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Gel G, Unluer C, Yılmaz ER, Erguder BI, Arıkok AT, Sener S, Kertmen HH, Turkoglu ME. Neuroprotective Effects of Coenzyme Q10 and Ozone Therapy on Experimental Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in Rats. World Neurosurg 2024; 188:e25-e33. [PMID: 38685349 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.04.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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OBJECTIVE This study investigates the neuroprotective effects and functional recovery potential of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and ozone therapy in spinal cord injury (SCI). MATERIAL AND METHODS In this study, 40 female Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups of 8. Surgical procedures induced spinal cord trauma in all groups, except the control group. The ozone group received 0.7 mg/kg rectal ozone daily for 7 days, starting 1 hour postspinal cord trauma. The CoQ10 group was administered 120 mg/kg CoQ10 orally once daily for 7 days, beginning 24 hours prior to trauma. The CoQ10 + ozone group received both treatments. Examinations included a modified Tarlov scale and inclined plane test on days 1, 3, 5, and 7. Malondialdehyde (MDA) analysis was conducted on serum samples, and assessments of caspase-3, Bcl-2, and Bax levels were performed on tissue samples. Additionally, a comprehensive examination analyzed histopathological and ultrastructural changes. RESULTS After SCI, there was a statistically significant increase in serum MDA, tissue caspase-3, and Bax levels (MDA P < 0.001, caspase-3 P < 0.001, Bax P = 0.003). In the CoQ10 + ozone group, serum MDA (P = 0.002), tissue caspase-3 (P = 0.001), and Bax (P = 0.030) levels were significantly lower compared to the trauma group. Tissue Bcl-2 levels were also significantly higher (P = 0.019). The combined treatment group demonstrated improved histopathological, ultrastructural, and neurological outcomes. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that CoQ10 + ozone therapy in traumatic SCI demonstrates neuroprotective effects via antioxidant and antiapoptotic mechanisms. The positive effects on functional recovery are supported by data from biochemical, histopathological, ultrastructural, and neurological examinations.
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- Gulce Gel
- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biochemistry, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Emergency, Acibadem University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Diskapi Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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Immediate anterior open reduction and plate fixation in the management of lower cervical dislocation with facet interlocking. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1286. [PMID: 30718730 PMCID: PMC6362197 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37742-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Lower cervical dislocation with facet interlocking is one of the most drastic injuries to the cervical spine. The early reduction is thought critical in preventing progressive secondary spinal cord injury. The authors report a new surgical procedure in the management of lower cervical dislocation with facet interlocking. A total of twenty-one cases received immediate single-staged anterior open reduction, realignment and plate fixation under general anesthesia. After the procedures, most cases exhibited improved neurological function. All patients showed stable fusion at 1-year follow-up. Loss of spinal alignment or kyphotic deformity was not found in any case. Hardware failure including screw loosening or penetrating was not observed. In conclusion, the immediate anterior open reduction and plate fixation is a safe and effective procedure in the management of lower cervical dislocation with facet interlocking.
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Suner HI, Kurt G, Yildirim Z, Bulduk EB, Borcek AO, Demirci H, Kartal B, Kaplanoglu GT. Investigation of the Effect of Alemtuzumab in an Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma Model in Rats. World Neurosurg 2018; 121:e723-e730. [PMID: 30292667 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.09.197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2018] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Spinal cord injuries generate the most negative response to medical treatment among all general body injuries. This important morbidity is thought to be caused by a complex secondary damage mechanism. In the present study, we examined the neuroprotective effects of alemtuzumab in a spinal cord trauma model. METHODS We divided 24 Long-Evans male rats into 4 groups (n = 6 per group). Laminectomy was performed at T5-T8 in all groups. Trauma was applied using the Yasargil temporary aneurysm clip for 60 seconds at these spinal cord levels in all groups, except for group 1. Next, 1 mg/kg of alemtuzumab was administered to each rat in groups 3 and 4. A functional evaluation was performed on days 1, 3, and 5 in groups 1, 2, and 4, and the rats were then sacrificed. The rats in group 3 were sacrificed on the third postoperative day to observe the early effects of alemtuzumab. The biochemical examination findings of malondialdehyde and glutathione in plasma and tissue samples and histopathological findings of the spinal cord were evaluated and compared by statistical analysis. RESULTS The inflammatory findings in the trauma group were not seen in either group treated with alemtuzumab. The clinical motor examination and inclined plane test results were also significantly better in these groups. CONCLUSION Our results have shown that alemtuzumab might prevent spinal cord injury after trauma and is a histopathologically and biochemically strong anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and neuroprotective agent.
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- Halil Ibrahim Suner
- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Eskisehir Government Hospital, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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Research over the past decade has demonstrated that, under some circumstances, structural reorganization of the CNS, including the spinal cord, can occur after injury, raising hopes that spinal cord repair associated with functional recovery, although a daunting goal, may not be an unreachable one. This brief review dis cusses recent approaches to this problem: use of neurotrophins and the rerouting of axons within the transected spinal cord from white matter to gray matter through nerve grafts, and the transplantation of exogenous myelin-forming glial cells to spinal cord tracts in which myelin has been lost. Results available to date indicate that, in models mimicking some aspects of human spinal cord injury, these approaches may yield anatomical repair that is associated with partial restoration of physiological and behavioral func tion. Many important questions remain unanswered. Nevertheless, although the clinical goal of repairing spinal cords in humans is a very challenging one, results in animal models suggest that spinal cord repair is a realistic objective and provide a glimpse of what is likely to be a period of rapid progress. NEURO SCIENTIST 3:263-269, 1997
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- Stephen G. Waxman
- Department of Neurology Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut PVAlEPVA Center for Neuroscience Veterans Administration
Medical Center West Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Neurology Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut PVAlEPVA Center for Neuroscience Veterans Administration
Medical Center West Haven, Connecticut
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Streijger F, Lee JH, Chak J, Dressler D, Manouchehri N, Okon EB, Anderson LM, Melnyk AD, Cripton PA, Kwon BK. The Effect of Whole-Body Resonance Vibration in a Porcine Model of Spinal Cord Injury. J Neurotrauma 2015; 32:908-21. [DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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- Femke Streijger
- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Deparments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Deparments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Deparments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Deparments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute (VSSI), Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Lee HJ, Kim HS, Nam KH, Han IH, Cho WH, Choi BK. Neurologic Outcome of Laminoplasty for Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury without Instability. KOREAN JOURNAL OF SPINE 2013; 10:133-7. [PMID: 24757474 PMCID: PMC3941758 DOI: 10.14245/kjs.2013.10.3.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Revised: 08/24/2013] [Accepted: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Objective The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of laminoplasty in the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) without instability. Methods 79 patients with SCI without instability who underwent surgical treatment in our institute between January 2005 and September 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. Twenty nine patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria as follows: SCI without instability, spinal cord contusion in MRI, cervical stenosis more than 20%, follow up at least 6 months. Preoperative neurological state, clinical outcome and neurological function was measured using the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale, modified Japanese Orthopedic Association (mJOA) grading scale and Hirabayashi recovering rate. Results Seventeen patients showed improvement in ASIA grade and twenty six patients showed improvement in mJOA scale at 6 month follow up. However, all patients with ASIA grade B and C have shown improvement of one or more ASIA grade. Mean Hirabayashi recovery rate was 47.4±23.7%. There was better neurologic recovery in those who had cervical spondylosis without ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) (p<0.05, χ2 test). Conclusions It is different in B, C, D with ASIA A that there are debates going on about the application of surgical treatment in ASIA A, and surgical treatment is helpful in B, C, D since it contributes to neurologic improvement. We concluded that laminoplasty provided good neurologic recovery in SCI without instability that cervical canal stenosis, especially spondylosis without OPLL and neurologic deterioration in ASIA B, C and D.
