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We investigated the effect of sodium nitrate on the progress of stress-induced damages in rats of the Krushinskii-Molodkina strain which are genetically prone to audiogenic seizures. NaNO3, at doses of 5 and 50 mg per 100 g of body weight, decreased the severity of movement impairments and the mean sizes of subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhages induced by acoustical stress. Sodium nitrate, at a dose of 0.5 mg per 100 g of body weight, did not significantly influence these changes.
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Original Russian Text © A.L. Krushinsky, V.S. Kuzenkov, V.P. Reutov, V.B. Koshelev, E.G. Sorokina, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2009, No. 1, pp. 14–17.
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Krushinsky, A.L., Kuzenkov, V.S., Reutov, V.P. et al. Sodium nitrate decreases the progress of stress-induced damages in rats of the Krushinskii-Molodkina strain. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 64, 12–15 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392509010039
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