Melatonin improves cerebral circulation security margin in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 1 44-1, 1998, Pages

  Régrigny, Olivier ^a   Delagrange, Philippe ^b   Scalbert, Elizabeth ^b   Atkinson, Jeffrey ^a   Lartaud Idjouadiene, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow autoregulation; Cerebral vasoconstriction; Cerebrovascular resistance

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HYPERCAPNIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33750889329     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1998.275.1.h139     Document Type: Article

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