Nutritional prevention on hypertension, cerebral hemodynamics and thrombosis in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 599-638

  Noguchi, Takanori ^a   Ikeda, Katsumi ^b   Sasaki, Yasuto ^c   Yamori, Yukio ^b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebral blood flow; cerebral hemodynamics; hypertension; nutritional prevention; stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ARGININE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; SESAMIN; WATER;

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVICE; DNA DAMAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; EXERCISE; HELIUM NEON LASER; HEMODYNAMICS; HEREDITARY HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INCIDENCE; MEASUREMENT; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; OBSERVATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STEREOTAXIS; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOSIS; VELOCITY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARGININE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PIA MATER; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

GINKGO BILOBA;

EID: 4043175439     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CEMN.0000036401.41492.24     Document Type: Article

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