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- Sharma, Hari Shanker, et al.
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Neuroprotective effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibitors in spinal cord injury-induced pathophysiology and motor functions: An experimental study in the rat.
- 2005
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Ingår i: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0077-8923 .- 1749-6632. ; 1053, s. 422-434
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of nitric oxide (NO) in spinal cord injury (SCI)-induced motor dysfunction, breakdown of the blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB), edema formation, and cell injury was examined using a pharmacological approach. We used three types of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors: a nonselective blocker, L-NAME; an irreversible inhibitor of all isoforms of NOS, L-NMMA; and a long-term competitive inhibitor of neuronal NOS with equal potency to inhibit endothelial NOS, L-NNA. The compounds were administered once daily in separate groups of rats for 7 days. On the 8th day, SCI was performed by making a longitudinal incision into the right dorsal horn of the T10-11 segments, and the rats were allowed to survive 5 h after injury. Long-term treatment with L-NNA attenuated SCI-induced NOS upregulation, BSCB breakdown, edema formation, and cell injury, whereas comparatively less neuroprotection is offered by L-NMMA. The magnitude of neuroprotection is much less evident in injured animals that received L-NAME. Interestingly, SCI-induced motor dysfunction measured according to the Tarlov scale showed close correlation with the magnitude of neuroprotection. Thus, an improvement in motor function was seen in animals pretreated with L-NNA, whereas rats treated with L-NAME or L-NMMA did not show any influence on motor dysfunction after SCI. This observation suggests that inhibition of neuronal NOS is important for neuro-protection, and the disturbances in motor function following SCI are associated with the state of spinal cord pathology.
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- Winkler, T, et al.
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An L-type calcium channel blocker, nimodipine influences trauma induced spinal cord conduction and axonal injury in the rat.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Acta Neurochirurgica: Brain Edema XII Supplment. ; 86, s. 425-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The influence of the potent L-type Ca[2+] channel antagonist Nimodipine on spinal cord evoked potentials (SCEP) and axonal injury following trauma to the spinal cord was examined in a rat model. Spinal cord injury (SCI) was produced by an incision into the right dorsal horn of the T10-11 segments under urethane anaesthesia (1.5 g/kg, i.p.). SCEPs were recorded by epidural electrodes placed over the T9 (rostral) and T12 (caudal) segments after stimulation of the right tibial and sural nerves. SCI induced a pronounced decrease of the SCEP negative amplitude in the rostral (T9) recordings immediately after trauma. Axonal injury seen as degradation of myelin basic protein (MBP) immunostaining and myelin vesiculation at the ultrastructural level was most pronounced at 5 h. Continuous administration of Nimodipine (2 microg/kg/min, i.v.) from 30 min prior to injury until sacrifice markedly attenuated the changes in SCEP amplitude and latency. Axonal damage, loss of MBP, and myelin vesiculation were much less evident in the nimodipine treated traumatised rats. These observations suggest that Ca[2+] channels play an important role in the trauma induced alterations in SCEP and axonal injury, and indicate a therapeutic value of Ca[2+] blockers in SCI.
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