title: Allopurinol preserves cerebral energy metabolism during perinatal hypoxia-ischemia: a 31P NMR study in unanesthetized immature rats.
abstract: The effects of high dose allopurinol (ALLOP) pretreatment on the cerebral energy metabolism of unanesthetized 7-day-postnatal rats during exposure to 3 h of cerebral hypoxia-ischemia were serially quantitated using non-invasive 31P NMR spectroscopy. Adenosine triphosphate, integrated over the last 2 h of hypoxia and expressed as a fraction of baseline, was 0.73 +/- 0.16 with ALLOP pretreatment (200 mg/kg s.c.) compared to 0.52 +/- 0.05 for saline pretreatment (P = 0.001). Inorganic phosphate/phosphocreatine (Pi/PCr), integrated over the same time interval, was 2.63 +/- 1.23 relative to baseline with ALLOP versus 5.13 +/- 1.45 for saline-treated pups (P less than 0.0005). We suggest that the neuroprotection achieved with high dose ALLOP pretreatment may be attributed in part to preservation of energy metabolites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033.
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Heitjan
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000493:Allopurinol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry / Q000187:drug effects*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects*; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010725:Phosphocreatine / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors
chemical_list: D010725:Phosphocreatine; D000493:Allopurinol; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase