Objective To investigate the pathological changes of neurons in hippocampus CA1 following cerebral ischemia-reperfusion in rats and the effects of Panax notoginseng saponins (PNS) on this kind of damage.Methods The model of local cerebral ischemia-reperfusion was prepared by the intravascular theread-occlusing procedures to cause 2 hours of occlusion and followed by 46 hours of reperfusion in rats.The animals were randomly divided into 4 groups, i.e.sham operation group (SOG), modeling group (MG),treating group 1 with PNS (TG1) and treating group 2 (TG2), also treated with PNS at different dos...