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The effect of induced hypertension on neurological outcome in forebrain ischaemia model in rats
Yoo Sun Jung1, Ye-Reum Han2, Byung-Gun Kim3
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Introduction:
The present study investigated the effects of induced hypertension on hippocampal cell death after forebrain ischaemia in rats.
Materials And Methods:
In this study, forebrain ischaemia was induced in 20 Sprague-Dawley rats by clamping the bilateral common carotid arteries to induce systemic hypotension for 8min. All rats then underwent reperfusion during which the induced hypertension group (n=10) received intermittent intravenous injections of phenylephrine (5μg) to maintain their mean arterial blood pressure at 20mmHg above baseline for 10min and the control group (n=10) did not receive any treatment. In both groups, the numbers of viable and apoptotic neuronal cells in the cornu ammonis 1 (CA1) area of the hippocampus were evaluated 7 days after the induction of ischaemia.
Results:
The mean percentage of viable neuronal cells was higher in the induced hypertension group than in the control group (35% vs. 26%, respectively; p=0.004), but there was no significant difference in the proportion of apoptotic neuronal cells between the groups (57% vs. 43%, respectively; p=0.165).
Conclusions:
Induced hypertension significantly attenuated necrotic cell death in the hippocampal CA1 area, but apoptotic cell death was not affected.
