Atorvastatin and whisker stimulation synergistically enhance angiogenesis in the barrel cortex of rats following focal ischemia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 525, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-139

  Zhang, Yunyun ^a,b   Huang, Susu ^b,c,e   Wang, Bin ^a   Sun, Bo ^b,f   Li, Wenlei ^d   Lu, Xiaowei ^b   Ding, Xinsheng ^b,c  

^a WUXI PEOPLE S HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d The Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jiangsu Province   (China)

^e THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f THE AFFILIATED HUAIAN NO 1 PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Atorvastatin; Barrel cortex; Combination therapy

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MICROVESSELS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84865421333     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.056     Document Type: Article

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