Synthes Award for Resident Research in Spinal Cord & Spinal Column Injury: Statins for the treatment of neurological injury: a role beyond cholesterol lowering

Clin Neurosurg. 2004:51:320-8.

Authors

Matthew J McGirt¹, Graeme F Woodworth, John R Lynch, Daniel T Laskowitz

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

PMID: 15571161

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Anticholesteremic Agents / therapeutic use*
Atorvastatin
Awards and Prizes*
Brain Injuries / drug therapy*
Heptanoic Acids / therapeutic use*
Hypercholesterolemia / drug therapy*
Immunoblotting
Interleukin-6 / immunology
Internship and Residency*
Mice
Pyrroles / therapeutic use*
RNA, Messenger / immunology
Research*
Simvastatin / therapeutic use*
Spinal Cord Injuries / drug therapy*
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / drug therapy

Substances

Anticholesteremic Agents
Heptanoic Acids
Interleukin-6
Pyrroles
RNA, Messenger
Atorvastatin
Simvastatin