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- Hwa Joong Lee
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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Ng WP, Fehlings MG, Cuddy B, Dickman C, Fazl M, Green B, Hitchon P, Northrup B, Sonntag V, Wagner F, Tator CH. Surgical treatment for acute spinal cord injury study pilot study #2: evaluation of protocol for decompressive surgery within 8 hours of injury. Neurosurg Focus 2012; 6:e3. [PMID: 17031916 DOI: 10.3171/foc.1999.6.1.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major public health problem for which there is still only limited treatment available. The National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study-2 (NASCIS-2) and -3 clinical trials demonstrated that the use of acute pharmacotherapy with methylprednisolone can attenuate the secondary injury cascade if administered within 8 hours of acute SCI. However, no trial has been performed to examine whether acute surgical decompressive procedures within this critical 8-hour time window can improve patients' neurological outcome. The purpose of the current prospective Surgical Treatment for Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study (STASCIS) pilot study was to determine the feasibility of obtaining a radiological diagnosis of spinal canal compromise of 25% or more and to perform spinal cord (C3-T1) decompressive procedures by 8 hours postinjury. One of the following three decompressive methods was used: 1) traction alone; 2) traction and surgery; or 3) surgery alone. Twenty-six patients from eight North American centers were entered into the study between 1996 and 1997. Significant difficulties were encountered in many centers in performing immediate magnetic resonance imaging examination in patients with acute SCI. Fewer than 10% of acute cervical SCI patients could be enrolled into this protocol mainly because the combination of the required time for rescue, resuscitation, transport, imaging study, and surgical preparation exceeded the 8-hour injury-to-decompressive surgery window. Eleven patients underwent decompressive procedures initially by being placed in traction at a mean time of 10.9 hours postinjury. Those patients not undergoing this procedure underwent decompressive surgery at a mean time of 40.1 hours. However, the surgical decompressive procedure was completed within 12 hours in seven patients. As a result of these findings, several major changes have been made to the STASCIS protocol for early decompressive therapy.
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- W P Ng
- Division of Neurosurgery, The University of Toronto, The Toronto Hospital, Canada; and Members of the STASCIS Surgical Decompression Study Group
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Chen Y. Organophosphate-induced brain damage: mechanisms, neuropsychiatric and neurological consequences, and potential therapeutic strategies. Neurotoxicology 2012; 33:391-400. [PMID: 22498093 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2012.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2012] [Revised: 03/24/2012] [Accepted: 03/25/2012] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Organophosphate (OP)-induced brain damage is defined as progressive damage to the brain, resulting from the cholinergic neuronal excitotoxicity and dysfunction induced by OP-induced irreversible AChE inhibition. This delayed secondary neuronal damage that occurs mainly in the cholinergic regions of the brain that contain dense accumulations of cholinergic neurons and the majority of cholinergic projection, might be largely responsible for persistent profound neuropsychiatric and neurological impairments (memory, cognitive, mental, emotional, motor and sensory deficits) in the victims of OP poisoning. Neuroprotective strategies for attenuating OP-induced brain damage should target different development stages of OP-induced brain damage, and may include but not limited to: (1) Antidote therapies with atropine and related efficient anticholinergic drugs; (2) Anti-excitotoxic therapies targeting attenuation of cerebral edema and inflammatory reaction, blockage of calcium influx, inhibition of apoptosis program, and the control of seizures; (3) Neuroprotective strategies using cytokines, antioxidants and NMDAR antagonists (a single drug or a combination of drugs) to slow down the process of secondary neuronal damage; and (4) Therapies targeting individual symptoms or clusters of chronic neuropsychiatric and neurological symptoms. These neuroprotective strategies may help limit or prevent secondary neuronal damage at the early stage of OP poisoning and attenuate the subsequent neuropsychiatric and neurological impairments, thus reducing the long-term disability caused by exposure to OPs.
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- Yun Chen
- BrightstarTech, Inc., 23102 Meadow Mist Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871, USA.
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Ling X, Liu D. Temporal and spatial profiles of cell loss after spinal cord injury: Reduction by a metalloporphyrin. J Neurosci Res 2007; 85:2175-85. [PMID: 17551979 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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This study presents quantitative temporal and spatial profiles of neuronal loss and apoptosis following a contusion spinal cord injury (50 g . cm). The profiles were evaluated by counting the cresol violet-stained surviving cells and the total number of TUNEL-positive cells and of TUNEL-positive neurons in sections 0- 4 mm from the epicenter and 1, 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hr and 1 week postinjury. We demonstrated that neurons continue to disappear over 1 week postinjury and that neuronal loss shifts to areas longer distances from the epicenter over time. TUNEL-positive cells in both gray and white matter appeared after 6 hr, gradually increased to a peak level after 48 hr, and declined by 72 hr postinjury. TUNEL-positive neurons peaked earlier and were present for 1 week, although the total number of neurons was reduced significantly by the end of the week. The neuronal loss and apoptosis were partially prevented by a metalloporphyrin [Mn(III) tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin (MnTBAP)]. We demonstrated that MnTBAP (10 and 50 mg/kg, given intraperitoneally) significantly reduced neuronal death in the sections 1-2.5 mm rostral and 1 mm caudal from the epicenter compared with that in the vehicle-treated group, suggesting MnTBAP is more effective in the sections rostral than in those caudal to the epicenter. MnTBAP (10 mg/kg) significantly reduced the number of TUNEL-positive neurons in the sections 1 mm caudal from the epicenter. Our profiles provide a database for pharmacological intervention, and our results on MnTBAP treatment support an important role for antioxidant therapy in spinal cord injury.
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- Xiang Ling
- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0881, USA
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Liu XY, Li CY, Bu H, Li Z, Li B, Sun MM, Guo YS, Zhang L, Ren WB, Fan ZL, Wu DX, Wu SY. The neuroprotective potential of phase II enzyme inducer on motor neuron survival in traumatic spinal cord injury in vitro. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2007; 28:769-79. [PMID: 17912625 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-007-9219-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2007] [Accepted: 08/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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(1) Phase II enzyme inducer is a kind of compound which can promote the expression of antioxidative enzymes through nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) activation. Recently, it has been reported that these compounds show neuroprotective effect via combating oxidative stress. The purpose of this study is to determine whether phase II enzyme inducers have neuroprotective effects on traumatic spinal cord injury. (2) An organotypic spinal cord culture system was used, Phase II enzyme inducers were added to culture medium for 1 week, motor neurons were counted by SMI-32 staining, glutamate, Nrf2, and Heme oxygenase-1(HO-1) mRNA were tested. (3) This study showed motor neuron loss within 1 week in culture. After 1 week in culture, the system was stable. Moreover, Glutamate was increased when in culture 48 h and decreased after 1 week in culture. There was no significant change between 1 and 4 weeks in culture. Necrotic motor neuron and damaged mitochondrial were observed in culture 48 h. Furthermore, phase II enzyme inducers: tert-butyhydroquinone (t-BHQ), 3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (D3T), and 5,6-dihydrocyclopenta-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (CPDT) were shown to promote motor neuron survival after dissection, it was due to increasing Nrf2 and HO-1 mRNA expression and protecting mitochondrial not due to decreasing glutamate level. (4) The loss of motor neuron due to dissection can mimic severe traumatic spinal cord injury. These results demonstrate that glutamate excitotoxicity and the damage of mitochondrial is possibly involve in motor neuron death after traumatic spinal cord injury and phase II enzyme inducers show neuroprotective potential on motor neuron survival in traumatic spinal cord injury in vitro.
