| Literature DB >> 21505480 |
Ulrike Hoffmann1, Jeong Hyun Lee, Tao Qin, Katharina Eikermann-Haerter, Cenk Ayata.
Abstract
Spreading depression (SD) is an intense depolarization wave implicated in brain injury. In focal ischemia, recurrent peri-infarct depolarization (PID) waves akin to SD worsen the ischemic injury by exacerbating the blood flow-metabolism mismatch. We recently showed that gabapentin suppresses SD. We, therefore, tested gabapentin on PIDs and stroke outcome. Gabapentin pretreatment (200 mg/kg, intravenously) reduced the infarct volume by 23% after transient focal ischemia in mice. However, the frequency and duration of PIDs were not suppressed when recorded for 2 hours during ischemia, suggesting that gabapentin reduces infarct volume independent of PID suppression.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21505480 PMCID: PMC3137475 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.50
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab ISSN: 0271-678X Impact factor: 6.200