A review of carotid atherosclerosis and vascular cognitive decline: A new understanding of the keys to symptomology

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 484-493

  Dempsey, Robert J ^a   Vemuganti, Raghu ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Hermann, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Carotid endarterectomy; Cognitive decline; Dementia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 2; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL ADHESION KINASE B; DESMOCOLLIN; DESMOCOLLIN 2; DISCOIDIN; DISCOIDIN DOMAIN RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 20; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBULIN; FIBULIN 1; GLYCOPHORIN; GLYCOPHORIN E; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 2 ASSOCIATED BINDING PROTEIN 2; HERSTATIN; LAMININ ALPHA2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOTIC ARREST DEFICIENT LIKE 2 PROTEIN; MYOSIN; NEUROPILIN 1; PERIPLAKIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN MADH2; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR P; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 4; TROPHININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELASTICITY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; STROKE;

EID: 77955000828     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000371730.11404.36     Document Type: Review

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