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- Xiao-Yun Liu
- Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, P.R. China
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Hachmeister JE, Valluru L, Bao F, Liu D. Mn (III) tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin administered into the intrathecal space reduces oxidative damage and neuron death after spinal cord injury: a comparison with methylprednisolone. J Neurotrauma 2007; 23:1766-78. [PMID: 17184187 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2006.23.1766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The metalloporphyrin Mn (III) tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin (MnTBAP) is a cell-permeable superoxide dismutase mimetic and a broad-spectrum scavenger of reactive species. Since MnTBAP may not cross the blood-brain barrier, this study evaluated the therapeutic potential of MnTBAP to treat spinal cord injury (SCI; 25 g x cm) by directly administering it into the intrathecal space of the rat spinal cord. The cells in spinal sections removed at 24 h post-SCI were immunohistochemically stained with anti-4-hydroxynonenal (HNE), a marker of membrane lipid peroxidation (MLP); anti-nitrotyrosine (Ntyr), a marker of protein nitration; and anti-neuron-specific enolase (NSE) antibodies. Immunostained neurons were counted for quantitative evaluation. Pre-treatment 30 min before SCI with 1 mg/kg MnTBAP or 4-h post-SCI treatment with 2.5 mg/kg MnTBAP administered into the intrathecal space significantly reduced MLP and protein nitration, and increased the number of surviving neurons compared to vehicle controls. However, post-SCI treatment with a standard regimen of methylprednisolone sodium succinate (MPSS; 30 mg/kg followed by 5.4 mg/kg for maintenance, iv administration), the only drug used for clinical treatment of SCI, not only did not reduce MLP and neuron loss, it increased protein nitration compared with vehicle controls (two-way analysis of variance [ANOVA] followed by the Tukey test). These results demonstrate that pre- and post-intrathecal treatments with the low doses of MnTBAP provide sustained neuroprotection by preventing oxidative stress and that post-treatment with MnTBAP is superior to post-treatment with MPSS in preventing oxidative stress and resulting neuron loss.
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- Jorge E Hachmeister
- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0881, USA
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Choo AM, Liu J, Lam CK, Dvorak M, Tetzlaff W, Oxland TR. Contusion, dislocation, and distraction: primary hemorrhage and membrane permeability in distinct mechanisms of spinal cord injury. J Neurosurg Spine 2007; 6:255-66. [PMID: 17355025 DOI: 10.3171/spi.2007.6.3.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In experimental models of spinal cord injury (SCI) researchers have typically focused on contusion and transection injuries. Clinically, however, other injury mechanisms such as fracture–dislocation and distraction also frequently occur. The objective of the present study was to compare the primary damage in three clinically relevant animal models of SCI.
Methods
Contusion, fracture–dislocation, and flexion–distraction animal models of SCI were developed. To visualize traumatic increases in cellular membrane permeability, fluorescein–dextran was infused into the cerebrospi-nal fluid prior to injury. High-speed injuries (approaching 100 cm/second) were produced in the cervical spine of deeply anesthetized Sprague–Dawley rats (28 SCI and eight sham treated) with a novel multimechanism SCI test system. The animals were killed immediately thereafter so that the authors could characterize the primary injury in the gray and white matter.
Sections stained with H & E showed that contusion and dislocation injuries resulted in similar central damage to the gray matter vasculature whereas no overt hemorrhage was detected following distraction. Contusion resulted in membrane disruption of neuronal somata and axons localized within 1 mm of the lesion epicenter. In contrast, membrane compromise in the dislocation and distraction models was observed to extend rostrally up to 5 mm, particularly in the ventral and lateral white matter tracts.
Conclusions
Given the pivotal nature of hemorrhagic necrosis and plasma membrane compromise in the initiation of downstream SCI pathomechanisms, the aforementioned differences suggest the presence of mechanism-specific injury regions, which may alter future clinical treatment paradigms.
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- Anthony M Choo
- Division of Orthopaedic Engineering Research, Department of Orthopaedics and Mechanical Engineering, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Pearse DD, Lo TP, Cho KS, Lynch MP, Garg MS, Marcillo AE, Sanchez AR, Cruz Y, Dietrich WD. Histopathological and Behavioral Characterization of a Novel Cervical Spinal Cord Displacement Contusion Injury in the Rat. J Neurotrauma 2005; 22:680-702. [PMID: 15941377 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2005.22.680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cervical contusive trauma accounts for the majority, of human spinal cord injury (SCI), yet experimental use of cervical contusion injury models has been limited. Considering that (1) the different ways of injuring the spinal cord (compression, contusion, and transection) induce very different processes of tissue damage and (2) the architecture of the spinal cord is not uniform, it is important to use a model that is more clinically applicable to human SCI. Therefore, in the current study we have developed a rat model of contusive, cervical SCI using the Electromagnetic Spinal Cord Injury Device (ESCID) developed at Ohio State University (OSU) to induce injury by spinal cord displacement. We used the device to perform mild, moderate and severe injuries (0.80, 0.95, and 1.1 mm displacements, respectively) with a single, brief displacement of <20 msec upon the exposed dorsal surface of the C5 cervical spinal cord of female (180-200 g) Fischer rats. Characterization of the model involved the analysis of the temporal histopathological progression of the injury over 9 weeks using histochemical stains to analyze white and gray mater integrity and immunohistochemistry to examine cellular changes and physiological responses within the injured spinal cord. Accompanying the histological analysis was a comprehensive determination of the behavioral functionality of the animals using a battery of motor tests. Characterization of this novel model is presented to enable and encourage its future use in the design and experimental testing of therapeutic strategies that may be used for human SCI.
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- D D Pearse
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA.
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Goforth PB, Ellis EF, Satin LS. Mechanical Injury Modulates AMPA Receptor Kinetics via an NMDA Receptor–Dependent Pathway. J Neurotrauma 2004; 21:719-32. [PMID: 15253800 DOI: 10.1089/0897715041269704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Alterations in glutamatergic transmission are thought to contribute to secondary neuronal damage following traumatic brain injury. Using an in vitro cell injury model, we previously demonstrated an apparent reduction in AMPA receptor desensitization and resultant potentiation of AMPA-evoked currents after stretch injury of cultured neonatal rat cortical neurons. In the present study, we sought to further characterize injury-induced enhancement of AMPA current and elucidate the mechanisms responsible for this pathological process. Using the patch-clamp technique, agonist-activated currents were recorded from control and injured neurons. Potentiation of AMPA-mediated currents occurred quickly, within 15-30 min following injury, and persisted for at least 24 h. Stretch-injury slowed the activation and desensitization of AMPA mediated currents recorded from excised outside-out patches. The co-application of 100 microM AMPA and 20 microM thiocyanate enhanced AMPA receptor desensitization in control neurons and restored desensitization in injured neurons. The potentiation of AMPA-elicited current was prevented by the NMDA receptor antagonist D-APV (20 microM) or the CaMKII inhibitor KN93 (10 microM). These results suggest that mechanical injury initiates a biochemical cascade that involves NMDA receptor and CaMKII activation and produces a long-lasting reduction of AMPA receptor desensitization, which may contribute to the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury.
