"Therapeutic Time Window" Duration Decreases with Increasing Severity of Cerebral Hypoxia-ischaemia Under Normothermia and Delayed Hypothermia in Newborn Piglets.
From: Centre for Perinatal Brain Research, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, and Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK. o.iwata@orbix.uk.net
Brain research
- Publish Date: Jun 2007
- ISSN: 0006-8993
- Volume: 1154
- Issue:
- Pages: 173-80
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Iwata Osuke, Iwata Sachiko, Thornton John S, et al. "Therapeutic Time Window" Duration Decreases with Increasing Severity of Cerebral Hypoxia-ischaemia Under Normothermia and Delayed Hypothermia in Newborn Piglets.. Brain Res. Jun 2007;1154:173-80
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: For optimal neuroprotection following transient perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia (HI), therapy should start before overt secondary energy failure and its irreversible neurotoxic cascade. Hypothermia is a promising neuroprotective intervention that also prolongs the therapeutic time window (“latent-phase”; the period between re-establishment of apparently normal cerebral metabolism after HI, and the start of secondary energy failure). The influences of HI severity on latent-phase duration and regional neuroprotection are unclear. Under normothermia and delayed whole-body cooling to 35 and 33 degrees C we aimed to assess relationships between HI severity and: (i) latent-phase duration; (ii) secondary-energy-failure severity; and (iii) neuronal injury 48 h following HI. METHODS: Newborn piglets were randomized to: (i) HI-normothermia (n=12), (ii) HI-35 degrees C (n=7), and (iii) HI-33 degrees C (n=10). HI-35 degrees C and HI-33 degrees C piglets were cooled between 2 and 26 h after HI. Insult and secondary-energy-failure severity and latent-phase duration were evaluated using phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy and compared with neuronal death in cortical-grey and deep-grey matter. RESULTS: More severe HI was associated with shorter latent-phase (p=0.002), worse secondary energy failure (p=0.023) and more cortical-grey-matter neuronal death (p=0.016). CONCLUSIONS: Latent-phase duration is inversely related to insult severity; latent-phase brevity may explain the apparently less effective neuroprotection following severe cerebral HI.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Analysis of Variance, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Cell Death, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Hypothermia, Induced, Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Nerve Degeneration, Random Allocation, Severity of Illness Index, Swine, Time Factors
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