Resection of the nerves bundle from the sphenopalatine ganglia tend to increase the infarction volume following middle cerebral artery occlusion

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-435

  Diansan, Su ^a   Shifen, Zhang ^b   Zhen, Gu ^c   Heming, Wang ^c   Xiangrui, Wang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Dongming Community Health Care Center   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Nitric oxygen synthase; Perivascular nerves; Rats; Sphenopalatine ganglion

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE INJURY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PTERYGOPALATINE GANGLION; RAT; ANIMAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LIGATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL COUNT; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIGATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NERVE FIBERS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77958122701     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-010-0238-0     Document Type: Article

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