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- Paulette B Goforth
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
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Papadopoulos SM, Selden NR, Quint DJ, Patel N, Gillespie B, Grube S. Immediate spinal cord decompression for cervical spinal cord injury: feasibility and outcome. THE JOURNAL OF TRAUMA 2002; 52:323-32. [PMID: 11834996 DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200202000-00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effect of immediate surgical spinal cord decompression on neurologic outcome after spinal cord injury is controversial. Experimental models strongly suggest a beneficial effect of early decompression but there is little supportive clinical evidence. This study is designed to evaluate the feasibility and outcome of an immediate spinal cord decompression treatment protocol for cervical spinal cord injury in a tertiary treatment center. METHODS To address this issue, 91 consecutive patients with acute, traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (1990-1997) were prospectively studied. Sixty-six patients (protocol group) underwent emergency magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the presence of persistent spinal cord compression followed, if indicated, by immediate operative decompression and stabilization. Twenty-five patients were managed outside the treatment protocol because of contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging, need for other emergency surgical procedures, or admitting surgeon preference (reference group). The protocol and reference groups had similar sex and age distributions, admitting Frankel grades, levels of neurologic injury, and Injury Severity Scores. RESULTS Twenty-seven percent of patients seen were not enrolled in the treatment protocol because of the need for other emergent surgical treatment, contraindication to MRI, and specific surgeon bias regarding the "futility" of emergent treatment. The neurologic outcome for the patients in the reference group were similar to that in the previously reported literature. Fifty percent of protocol patients, compared with only 24% of reference patients, improved from their admitting Frankel grade. Eight protocol patients (12%), but no reference patients, improved from complete motor quadriplegia (Frankel grade A or B) to independent ambulation (Frankel grade D or E). Protocol patients required shorter intensive care unit stays, and shorter total hospital stays than reference patients. In the treatment protocol group, spinal cord decompression, confirmed by MRI, was achieved with immediate spinal column alignment and skeletal traction in 32 patients (46%). Thirty-four patients (54%) required emergent operative spinal cord decompression because of MRI-documented persistent spinal cord compression. CONCLUSION We conclude that immediate spinal column stabilization and spinal cord decompression, based on magnetic resonance imaging, may significantly improve neurologic outcome. The feasibility of such a treatment protocol in a tertiary treatment center is well demonstrated. Additional multicenter trials are necessary to achieve definitive conclusions regarding clinical efficacy.
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- Stephen M Papadopoulos
- Department of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Liu D, Li B, Liu Y, Attele AS, Kyle JW, Yuan CS. Voltage-dependent inhibition of brain Na(+) channels by American ginseng. Eur J Pharmacol 2001; 413:47-54. [PMID: 11173062 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(01)00735-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is a major species of ginseng that has many pharmacological effects. Studies have demonstrated that constituents of ginseng have neuroprotective effects during ischemia. Neuronal damage during ischemic episodes has been associated with abnormal Na(+) fluxes. Drugs that block voltage-dependent Na(+) channels provide cytoprotection during cerebral ischemia. We thus hypothesized that American ginseng may block Na(+) channels. In this study, effects of an American ginseng aqueous extract was evaluated in tsA201 cells transfected with cDNA expressing alpha subunits of the Brain(2a) Na(+) channel using the whole-cell patch clamp technique. We found that American ginseng extract tonically and reversibly blocked the channel in a concentration- and voltage-dependent manner. It shifted the voltage-dependence of inactivation by 14 mV (3 mg/ml) in the hyperpolarizing direction and delayed recovery from inactivation, whereas activation of the channel was unaffected. Ginsenoside Rb(1), a major constituent of the American ginseng extract, produced similar effects. The data were compared with the actions of lidocaine, a Na(+) channel blocker. Our results suggest that Na(+) channel block by American ginseng extract and Rb(1) was primarily due to interaction with the inactive state of the channel. Inhibition of the Na(+) channel activity by American ginseng extract may contribute to its neuroprotective effect during ischemia.
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- D Liu
- Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, The Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Kaptanoglu E, Caner HH, Sürücü HS, Akbiyik F. Effect of mexiletine on lipid peroxidation and early ultrastructural findings in experimental spinal cord injury. J Neurosurg 1999; 91:200-4. [PMID: 10505505 DOI: 10.3171/spi.1999.91.2.0200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECT The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mexiletine on lipid peroxidation and on ultrastructural findings after induced spinal cord injury (SCI). The authors also compared the activity of mexiletine to that of the well-known antioxidant, methylprednisolone sodium succinate (MPSS). METHODS Wistar rats were divided into seven groups, (Groups 1-7). Those in Groups 1 and 2 were control animals that underwent laminectomy only, after which nontraumatized spinal cord samples were obtained immediately (Group 1) and 2 hours postsurgery (Group 2). Spinal cord injury was induced in all other groups, and cord samples were obtained at 2 hours postsurgery. The rats in Group 3 underwent SCI alone; those in Group 4 received 30 mg/kg of MPSS intraperitoneally immediately after trauma was induced; and those in Groups 5, 6, and 7 received 1, 10, and 50 mg/kg of mexiletine, respectively, by intraperitoneal injection immediately after trauma was induced. Compared with the levels in control animals, lipid peroxidation was significantly elevated in rats in Groups 3 and 5, but there were no statistical differences among those in Groups 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 in this regard. Compared with the findings in rats in Group 3, ultrastructural damage post-SCI was minor in rats in Groups 4 and 5, and there was even less damage evident in rats in Group 7. CONCLUSIONS Analysis of these findings showed that administration of 50 mg/kg mexiletine significantly decreased the level of lipid peroxidation and protected spinal cord ultrastructure following SCI.
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- E Kaptanoglu
- Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara Numune Hospital, Turkey
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Liu D, Liu J, Wen J. Elevation of hydrogen peroxide after spinal cord injury detected by using the Fenton reaction. Free Radic Biol Med 1999; 27:478-82. [PMID: 10468225 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-5849(99)00073-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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To reveal whether reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a role after spinal cord injury, we developed a unique method for assaying hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and determined the time course of its concentration changes following impact injury to the rat spinal cord. Microdialysis was used to sample H2O2 in the extracellular space and the dialysates were collected into a vial containing salicylate and ferrous chloride (FeCl2). H2O2 collected in the vial was converted to hydroxyl radicals (*OH) by FeCl2 catalysis. 2,3- and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid produced by reaction of *OH with salicylate in the collecting vial were measured by HPLC and calibrated to H2O2 concentrations. The postinjury levels of H2O2 were significantly increased (p = 0.02) for over 11 h. FeCl2 administered through the dialysis fiber catalyzes H2O2 conversion in the cord to *OH. This *OH does not reach the collecting vial due to its extremely short lifetime (nanoseconds). The reduced H2O2 levels in the vials validate the measurement of H2O2. The relatively long-lasting formation of H2O2 and superoxide reported herein and previously suggests that ROS may be important in secondary spinal cord damage and that removal of ROS may be a realistic treatment strategy for reducing injury caused by free radicals.
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- D Liu
- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0653, USA.
