Vascular endothelial growth factor promotes pericyte coverage of brain capillaries, improves cerebral blood flow during subsequent focal cerebral ischemia, and preserves the metabolic penumbra

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1690-1697

  Zechariah, Anil ^a   ElAli, Ayman ^a   Doeppner, Thorsten R ^a   Jin, Fengyan ^a   Hasan, Mohammad R ^a   Helfrich, Iris ^a   Mies, Günter ^b   Hermann, Dirk M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Autoradiography; Bioluminescence imaging; Energy metabolism

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; RECOMBINANT VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; ENERGY METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CADHERINS; CAPILLARIES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84880155067     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000240     Document Type: Article

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