Effect of KBT-3022, a new cyclooxygenase inhibitor, on experimental brain edema in vitro and in vivo

1996 ◽  
Vol 297 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Yamamoto ◽  
Koichi Yokota ◽  
Akira Yamashita ◽  
Minoru Oda
2009 ◽  
Vol 332 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Paulson ◽  
Tianzhi Yang ◽  
Pradeep K. Selvaraj ◽  
Alexander Mdzinarishvili ◽  
Cornelis J. Van der Schyf ◽  
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Stroke ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 3587-3593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhao ◽  
Ya Hua ◽  
Yangdong He ◽  
Richard F. Keep ◽  
Guohua Xi

Background and Purpose— Brain iron overload plays a detrimental role in brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). A recent study found that minocycline acts as an iron chelator and reduces iron-induced neuronal death in vitro. The present study investigated if minocycline reduces iron overload after ICH and iron-induced brain injury in vivo. Methods— This study was divided into 4 parts: (1) rats with different sizes of ICH were euthanized 3 days later for serum total iron and brain edema determination; (2) rats had an ICH treated with minocycline or vehicle. Serum iron, brain iron, and brain iron handling proteins were measured; (3) rats had an intracaudate injection of saline, iron, iron+minocycline, or iron+macrophage/microglia inhibitory factor and were used for brain edema and neuronal death measurements; and (4) rats had an intracaudate injection of iron and were treated with minocycline. The brains were used for edema measurement. Results— After ICH, serum total iron and brain nonheme iron increased and these changes were reduced by minocycline treatment. Minocycline also reduced ICH-induced upregulation of brain iron handling proteins and neuronal death. Intracaudate injection of iron caused brain edema, blood–brain barrier leakage, and brain cell death, all of which were significantly reduced by coinjection with minocycline. Conclusions— The current study found that minocycline reduces iron overload after ICH and iron-induced brain injury. It is also well known minocycline is an inhibitor of microglial activation. Minocycline may be very useful for patients with ICH because both iron accumulation and microglia activation contribute to brain damage after ICH.


1984 ◽  
Vol 247 (6) ◽  
pp. F975-F981 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Stahl ◽  
U. Helmchen ◽  
M. Paravicini ◽  
L. J. Ritter ◽  
P. Schollmeyer

In vitro prostaglandin (PG) and thromboxane B2 (TXB2) formation by isolated glomeruli from normotensive (N) and two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive (2K,1C) rats was determined. When calculated on the basis of glomerular protein content, PGE2, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and TXB2 production of glomeruli from clipped kidneys was significantly greater than PG and TXB2 formation of glomeruli from the untouched kidneys. When PG and TXB2 formation was calculated per amount of glomeruli, only PGE2 formation was found to be significantly greater in clipped kidneys. No severe damage of glomerular structure was found in the kidneys when studied by light microscopy. In additional in vivo studies, the effect of the cyclooxygenase inhibitor indomethacin on blood pressure and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was evaluated. Following indomethacin GFR in 7 of 13 clipped kidneys of 2K,1C rats decreased from 363 +/- 77 to 188 +/- 51 microliter/100 g body wt, whereas six kidneys developed anuria. No effect of cyclooxygenase inhibition on GFR was found in N rats and in untouched kidneys of 2K,1C rats. Mean arterial blood pressure in 2K,1C hypertension fell significantly, from 158 +/- 10 to 135 +/- 7 mmHg, after cyclooxygenase inhibition. No effect was seen in N rats. The data suggest that increased glomerular PG formation in the clipped kidneys of 2K,1C rats is involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension in this animal model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 985-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huangcheng Song ◽  
Shuai Yuan ◽  
Zhuwei Zhang ◽  
Juyi Zhang ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
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Sodium/hydrogen exchanger 1 (NHE1) plays an essential role in maintaining intracellular pH (pHi) homeostasis in the central nervous system (CNS) under physiological conditions, and it is also associated with neuronal death and intracellular Na+ and Ca2+ overload induced by cerebral ischemia. However, its roles and underlying mechanisms in early brain injury (EBI) induced by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) have not been fully explored. In this research, a SAH model in adult male rat was established through injecting autologous arterial blood into prechiasmatic cistern. Meanwhile, primary cultured cortical neurons of rat treated with 5 μM oxygen hemoglobin (OxyHb) for 24 h were applied to mimic SAH in vitro. We find that the protein levels of NHE1 are significantly increased in brain tissues of rats after SAH. Downregulation of NHE1 by HOE642 (a specific chemical inhibitor of NHE1) and genetic-knockdown can effectively alleviate behavioral and cognitive dysfunction, brain edema, blood-brain barrier (BBB) injury, inflammatory reactions, oxidative stress, neurondegeneration, and neuronal apoptosis, all of which are involved in EBI following SAH. However, upregulation of NHE1 by genetic-overexpression can produce opposite effects. Additionally, inhibiting NHE1 significantly attenuates OxyHb-induced neuronal apoptosis in vitro and reduces interaction of NHE1 and CHP1 both in vivo and in vitro. Collectively, we can conclude that NHE1 participates in EBI induced by SAH through mediating inflammation, oxidative stress, behavioral and cognitive dysfunction, BBB injury, brain edema, and promoting neuronal degeneration and apoptosis.


