Inhalation of nitric oxide prevents ischemic brain damage in experimental stroke by selective dilatation of collateral arterioles

Circulation Research

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 727-738

  Terpolilli, Nicole A ^a,b   Kim, Seong Woong ^a   Thal, Serge C ^a   Kataoka, Hiroharu ^a   Zeisig, Vilia ^c,d   Nitzsche, Bjoern ^d   Klaesner, Benjamin ^e   Zhu, Changlian ^f   Schwarzmaier, Susanne ^a,b   Meissner, Lilja ^b   Mamrak, Uta ^a,b   Engel, Doortje C ^a   Drzezga, Alexander ^e   Patel, Rakesh P ^g   Blomgren, Klas ^h   Barthel, Henryk ^c   Boltze, Johannes ^d   Kuebler, Wolfgang M ⁱ   Plesnila, Nikolaus ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Experimental Neurosurgery   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

collateral blood flow; ischemic penumbra; ischemic stroke; nitric oxide inhalation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; STROKE; VASODILATION;

EID: 84857835223     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.111.253419     Document Type: Article

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