Renal Denervation Prevents Stroke and Brain Injury via Attenuation of Oxidative Stress in Hypertensive Rats [Stroke]

Conclusions Our present work provided the first experimental evidence that RD can prevent hypertensive stroke and brain injury, beyond blood pressure lowering, thereby highlighting RD as a promising therapeutic strategy for stroke as well as hypertension.

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Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - October 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nakagawa, T., Hasegawa, Y., Uekawa, K., Ma, M., Katayama, T., Sueta, D., Toyama, K., Kataoka, K., Koibuchi, N., Maeda, M., Kuratsu, J.-i., Kim-Mitsuyama, S. Tags: Stroke Source Type: research