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Fehlings MG, Tator CH. An evidence-based review of decompressive surgery in acute spinal cord injury: rationale, indications, and timing based on experimental and clinical studies. J Neurosurg 1999; 91:1-11. [PMID: 10419353 DOI: 10.3171/spi.1999.91.1.0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECT The authors conducted an evidence-based review of the literature to evaluate critically the rationale and indications for and the timing of decompressive surgery for the treatment of acute, nonpenetrating spinal cord injury (SCI). METHODS The experimental and clinical literature concerning the role of, and the biological rationale for, surgical decompression for acute SCI was reviewed. Clinical studies of nonoperative management of SCI were also examined for comparative purposes. Evidence from clinical trials was categorized as Class I (well-conducted randomized prospective trials), Class II (well-designed comparative clinical studies), or Class II (retrospective studies). Examination of studies in which animal models of SCI were used consistently demonstrated a beneficial effect of early decompressive surgery, although it is difficult to apply these data directly to the clinical setting. The clinical studies provided suggestive (Class III and limited Class II) evidence that decompressive procedures improve neurological recovery after SCI. However, no clear consensus can be inferred from the literature as to the optimum timing for decompressive surgery. Many authors have advocated delayed treatment to avoid medical complications, although good evidence from recent Class II trials indicates that early decompressive surgery can be performed safely without causing added morbidity or mortality. CONCLUSIONS There is biological evidence from experimental studies in animals that early decompressive surgery may improve neurological recovery after SCI, although the relevant interventional timing in humans remains unclear. To date, the role of surgical decompression in patients with SCI is only supported by Class III and limited Class II evidence. Accordingly, decompressive surgery for SCI can only be considered a practice option. Furthermore, analysis of the literature does not allow definite conclusions to be drawn regarding appropriate timing of intervention. Hence, there is a need to conduct well-designed experimental and clinical studies of the timing and neurological results of decompressive surgery for the treatment of acute SCI.
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- M G Fehlings
- Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, Toronto Hospital and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Drugs in the Management of Cute Traumatic Brain Injury. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s1047-9651(18)30294-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Traumatic injury to the central nervous system induces delayed neuronal death, which may be mediated by acute and chronic neurochemical changes. Experimental identification of these injury mechanisms and elucidation of the neurochemical cascade following trauma may provide enhanced opportunities for treatment with novel neuroprotective strategies.
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- T K McIntosh
- Department of Neurosurgery, Bioengineering, and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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Tavalin SJ, Ellis EF, Satin LS. Inhibition of the electrogenic Na pump underlies delayed depolarization of cortical neurons after mechanical injury or glutamate. J Neurophysiol 1997; 77:632-8. [PMID: 9065836 DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.2.632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We previously characterized the electrophysiological response of cortical neurons to a brief sublethal stretch-injury using an in vitro model of traumatic brain injury. This model revealed that cortical neurons undergo a stretch-induced delayed depolarization (SIDD) of their resting membrane potential (RMP) which is approximately 10 mV in magnitude. SIDD is dependent on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activation, neuronal firing, and extracellular calcium for its induction but not its maintenance. SIDD was maximal 1 h after the insult and required incubation at 37 degrees C. The present study examined the mechanism mediating SIDD and its relation to glutamate receptor activation. The Na pump inhibitor ouabain was used to assess the contribution of the Na pump to the RMP of control and stretched neurons using whole cell patch-clamp techniques. The nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor N omega-nitro-L-arginine and a polyethylene glycol conjugate of superoxide dismutase were used to assess whether NO or superoxide anion, respectively, were involved in the induction of SIDD. Neurons were exposed to exogenous glutamate in the absence of cell stretch to determine whether glutamate alone can mimic SIDD. We report that SIDD is mediated by Na pump inhibition and is likely to result from reduced energy levels since the RMP of neurons dialyzed with a pipette solution containing 5 mM ATP were identical to controls. NO, but not superoxide anion, also may contribute to SIDD. A 3-min exposure to 10 microM glutamate produced a SIDD-like depolarization also associated with Na pump inhibition. The results suggest that Na pump inhibition secondary to alterations in cellular energetics underlies SIDD. Na pump inhibition due to glutamate exposure may contribute to traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases linked to glutamate receptor activation.
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- S J Tavalin
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298-0524, USA
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Mackenzie CF, Smalley AJ, Barnas GM, Park SG. Tetrodotoxin infusion: nonventilatory effects and role in toxicity models. Acad Emerg Med 1996; 3:1106-12. [PMID: 8959164 DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03369.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To determine the cardiovascular, autonomic, and neuromuscular effects of an IV infusion of tetrodotoxin (TTX) when ventilation is supported. METHODS TTX was infused in 18 anesthetized beagles during conventional mechanical ventilation. TTX infusion continued at a rate of 9.3 micrograms/kg/hr until apnea occurred with 1 minute of ventilator disconnection. Measurements included intravascular pressures, heart rate (HR), cardiac output, blood gases, displacements of the rib cage and abdomen, O2 delivery, and responses to train-of-four and tetanic peripheral nerve stimulation. Results are expressed as mean +/- SD. RESULTS During TTX infusion, all the dogs had discoordinate movements of the rib cage, abdomen, and limbs. Vomiting, urination, defecation, and increased salivation occurred. Nicotinic and muscarinic effects, neuromuscular blockade, and cardiovascular depression were produced by TTX. Apnea occurred in 72.0 +/- 17.0 minutes when a total of 119.0 +/- 17.4 micrograms of TTX was infused. At apnea, decreases in arterial pressure, cardiac index, HR, O2 delivery, and systemic vascular resistance occurred, while pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance increased. Loss of response to tetanic stimulation was closely correlated with the dose of TTX that produced apnea. CONCLUSION The clinical symptoms and signs of TTX poisoning are similar to those of anticholinesterase poisons, and TTX dosing as described by this model may serve as a surrogate for organophosphorus poisoning. The model may be useful to determine optimum therapies for TTX poisoning and, since TTX prevents sodium influx into cells, to investigate enhanced survival in animals suffering from ischemia.
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- C F Mackenzie
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Baltimore, USA.
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Mikawa S, Kinouchi H, Kamii H, Gobbel GT, Chen SF, Carlson E, Epstein CJ, Chan PH. Attenuation of acute and chronic damage following traumatic brain injury in copper, zinc-superoxide dismutase transgenic mice. J Neurosurg 1996; 85:885-91. [PMID: 8893728 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.5.0885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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To elucidate the role of oxygen-derived free radicals and superoxide dismutase in traumatic brain injury (TBI), blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, brain edema, behavioral function, and necrotic cavity volume (CV) were evaluated after TBI using nontransgenic (nTg) mice and heterozygous and homozygous transgenic (Tg) mice with a 1.5- (Tg 1.5x), 3.1-(Tg3.1x) and five- (Tg5x) fold increase in human copper, zinc-superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD) activity. Traumatic brain injury was produced by the weight-drop method. Evans blue dye leakage 4 hours after injury was attenuated in a CuZn-SOD dose-dependent manner with decreases of 18.6%, 40.9%, and 48.8%, in the Tg1.5x, Tg3.1x, and Tg5x groups, respectively. The water content 6 hours after injury in the Tg3.1x (79.64%) and Tg5x (79.45%) groups was significantly lower than in nTg mice (81.37%). There was an initial decrease in body weight and in motor performance, as measured by beam walk and beam balance tasks undertaken 1 day after TBI. However, the average reduction in beam balance and beam walk performance deficits and changes in body weight postinjury were significantly ameliorated in Tg mice. The CV was significantly smaller in Tg mice than in nTg mice (p < 0.01). These results indicate that superoxide radicals play a deleterious role following TBI. Furthermore, Tg mice provide a useful model for demonstrating the beneficial role of an antioxidant enzyme in TBI without the confounding effect of pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and BBB permeability associated with exogenous agents.
