Inhaled Nitric Oxide Protects Males But not Females from Neonatal Mouse Hypoxia-Ischemia Brain Injury

Translational Stroke Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-207

  Zhu, Changlian ^a,b   Sun, Yanyan ^a,b,c   Gao, Jianfeng ^a,d   Wang, Xiaoyang ^a,b   Plesnila, Nikolaus ^e   Blomgren, Klas ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHENGZHOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Henan Traditional Chinese Medical College   (China)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Gender difference; Microglia; Neonate; Neuroprotection; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

INHALED NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84875050645     PISSN: 18684483     EISSN: 1868601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12975-012-0217-2     Document Type: Article

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