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Strategy 2: Make the tissue more resilient to poor plumbing.
Pros:
-Likely a pharmacological treatment
-Can be administered more quickly by 1st response team
-Can extend therapeutic time window.
-May be of benefit to a large number of people.
Cons:
- Does not exist.
How to treat stroke
1. Prevent excitotoxicity
2. Block excitotoxicity
3. Block downstream consequences of excitotoxicity
4. Treat non-excitotoxic mechanisms.
5. Treat white matter damageAND
Maybe, just maybe, it’ll work…
Prevent excitotoxicity
Prevent glutamate release
• Block action potentials
• Block neurotransmitter release
Blocking action potentials
1. Na Channel Blockers
2. Potassium channel openers
Advantages:
Reduce need for energy (ATP), reduce synaptic glutamate release.
Disadvantages:
“Shut the patient down”, do not prevent non-synaptic glutamate release, systemic toxicity (cardiovascular).
Blocking action potentials
1. Na Channel Blockers
2. Potassium channel openers
Na channel blockers currently not in use. Clinical trials have shown no utility. Quaternary local anesthetics may be of utility, however currently experimental
K+ channel openers have found utility in chronic spinal cord injury. Phase III trials ongoing for stroke treatment.
Na channel blocker
Potassium channel agonist
Blocking NT release:
Block presynaptic calcium entry
SNX-111
Presynaptic calcium channel blocker
Blocking NT release:
Buffer presynaptic calcium ions
- Prevents the rise of calcium concentrations to levels that cause neurotransmitter release
- Experimental.
Interfere with vesicle fusion/docking/release
- Tetanus toxin
- Botulinum toxin
Obviously not an immediate solution.
Blocking NT release:Hypothermia.
First used in neuorlogical diseases by Dr. Temple Fay, in the mid-late 1930’s
Hypothermia
Blocking Excitotoxicity:
Agents that block postsynaptic receptors.
General anesthetics are considered by some to be neuroprotective.
Inhalational anesthetics may confer protection during neurosurgery (controversial).
Blocking Excitotoxicity:
Most commonly used are the IV anesthetics Barbiturates (activate GABA), propofol (activates GABA, blocks NMDA), ketamine (blocks NMDA).
Barbiturates and propofol commonly used in neurosurgery for brain protection.
Blocking excitotoxicity:
Blockers of
1. Postsynaptic Ca channels
2. NMDA receptor antagonists
3. AMPA/kainate receptor antagonists
4. GABA agonists
Calcium channel blocker
NMDA antagonist
AMPA antagonist
GABA agonist
Prevent Consequences of Glutamate Receptor Activation
Free radical scavengers
Nitric Oxide Synthase antagonists
Calpain Inhibitors
Inhibitors of other intracellular enzymes (protein kinases, phosphatases)
Calcium buffers
NO and ROS antagonism
INSIDE OUTSIDE
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catalase
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Free radical scavenger:
NOS antagonists
Partial list of stroke drugs so far
Complete list of effective drugs so far:
tPA
Pro-Urokinase
Hypothemia
Back to our patient
Operated under hypothermic circulatory arrest.
- Placed on cardiac bypass
- Temperature dropped to 15C
- Pump turned off:
EEG flat, BP = 0
Post-Op
Pre-Op:
Glia
Glia
Astrocytes
Microglia
Oligodendroglia
Schwann cells
Glia
There are a few ways in which glia cells are different from neurons:
1. Neurons have TWO "processes" called axons and dendrites....glial cells only have ONE.
2. Neurons CAN generate action potentials...glial cells CANNOT. However, glial cells do have a resting potential.
3. Neurons HAVE synapses that use neurotransmitters...glial cells do NOT have chemical synapses.
4. Neurons do not continue to divide...glial cells DO continue to divide.
5. There are many MORE (10-50 times more) glial cells in the brain compared to the number of neurons.
Glial Cells
More numerous than neurons
Have many different functions
Nutritive
Electrical Insulators
Scavengers (immunological role)
K+ buffers
Cell guidance
Tight junctions (Blood-Brain Barrier)
Recently, glial cells have been shown to be much more “active”
1. Glia communicate to each other via gap junctions
2. Glia communcate with neurons via gap junctions
3. Gap junctions permit the diffusion of calcium ions and IP3. The latter causes calcium release from internal stores.
4. Glial communication may underlie a number of pathological conditions
Glial activity may underlie pathological conditions:
1. “Spreading depression” – propagating waves of negative DC potential that are believed to spread the ischemic penumbra
2. Migraine (?)
Calcium waves in astrocytes
Glia recently recognized as targets of excitotoxicity
Oligodendroglial cells express AMPA subtype of glutamate receptors.
Oligodendroglia are the white matter cell most susceptible to excitotoxicity in anoxic injury.
From:
Li S, Mealing GA, Morley P, Stys PK
J Neurosci 1999 Jul 15;19(14):RC16