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- S Mikawa
- Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Stys PK, Lesiuk H. Correlation between electrophysiological effects of mexiletine and ischemic protection in central nervous system white matter. Neuroscience 1996; 71:27-36. [PMID: 8834390 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00430-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Protection of CNS white matter tracts in brain and spinal cord is essential for maximizing clinical recovery from disorders such as stroke or spinal cord injury. Central myelinated axons are damaged by anoxia/ischemia in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Leakage of Na+ into the axoplasm through Na+ channels causes Ca2+ overload mainly by reverse Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange. Na+ channel blockers have thus been shown to be protective in an in vitro anoxic rat optic nerve model. Mexiletine (10 microM-1 mM), an antiarrhythmic and use-dependent Na+ channel blocker, was also significantly protective, as measured by recovery of the compound action potential after a 60 min anoxic exposure in vitro. More importantly, mexiletine (80 mg/kg, i.p.) also significantly protected optic nerves from injury in a model of in situ ischemia. This in situ model is more clinically relevant as it addresses drug pharmacokinetics, toxicity and CNS penetration. Optic nerve recovery cycles (defined as shifts in latency of compound action potentials with paired stimulation) were used to measure the concentration of mexiletine in optic nerves after systemic administration, estimated at approximately 42 microM 1 h after a single dose of 80 mg/kg, i.p. These results indicate that mexiletine is able to penetrate into the CNS at concentrations sufficient to confer significant protection. Na+ channel blockers such as mexiletine may prove to be effective clinical therapeutic agents for protecting CNS white matter tracts against anoxic/ischemic injury.
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- P K Stys
- Division of Neuroscience, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Irreversible anoxic injury is dependent on extracellular Ca2+ in mammalian CNS white matter, with a large portion of the pathologic Ca2+ influx occurring through reverse Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange, stimulated by increased intracellular [Na+]. This Na+ leak likely occurs via incompletely inactivated voltage-gated Na+ channels. This study reports that clinically used antiarrhythmic compounds, likely by virtue of their Na+ channel-blocking properties, significantly protect CNS white matter from anoxia at concentrations that cause little suppression of the preanoxic response. Rat optic nerves were pretreated with various agents for 60 min, then subjected to 60 min of anoxia in vitro. Functional recovery was measured electrophysiologically as the area under the compound action potential (CAP). Without drug, the CAP areas recovered to a mean of 32 +/- 12% of control after 1 h of reoxygenation. Recoveries using prajmaline 10 microM were 82 +/- 15% (p < 0.0001), and using tocainide 1 mM, 78 +/- 8% (p < 0.0001), with little suppression (< or = 10%) of the preanoxic response. Ajmaline (10-100 microM), disopyramide (10-300 microM) and bupivacaine (10-100 microM) were somewhat less effective, whereas verapamil produced 52 +/- 11% recovery before reduction of the preanoxic CAP was observed at 30 microM. Procainamide (100-300 microM) was ineffective. These results suggest that Na+ channel blockers, including commonly used antiarrhythmic agents, may be effective in protecting central white matter, which is a target for anoxic/ischemic injury in diseases such as stroke and spinal cord injury.
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- P K Stys
- Loeb Research Institute, Neuroscience Division, Ottawa Civic Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Colak A, Nurlu G, Açikgöz B, Ozcan OE. Efficacy of high dose amino acid solution on spinal cord injury induced by focal Nd:YAG laser irradiation. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1995; 133:73-9. [PMID: 8561042 DOI: 10.1007/bf01404952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In this experimental study, a neodymium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser was used to induce highly reproducible focal spinal cord lesions in anaesthetized guinea pigs. The efficacy of high dose amino acid solution (HDAAS) on this injury is investigated. Experiments were performed on 36 animals divided into three groups; sham operated controls, laser irradiated surgical controls, and amino acid groups. Acute responses to injury were evaluated with somatosensory (SSEP) and motor evoked potentials (MEP) and functional recovery was assessed for 8 weeks using the inclined plane technique. In the laser irradiated surgical control group, MEP disappeared one hour after the laser injury, but SSEP revealed changes of amplitude and latency. In this group, the average value of the inclined plane at 24 hours after the laser application was 45.3 +/- 1.4 degrees. In the amino acid group, at the sixth hour of injury, MEP and SSEP changes improved with infusion of HDAAS for 4 hours. This improvement was statistically significant (for latency of SSEP U = 140 p < 0.05). Inclined plane value at 24 hours after the laser application was 65.5 +/- 1.2 degrees in this group. This study showed that application of Nd:YAG laser irradiation on the spinal cord induced spinal cord injury which presented as paraparesis, HDAAS may provide significant therapeutic protection in secondary damage following this injury and may have a potential role in the treatment of acute spinal cord injury.
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- A Colak
- Department of Neurosurgery, Inönü University, School of Medicine, Malatya, Ankara, Turkey
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Falconer JC, Narayana PA, Bhattacharjee MB, Liu SJ. Quantitative MRI of spinal cord injury in a rat model. Magn Reson Med 1994; 32:484-91. [PMID: 7997114 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910320410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Sequential in vivo MRI studies of experimental spinal cord injuries (SCI) were performed using a three-dimensional implementation of the FATE (Fast low-Angle spin echo sequence with short TE) sequence. MRI-observed pathology was quantified using a multispectral segmentation algorithm. Neurological analysis was performed on the same animals concurrently, in addition to end-point histology, for comparison with quantitative MRI results. These studies suggest that it is possible to use MRI to detect the onset of secondary injury in the spinal cord. The data also indicate that early detection of MRI-visible pathology may provide the necessary markers for predicting the long-term level of neurologic deficit.
