Progesterone in transient ischemic stroke: A dose-response study

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 3313-3323

  Yousuf, Seema ^a   Atif, Fahim ^a   Sayeed, Iqbal ^a   Tang, Huiling ^a   Stein, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Functional outcomes; Infarct; Progesterone; Stroke

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; GAIT; GRIP STRENGTH; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR FUNCTION TEST; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SOMATOSENSORY NEGLECT TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HAND STRENGTH; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HAND STRENGTH; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84930278642     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3556-8     Document Type: Article

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