Article
Increased severity of stroke in CB1 cannabinoid receptor knock-out mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Nov 2002
Parmentier-Batteur Sophie, Jin Kunlin, Mao Xiao Ou, Xie Lin, Greenberg David A
Abstract excerpt
Endogenous cannabinoid signaling pathways have been implicated in protection of the brain from hypoxia, ischemia, and trauma, but the mechanism for these protective effects is uncertain. We found that in CB1 cannabinoid receptor knock-out mice, mortality from permanent focal cerebral ischemia was increased, infarct size and neurological deficits after transient focal cerebral ischemia were more severe, cerebral...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Flow Velocity
- Blood Pressure
- Brain
- Cerebrovascular Circulation
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery
- Male