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- J C Falconer
- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston 77030
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Francel PC, Long BA, Malik JM, Tribble C, Jane JA, Kron IL. Limiting ischemic spinal cord injury using a free radical scavenger 21-aminosteroid and/or cerebrospinal fluid drainage. J Neurosurg 1993; 79:742-51. [PMID: 8410254 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1993.79.5.0742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Traumatic spinal cord injury occurs in two phases: biomechanical injury, followed by ischemia and reperfusion injury. Biomechanical injury to the spinal cord, preceded or followed by various pharmaceutical manipulations or interventions, has been studied, but the ischemia/reperfusion aspect of spinal cord injury isolated from the biomechanical injury has not been previously evaluated. In the current study, ischemia to the lumbar spinal cord was induced in albino rabbits via infrarenal aortic occlusion, and two interventions were analyzed: the use of U74006F (Tirilazad mesylate), a 21-aminosteroid, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage. These treatment modalities were tested alone or in combination. In Phase 1 of this study, the rabbits received 1.0 mg/kg of Tirilazad or an equal volume of vehicle (controls) prior to the actual occlusion, three doses of Tirilazad (1 mg/kg each) during the occlusion, then several doses after the occlusion. Of the Tirilazad-treated animals, 30% became paraplegic while 70% of the control animals became paraplegic. Phase 2 involved the same doses of Tirilazad as in Phase 1 and, in addition, CSF pressure monitoring and drainage were performed. The paraplegia rate was 79% in the control animals, 36% in the group receiving Tirilazad alone, 25% in the group with CSF drainage alone, and 20% in the Tirilazad plus CSF drainage group. This rate also correlated with changes noted in CSF pressure; both Tirilazad administration alone and CSF drainage alone induced a decrease in CSF pressure and the two combined produced a further decrease. There was marked improvement in the perfusion pressure when using Tirilazad alone, CSF drainage alone, and Tirilazad therapy in combination with CSF drainage, with the last group producing the largest increase. This change in CSF pressure and perfusion pressure correlated with improved functional neurological outcome. Pathological examination revealed that Tirilazad therapy reduced the extensive and diffuse neuronal, glial, and endothelial damage to (in its most severe form) a more patchy focal region of damage in the gray matter. Cerebrospinal fluid drainage resulted in pyknosis of some motor neurons, and some eosinophilia. The combination of CSF drainage and Tirilazad administration resulted in the least abnormality, with either normal or near-normal spinal cords. It is concluded that Tirilazad administration decreased CSF pressure during spinal cord ischemia and reperfusion and, like CSF drainage, increased and improved the perfusion pressure to the spinal cord, decreased spinal cord damage, and improved functional outcome.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- P C Francel
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville
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Shapira Y, Lam AM, Artru AA, Eng C, Soltow L. Ketamine alters calcium and magnesium in brain tissue following experimental head trauma in rats. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1993; 13:962-8. [PMID: 8408321 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.1993.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We previously reported that the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists dizocilpine maleate and ketamine improved the neurological severity score (NSS) after head trauma in rats. Other investigators have reported increased calcium and decreased magnesium following head trauma in untreated rats. The present study was designed to determine whether ketamine influences the concentrations of calcium and magnesium in brain tissue following head trauma. Eighty-six male Sprague-Dawley rats (180 +/- 15 g) were divided into eight groups. Groups A (no head injury) and C (head injury) received no treatment. Groups B (no head injury) and D-H (head injury) received ketamine. In groups D, E, and F, ketamine, 180 mg/kg i.p., was given 1, 2, and 4 h after head trauma, respectively. In groups G and H, ketamine, 120 and 60 mg/kg, respectively, was given 1 h after head trauma. After we killed the rats at 48 h, cortical slices were taken to measure tissue calcium and magnesium content by the inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy method. In the contused hemispheres, calcium increased and magnesium decreased (p < 0.0001). Among the head-injured groups, the increase in brain tissue calcium was smaller in groups receiving 60 mg/kg of ketamine at 1 h or 180 mg/kg of ketamine at 1, 2, or 4 h than in the group not receiving ketamine. The decrease in brain tissue magnesium was smaller in the groups receiving 180 mg/kg of ketamine at 1 and 2 h than in the group not receiving ketamine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- Y Shapira
- Department of Anesthesiology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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The membrane of the myelinated axon expresses a rich repertoire of physiologically active molecules: (1) Voltage-sensitive NA+ channels are clustered at high density (approximately 1,000/microns 2) in the nodal axon membrane and are present at lower density (< 25/microns 2) in the internodal axon membrane under the myelin. Na+ channels are also present within Schwann cell processes (in peripheral nerve) and perinodal astrocyte processes (in the central nervous system) which contact the Na+ channel-rich axon membrane at the node. In some demyelinated fibers, the bared (formerly internodal) axon membrane reorganizes and expresses a higher-than-normal Na+ channel density, providing a basis for restoration of conduction. The presence of glial cell processes, adjacent to foci of Na+ channels in immature and demyelinated axons, suggests that glial cells participate in the clustering of Na+ channels in the axon membrane. (2) "Fast" K+ channels, sensitive to 4-aminopyridine, are present in the paranodal or internodal axon membrane under the myelin; these channels may function to prevent reexcitation following action potentials, or participate in the generation of an internodal resting potential. (3) "Slow" K+ channels, sensitive to tetraethylammonium, are present in the nodal axon membrane and, in lower densities, in the internodal axon membrane; their activation produces a hyperpolarizing afterpotential which modulates repetitive firing. (4) The "inward rectifier" is activated by hyperpolarization. This channel is permeable to both Na+ and K+ ions and may modulate axonal excitability or participate in ionic reuptake following activity. (5) Na+/K(+)-ATPase and (6) Ca(2+)-ATPase are also present in the axon membrane and function to maintain transmembrane gradients of Na+, K+, and Ca2+. (7) A specialized antiporter molecule, the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, is present in myelinated axons within central nervous system white matter. Following anoxia, the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger mediates an influx of Ca2+ which damages the axon. The molecular organization of the myelinated axon has important pathophysiological implications. Blockade of fast K+ channels and Na+/K(+)-ATPase improves action potential conduction in some demyelinated axons, and block of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger protects white matter axons from anoxic injury. Modification of ion channels, pumps, and exchangers in myelinated fibers may thus provide an important therapeutic approach for a number of neurological disorders.
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- S G Waxman
- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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Soares HD, Thomas M, Cloherty K, McIntosh TK. Development of prolonged focal cerebral edema and regional cation changes following experimental brain injury in the rat. J Neurochem 1992; 58:1845-52. [PMID: 1560237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1992.tb10061.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The present study examined the formation of regional cerebral edema in adult rats subjected to lateral (parasagittal) experimental fluid-percussion brain injury. Animals receiving fluid-percussion brain injury of moderate severity over the left parietal cortex were assayed for brain water content at 6 h, 24 h, and 2, 3, 5, and 7 days post injury. Regional sodium and potassium concentrations were measured in a separate group of animals at 10 min, 1 h, 6 h, and 24 h following fluid-percussion injury. Injured parietal cortex demonstrated significant edema, beginning at 6 h post injury (p less than 0.05) and persisting up to 5 days post injury. In the hippocampus ipsilateral to the site of cortical injury, significant edema occurred as early as 1 h post injury (p less than 0.05), with resolution of water accumulation beginning at 3 days. Sodium concentrations significantly increased in both injured cortex (1 h post injury, p less than 0.05) and injured hippocampus (10 min post injury, p less than 0.05). Potassium concentrations fell significantly 1 h post injury within the injured cortex (p less than 0.05), whereas significant decreases were not observed until 24 h post injury within the injured hippocampus. Cation alterations persisted throughout the 24-h post injury period. These results demonstrate that regional brain edema and cation deregulation occur in rats subjected to lateral fluid-percussion brain injury and that these changes may persist for a prolonged period after brain injury.
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- H D Soares
- Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030-9984
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Waxman SG, Ransom BR, Stys PK. Non-synaptic mechanisms of Ca(2+)-mediated injury in CNS white matter. Trends Neurosci 1991; 14:461-8. [PMID: 1722366 DOI: 10.1016/0166-2236(91)90046-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Clinical deficits after injury to the CNS are due, in large part, to dysfunction of white matter (myelinated fiber tracts), including descending and ascending tracts in the spinal cord. A crucial set of questions, in the search for strategies that will preserve or restore function after CNS injury, centers on the pathophysiology of, and mechanisms underlying recovery of conduction in, CNS white matter. These questions are relevant both to spinal cord injury, and to brain infarction, which frequently affects white matter.
