Impaired Cognitive Performance in Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Knockout Mice After Ischemic Stroke: A Pilot

Shanshan Li1, Yao Wang, Ze Jiang

  • 1From the Stroke Biological Recovery Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, The teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts (SL, YW, ZJ, YH, QMW); Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Basic Medical College, Guangzhou, China (SL); Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Nan'ao People's Hospital of Shenzhen, The First Affiliated Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China (YW); The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medicine University, Guangdong, Guanzhou, China (YW); Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China (ZJ); Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China (YH); Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Medicine, Illinois (JKL); School of Nursing, Fatigue Research Laboratory, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Charlestown, Massachusetts (KAL, LJW); and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (RZ).

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