Tumor necrosis factor-alpha increases cerebral blood flow and ultrastructural capillary damage through the release of nitric oxide in the rat brain

Microvascular Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 113-119

  Farkas, Eszter ^a   Süle, Zoltán ^a   Tóth Szuki, Valéria ^b   Mátyás, Adrienne ^a   Antal, Péter ^b   Farkas, Ibolya G ^a   Mihály, András ^a   Bari, Ferenc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Blood brain barrier; Cerebral blood flow; Nitric oxide; TNF

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CAPILLARIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33750628752     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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