PREVENTIVE FOR CEREBRAL STROKE RECURRENCE

摘要

It is intended to provide a novel preventive for cerebral stroke recurrence and a method of conveniently evaluating a preventive for cerebral stroke recurrence. By using a convenient evaluation method with the use of spontaneously hypertensive rat-stroke prone (SHR-SP) rats having been established by us, it is proved that atorvastatin has effects of preventing cerebral stroke recurrence, relieving nerve symptoms in relapsed cerebral stroke and elevating the survival ratio after the onset of cerebral stroke. That is to say, atorvastatin is useful as a preventive for cerebral stroke recurrence.