Acute treatment with rosuvastatin protects insulin resistant (C57BL/6J ob/ob) mice against transient cerebral ischemia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1927-1935

  Mayanagi, Keita ^a,b,d   Katakam, Prasad V ^a   Gáspár, Tamas ^a   Domoki, Ferenc ^a,c   Busija, David W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Saitama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d Midori Ward ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral circulation; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; ICAM 1; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Statins; Strokes

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ROSUVASTATIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPERFUSION; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLUOROBENZENES; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OBESITY; PYRIMIDINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFONAMIDES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56649115966     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2008.81     Document Type: Article

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