Sex differences in ischemic stroke sensitivity are influenced by gonadal hormones, not by sex chromosome complement

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-229

  Manwani, Bharti ^a   Bentivegna, Kathryn ^a   Benashski, Sharon E ^a   Venna, Venugopal Reddy ^a   Xu, Yan ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^b   McCullough, Louise D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain ischemia; cerebrovascular disease; genetics; reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SRY PROTEIN, MOUSE; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GONADECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; SUPPLEMENTATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UTERUS WEIGHT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADAL HORMONES; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MICE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; STROKE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84922337351     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.186     Document Type: Article

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