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Beneficial effect of the oxygen free radical scavenger amifostine (WR-2721) on spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury in rabbits

BACKGROUND: Paraplegia is the most devastating complication of thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery. During these operations, an ischemia-reperfusion process is inevitable and the produced radical oxygen species cause severe oxidative stress for the spinal cord. In this study we examined the...

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Autores principales: Chronidou, Fany, Apostolakis, Efstratios, Papapostolou, Ioannis, Grintzalis, Konstantinos, Georgiou, Christos D, Koletsis, Efstratios N, Karanikolas, Menelaos, Papathanasopoulos, Panagiotis, Dougenis, Dimitrios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2751753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-50