Correlation of vascular endothelial growth factor to permeability of blood-brain barrier and brain edema during high-altitude exposure

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 775-779

  Zhou, Qiquan ^a,b   Liu, Chang'e ^a   Wang, Jing ^c   Wang, Yunli ^c   Zhou, Bo ^d  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CHENGDU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d 25 Hospital of Chinese PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; High altitude; Permeability; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

EVANS BLUE; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN WATER; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOUBLE ANTIBODY SANDWICH ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER CONTENT; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 70450040020     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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