Brain Edema ◽  
1985 ◽  
pp. 601-605
Author(s):  
T. Hashimoto ◽  
H. Pitts ◽  
M. E. Moseley ◽  
H. M. Bartkowski

Author(s):  
E. J. Kollar

The differentiation and maintenance of many specialized epithelial structures are dependent on the underlying connective tissue stroma and on an intact basal lamina. These requirements are especially stringent in the development and maintenance of the skin and oral mucosa. The keratinization patterns of thin or thick cornified layers as well as the appearance of specialized functional derivatives such as hair and teeth can be correlated with the specific source of stroma which supports these differentiated expressions.


Author(s):  
M.J. Murphy ◽  
R.R. Price ◽  
J.C. Sloman

The in vitro human tumor cloning assay originally described by Salmon and Hamburger has been applied recently to the investigation of differential anti-tumor drug sensitivities over a broad range of human neoplasms. A major problem in the acceptance of this technique has been the question of the relationship between the cultured cells and the original patient tumor, i.e., whether the colonies that develop derive from the neoplasm or from some other cell type within the initial cell population. A study of the ultrastructural morphology of the cultured cells vs. patient tumor has therefore been undertaken to resolve this question. Direct correlation was assured by division of a common tumor mass at surgical resection, one biopsy being fixed for TEM studies, the second being rapidly transported to the laboratory for culture.


Author(s):  
Raul I. Garcia ◽  
Evelyn A. Flynn ◽  
George Szabo

Skin pigmentation in mammals involves the interaction of epidermal melanocytes and keratinocytes in the structural and functional unit known as the Epidermal Melanin Unit. Melanocytes(M) synthesize melanin within specialized membrane-bound organelles, the melanosome or pigment granule. These are subsequently transferred by way of M dendrites to keratinocytes(K) by a mechanism still to be clearly defined. Three different, though not necessarily mutually exclusive, mechanisms of melanosome transfer have been proposed: cytophagocytosis by K of M dendrite tips containing melanosomes, direct injection of melanosomes into the K cytoplasm through a cell-to-cell pore or communicating channel formed by localized fusion of M and K cell membranes, release of melanosomes into the extracellular space(ECS) by exocytosis followed by K uptake using conventional phagocytosis. Variability in methods of transfer has been noted both in vivo and in vitro and there is evidence in support of each transfer mechanism. We Have previously studied M-K interactions in vitro using time-lapse cinemicrography and in vivo at the ultrastructural level using lanthanum tracer and freeze-fracture.


Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.


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