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- S G Waxman
- Dept of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Stys PK, Waxman SG, Ransom BR. Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger mediates Ca2+ influx during anoxia in mammalian central nervous system white matter. Ann Neurol 1991; 30:375-80. [PMID: 1952825 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410300309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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White matter of the mammalian central nervous system suffers irreversible injury after prolonged anoxia, which can result in severe neurological impairment. This type of injury is critically dependent on Ca2+ influx into cells. We present evidence that the Na+,Ca2+ exchanger mediates the majority of the damaging Ca2+ influx into cells during anoxia in white matter. Anoxic injury was studied in the isolated rat optic nerve, and functional recovery was monitored using the compound action potential. Blockers of voltage-gated Na+ channels (tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin) significantly improved recovery, as did perfusion with zero-Na+ solution; both maneuvers would prevent intracellular [Na+] from rising and thus prevent Ca2+ influx by inhibiting reverse operation of the Na+,Ca2+ exchanger. Direct pharmacological blockade of the Na+,Ca2+ exchanger during anoxia with bepridil or benzamil also significantly improved recovery. These findings suggest that reverse operation of the Na+,Ca2+ exchanger during anoxia is a critical mechanism of Ca2+ influx and subsequent white matter injury.
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- P K Stys
- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Tator CH, Fehlings MG. Review of the secondary injury theory of acute spinal cord trauma with emphasis on vascular mechanisms. J Neurosurg 1991; 75:15-26. [PMID: 2045903 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1991.75.1.0015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1051] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In patients with spinal cord injury, the primary or mechanical trauma seldom causes total transection, even though the functional loss may be complete. In addition, biochemical and pathological changes in the cord may worsen after injury. To explain these phenomena, the concept of the secondary injury has evolved for which numerous pathophysiological mechanisms have been postulated. This paper reviews the concept of secondary injury with special emphasis on vascular mechanisms. Evidence is presented to support the theory of secondary injury and the hypothesis that a key mechanism is posttraumatic ischemia with resultant infarction of the spinal cord. Evidence for the role of vascular mechanisms has been obtained from a variety of models of acute spinal cord injury in several species. Many different angiographic methods have been used for assessing microcirculation of the cord and for measuring spinal cord blood flow after trauma. With these techniques, the major systemic and local vascular effects of acute spinal cord injury have been identified and implicated in the etiology of secondary injury. The systemic effects of acute spinal cord injury include hypotension and reduced cardiac output. The local effects include loss of autoregulation in the injured segment of the spinal cord and a marked reduction of the microcirculation in both gray and white matter, especially in hemorrhagic regions and in adjacent zones. The microcirculatory loss extends for a considerable distance proximal and distal to the site of injury. Many studies have shown a dose-dependent reduction of spinal cord blood flow varying with the severity of injury, and a reduction of spinal cord blood flow which worsens with time after injury. The functional deficits due to acute spinal cord injury have been measured electrophysiologically with techniques such as motor and somatosensory evoked potentials and have been found proportional to the degree of posttraumatic ischemia. The histological effects include early hemorrhagic necrosis leading to major infarction at the injury site. These posttraumatic vascular effects can be treated. Systemic normotension can be restored with volume expansion or vasopressors, and spinal cord blood flow can be improved with dopamine, steroids, nimodipine, or volume expansion. The combination of nimodipine and volume expansion improves posttraumatic spinal cord blood flow and spinal cord function measured by evoked potentials. These results provide strong evidence that posttraumatic ischemia is an important secondary mechanism of injury, and that it can be counteracted.
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- C H Tator
- Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Azmitia EC, Frankfurt M, Davila M, Whitaker-Azmitia PM, Zhou FC. Plasticity of fetal and adult CNS serotonergic neurons: role of growth-regulatory factors. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1990; 600:343-63; discussion 363-5. [PMID: 1979212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb16894.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- E C Azmitia
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York 10003
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Amagasa M, Ogawa A, Yoshimoto T. Effects of calcium and calcium antagonists against deprivation of glucose and oxygen in guinea pig hippocampal slices. Brain Res 1990; 526:1-7. [PMID: 2078810 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(90)90242-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To provide evidence to support the calcium hypothesis of cerebral ischemia, we examined the effects of extracellular calcium and calcium antagonists (verapamil, flunarizine, nicardipine) on in vitro 'ischemia' using guinea pig hippocampal slices. As a model of in vivo ischemia we used a state of both glucose and oxygen deprivation. Recovery of dentate antidromic field response and histological changes were used as indices of cell damage. After 10 min of deprivation in standard Krebs-Ringer solution, the field potentials exhibited minimum recovery and dentate neurons were severely damaged. Damaged neurons had pyknotic nuclei and swollen cytoplasms. Drugs were added and the calcium concentration was changed during 30 min of pre-deprivation and during deprivation. In the first experiment we demonstrated that pre-treated calcium antagonists protect the dentate granule cells against glucose and oxygen deprivation. The order of the protective potency was flunarizine greater than verapamil much greater than nicardipine. In the second experiment we also showed that neuronal damage caused by deprivation is dependent on the extracellular concentration of calcium. Our data show that extracellular calcium is partially responsible for 'ischemic' neuronal injury in the hippocampal slice. Both low calcium and voltage-gated calcium channel blockers can preserve an antidromic population spike. Conversely, high calcium in the bath can worsen the damage caused by in vitro 'ischemia' to hippocampal slices.
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- M Amagasa
- Division of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Mcintosh TK, Vink R, Soares H, Hayes R, Simon R. Effects of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blocker MK-801 on neurologic function after experimental brain injury. J Neurotrauma 1989; 6:247-59. [PMID: 2559212 DOI: 10.1089/neu.1989.6.247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Pharmacologic inhibition of excitatory amino acid (EAA) neurotransmission attenuates cell death in models of global and focal ischemia and hypoglycemia and improves neurologic outcome after experimental traumatic spinal cord injury. The present study examined the effects of the noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker MK-801 on cardiovascular and neurologic function after experimental fluid-percussion (FP) brain injury in the rat. Animals received either an intravenous bolus of MK-801 (1 mg/kg) or saline (equal volume) 15 min prior to FP brain injury or 15 min following FP brain injury. MK-801 pretreatment significantly improved postinjury cardiovascular variables and attenuated postinjury neurologic dysfunction. Postinjury treatment with MK-801 also significantly improved cardiovascular variables, but had little effect on postinjury neurologic scores. These results suggest that EAA neurotransmitters may be involved in the pathophysiological sequelae of traumatic brain injury and that noncompetitive blockade of the NMDA receptor prior to brain injury may reduce EAA-induced damage and limit neurologic dysfunction.
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- T K Mcintosh
- Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington
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Azmitia EC, Whitaker-Azmitia PM, Bartus R. Use of tissue culture models to study neuronal regulatory trophic and toxic factors in the aged brain. Neurobiol Aging 1988; 9:743-58. [PMID: 3062480 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-4580(88)80142-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Dementia is believed to result from the loss of selective neurons within the brain, but approaches for systematic study of that degenerative process are hampered by the complexity of the neuronal milieu. Tissue culture models provide a means to reduce dramatically the variables inherent in the study of neuronal plasticity. Three levels of complexity can be described: cellular and molecular diversity; primary and secondary interconnections; and finally, the dynamics influenced by age. The following review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of tissue culture models for the detailed study of neuronal trophic and toxic factors. Our selection of factors is broadened to include ions, intermediate metabolites, antioxidants, steroids, neuropeptides, gangliosides, metals, neurotransmitters, brain extracts, and protein molecules. Most of these factors have been shown to be altered in the aged brain, to have a significant effect on cultured neurons, or both. This multilevel analysis provides the reader with an overview of the events regulating neuronal survival, differentiation and death. An understanding of these basic questions is necessary to sequence the molecular events resulting in neuronal death.
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- E C Azmitia
- Department of Biology, New York University, NY 10003
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Bernstein JJ. Regeneration and grafting. J Neurotrauma 1988; 5:229-34. [PMID: 3246698 DOI: 10.1089/neu.1988.5.229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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