Statins and cerebral vasomotor reactivity: implications for a new therapy?

MeSH terms

• Adult
• Animals
• Arginine / pharmacology
• Atorvastatin
• Brain Ischemia / etiology
• Brain Ischemia / prevention & control
• Cerebrovascular Circulation / drug effects*
• Clinical Trials, Phase II as Topic
• Endothelium, Vascular / drug effects
• Heptanoic Acids / pharmacology
• Heptanoic Acids / therapeutic use
• Humans
• Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / pharmacology*
• Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / therapeutic use
• Hypercholesterolemia / complications
• Hypertension / complications
• Intracranial Aneurysm / complications
• Mice
• Middle Cerebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
• Nitric Oxide / physiology
• Pravastatin / pharmacology
• Pravastatin / therapeutic use
• Pyrroles / pharmacology
• Pyrroles / therapeutic use
• Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
• Research Design
• Risk Factors
• Simvastatin / pharmacology
• Simvastatin / therapeutic use
• Stroke / prevention & control
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / drug therapy
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / etiology
• Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
• Vasodilation / drug effects
• Vasomotor System / drug effects*
• Vasospasm, Intracranial / drug therapy
• Vasospasm, Intracranial / etiology