Rat pial microvascular responses to melatonin during bilateral common carotid artery occlusion and reperfusion

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 136-144

  Lapi, Dominga ^a   Vagnani, Sabrina ^b   Cardaci, Emilio ^b   Paterni, Marco ^c   Colantuoni, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

arteriolar tone; bilateral common carotid artery occlusion; melatonin; MT1, MT2, and MT3 melatonin receptors; pial microcirculation; radical oxygen species; reperfusion

Indexed keywords

LUZINDOLE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN 1 RECEPTOR; MELATONIN 2 RECEPTOR; PRAZOSIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL VEINS; MALE; MELATONIN; MICROVESSELS; PIA MATER; PRAZOSIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REPERFUSION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 79960359522     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: 1600079X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079X.2011.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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