TY - JOUR
T1 - Therapeutic value of 21-aminosteroid U74389F in acute spinal cord injury
AU - Haghighi, S. S.
AU - Hall, E. D.
AU - Geng, X. Z.
AU - Oro, J. J.
AU - Johnson, G. C.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - The effect of bolus injections of 21-aminosteroid U74389F after an acute spinal cord compression trauma in rats was studied. Cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (CSEPs) were recorded before and after a weight-induced injury of 120 g and monitored up to five hours post-injury. All U74389F treatments were given as i.v. bolus injections of 15, 7.5, and 3.75 mg kg- 1 at 1, 2, 3 h after the trauma, respectively. The CSEPs were abolished immediately after the injury in the control and treated animals. The majority of the treated animals (88.8%) demonstrated a return of the CSEPs within the second hour post-injury. In contrast, the animals in the control group showed only 44.4% recovery at this time period. At three hours post-injury, U74389F- treated animals (n = 18) showed a full recovery (100%) while the recovery rate remained at 44.4% for the control animals. We conclude that the bolus administration of U74389F one hour after injury facilitates the return of the spinal cord function as measured by the CSEPs in this compression model of acute spinal cord trauma.
AB - The effect of bolus injections of 21-aminosteroid U74389F after an acute spinal cord compression trauma in rats was studied. Cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (CSEPs) were recorded before and after a weight-induced injury of 120 g and monitored up to five hours post-injury. All U74389F treatments were given as i.v. bolus injections of 15, 7.5, and 3.75 mg kg- 1 at 1, 2, 3 h after the trauma, respectively. The CSEPs were abolished immediately after the injury in the control and treated animals. The majority of the treated animals (88.8%) demonstrated a return of the CSEPs within the second hour post-injury. In contrast, the animals in the control group showed only 44.4% recovery at this time period. At three hours post-injury, U74389F- treated animals (n = 18) showed a full recovery (100%) while the recovery rate remained at 44.4% for the control animals. We conclude that the bolus administration of U74389F one hour after injury facilitates the return of the spinal cord function as measured by the CSEPs in this compression model of acute spinal cord trauma.
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U2 - 10.1080/01616412.1993.11740155
DO - 10.1080/01616412.1993.11740155
M3 - Article
C2 - 7905606
AN - SCOPUS:0027487935
SN - 0161-6412
VL - 15
SP - 321
EP - 326
JO - Neurological Research
JF - Neurological Research
IS - 5
ER -