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Effects of magnesium nitrate (Mg(NO3)2) on the dynamics of neurological disorders and the lethality rate after brain ischemia induced by simultaneous bilateral occlusion of common carotid arteries were investigated in rats. Mg(NO3)2 administered in doses of 5 mg/1000 g and 50 mg/1000 g 60 min before and 1–2 s after the occlusion of both common carotid arteries statistically reduced the severity of neurological impairment and the death rate of rats.
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Kuzenkov, A.L. Krushinskii, 2014, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2014, No. 4, pp. 9–14.
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Kuzenkov, V.S., Krushinskii, A.L. Protective effect of magnesium nitrate on brain ischemia. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 69, 147–152 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392514040075
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