ROLE OF ANGIOGENESIS IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL ISCHEMIC STROKE
ROLE OF ANGIOGENESIS IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL ISCHEMIC STROKE
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DOI:
10.1161/01.str.25.9.1794
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发表时间:
1994-09-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
WANG, JM
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作者:
KRUPINSKI, J;KALUZA, J;WANG, JM
Background and Purpose Stroke is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in the Western world. It results from the occlusion of a cerebral artery followed by severe disturbances in blood supply through microvessels to brain tissue. Despite an extensive literature its pathophysiology is poorly understood, and this has severely impeded the logical development of therapy.Methods Brains were obtained from 10 patients aged 46 to 85 years with survival times of 5 to 92 days after their stroke. Infarcted areas and representative control tissues from the contralateral uninvolved brain hemisphere were collected. Microvessel density was measured microscopically. A total of 6520 microvessels were scored in 10 801 areas. The level of activation of the endothelial cells was studied by immunohistochemistry using three monoclonal antibodies, viz, E-9, raised against activated endothelial cells; IG11, recognizing vascular cell adhesion molecule-1; and anti-proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Angiogenic activity in tissue extracts was examined using an in vivo chicken chorioallantoic membrane assay.Results There was a statistically significant increase in the number of microvessels (Wilcoxon log-rank test; P less than or equal to.01) in 9 of 10 infarcted brain tissues when compared with their contralateral normal hemisphere. In these patients the higher blood vessel counts correlated with longer survival, as ascertained by Spearman's rho analysis (P