Intracarotid L-arginine reverses motor evoked potential changes in experimental cerebral vasospasm

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Özüm, Ünal ^a   Aslan, Adem ^b   Taş, Ayşenur ^a   Kars, H Zafer ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Afyonkarahisar University School of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Evoked potential; L arginine; Nitric oxide; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ANIMAL; CAROTID ARTERY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CAROTID ARTERIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 35848941677     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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