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Retraction Note: Purine anti-metabolite attenuates nuclear factor κB and related pro-inflammatory cytokines in experimental vasospasm
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Retraction Note: 6-Mercaptopurine reverses experimental vasospasm and alleviates the production of endothelins in NO-independent mechanism—a laboratory study
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Purine anti-metabolite attenuates nuclear factor κB and related pro-inflammatory cytokines in experimental vasospasm
Increased nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) bioexpression, as well as TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-6 levels, were observed after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). It is of interest to investigate the effect of 6-mercap...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: 6-Mercaptopurine reverses experimental vasospasm and alleviates the production of endothelins in NO-independent mechanism—a laboratory study
Increased endothelin-1 (ET-1) production and diminished nitric oxide synthase (NOS) bioavailability has been observed in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The authors previously found that 6-mercaptopu...
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Atorvastatin preconditioning attenuates the production of endothelin-1 and prevents experimental vasospasm in rats
Induced endothelin-1 (ET-1) production and decreased nitric oxide synthase (NOS) bioavailability have been found in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Atorvastatin is recognized to have pleiotropic effe...
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Hardness of approximating graph transformation problem
