Dietary soy may not confound acute experimental stroke infarct volume outcomes in ovariectomized female rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-246

  Prongay, Kamm D ^a,b   Lewis, Anne D ^b   Hurn, Patricia D ^c   Murphy, Stephanie J ^a,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischaemia; Phytoestrogen; Soy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PHYTOESTROGEN; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PILOT STUDY; RAT; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SOYBEAN; STROKE; UTERUS WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UTERUS; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOYBEANS; STROKE; UTERUS;

EID: 77954446609     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2009.009031     Document Type: Article

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