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Spontaneously hypertensive rats are highly vulnerable to AMPA-induced brain lesions.
Stroke - 1 Nov 2007
Lecrux Clotilde, Nicole Olivier, Chazalviel Laurent, Catone Christelle, Chuquet Julien, MacKenzie Eric T, Touzani Omar
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Whereas the effects of chronic arterial hypertension on the cerebral vasculature have been widely studied, its effects on brain tissue have been studied less so. Here we examined if spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) or the normotensive control Wistar Kyoto rats (WKYs) made hypertensive by renal artery stenosis (R-WKYs) are vulnerable to an excitotoxic brain lesion provoked by an...
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