Simvastatin in traumatic brain injury: Effect on brain edema mechanisms

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2300-2307

  Béziaud, Tiphaine ^a   Ru Chen, Xiao ^a   El Shafey, Nelly ^a   Fréchou, Magalie ^a   Teng, Fei ^a   Palmier, Bruno ^a   Beray Berthat, Virginie ^a   Soustrat, Mathieu ^a   Margaill, Isabelle ^a   Plotkine, Michel ^a   Marchand Leroux, Catherine ^a   Besson, Valérie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

blood brain barrier; brain edema; claudin; polymorphonuclear neutrophil; simvastatin; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 5; EVANS BLUE; GELATINASE B; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MYELOPEROXIDASE; SIMVASTATIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 80052963281     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182227e4a     Document Type: Article

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