Dietary potassium supplementation improves vascular structure and ameliorates the damage caused by cerebral ischemia in normotensive rats

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rigsby, Christine S ^a   Pollock, David M ^a   Dorrance, Anne M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING; HEMISPHERE; HIGH POTASSIUM INTAKE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POTASSIUM RESTRICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEMETRY; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

RATTUS;

EID: 40749156302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17437075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-5-3     Document Type: Article

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