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Focal ischemia enhances the adverse effect potential of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists in rats
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Löscher, Wolfgang Wlaź, Piotr Szabó, László |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Abstract | Recent clinical trials with non-competitive and competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists in patients with stroke have shown that these patients develop more adverse effects, particularly psychomimetic effects such as hallucinations and agitation, than normal volunteers at equivalent doses. We therefore examined whether such increased adverse effect potential of NMDA antagonists also occurs in a rat model of permanent focal ischemia. For this purpose, the right middle cerebral artery was occluded under halothane anesthesia, and behavioral alterations in response to the non-competitive NMDA antagonist, MK-801 (dizocilpine), were recorded after recovery from anesthesia. Behavioral alterations in ischemic rats were compared with those in sham-lesioned rats in a blinded fashion. MK-801 (0.4 mg/kg) induced psychomimetic-like stereotyped behaviors which were about twice as intense in ischemic than in non-ischemic rats. A similar trend for enhanced adverse effects was seen with the competitive NMDA antagonist CGS 19755 (Selfotel). Although more NMDA antagonists have to be tested to draw definite conclusions, the present data may indicate that enhanced sensitivity of stroke patients to adverse effects of NMDA antagonists can be predicted by use of a focal ischemia model in rats, thus allowing use of this model for developing novel cytoprotective strategies targeted to minimize glutamatergic excitotoxicity with reduced adverse effect potential. |
| Starting Page | 33 |
| Ending Page | 36 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00919-1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/S0304394097009191 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394097009191?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint |
| PubMed reference number | 9488168 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3940%2897%2900919-1 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 240 |
| Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
