Nitric-oxide synthase mediates the ability of darbepoetin alfa to attenuate pre-existing spatial working memory deficits in rats subjected to transient global ischemia

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 437-444

  Samson, Michel L ^a   Kajitani, Kosuke ^a   Robertson, George S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DENSITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSIENT GLOBAL ISCHEMIA; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77951058250     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.110.165530     Document Type: Article

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