS; SUBMUCOSA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VENULE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CELL ADHESION; CYTOKINES; ENDOTOXEMIA; INTESTINES; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PERITONITIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33645407178     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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