[Mechanisms of cerebral radiation syndrome]
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Pre-Chiasmatic, Single Injection of Autologous Blood to Induce Experimental Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in a Rat Model
Published on: June 18, 2021
Iu Iu Ivnitskiĭ1, A V Nosov, V N Malakhovskiĭ
1Military-Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 194175 Russia.
Abstract:
Postradiation DNA breaks activate the repair enzyme, Adenosine diphosphoribosil transferase, which consumes NAD as a substrate and causes neuronal NAD and then ATP pool depletion; here this is considered to be the crucial links of the cerebral radiation syndrome (CRS) mechanism. Two ways of its metabolic correction were examined: (a) prevention of postradiation NAD depletion by administration of the enzyme inhibitor and (b) shunting NAD-dependent oxidative phosphorilation path of ATP resynthesis by administration of substrate of NAD-independent oxidation.
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