title: Efficacy of bypass between extracerebral artery and cerebral vein with retrograde verapamil infusion into focal cerebral ischemic tissue in rats.
abstract: We examined the efficacy of a bypass from an extracerebral artery to a cerebral vein (EA-CV) with retrograde verapamil infusion on acute focal cerebral ischemia in 35 rats. In 12 rats, within 1 hour after occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCAO), changes in blood-brain barrier permeability were examined by [14C]alpha-aminoisobutyric acid autoradiography after EA-CV bypass surgery; there were no significant changes during a period of 2 hours after EA-CV bypass. The other 18 rats having MCAO were divided into three groups of six each. Group A rats (control) underwent only cannulation of the cerebral vein. Group B rats had an EA-CV bypass. Group C rats received verapamil (0.1 mg/kg every 2 h) by transvenous perfusion of the brain (TVPOB) through the EA-CV bypass. In all rats in Groups A and C, local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) and quantitative measurement of early cerebral infarct volume were performed by autoradiography using [14C]iodoantipyrine and histochemical staining methods. Group B rats were examined only with the LCBF measurement. Group B (EA-CV bypass only) showed a nonsignificant improvement (18-40%) of LCBF in the ischemic cerebral cortical areas as compared with control Group A. Group C (EA-CV bypass with TVPOB with verapamil) showed an extensive and significant improvement in LCBF in the ischemic cortical areas (115-140%; P less than 0.05) and a slight increase in LCBF in the subcortical areas (17-29%), with a significant reduction (greater than 35%; P less than 0.05) in a total cerebral infarct volume in the ischemic cerebral hemisphere as compared with the control Group A.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Neuroisotope Laboratory, Montreal Neurological Institute, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimauchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diksic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier / Q000187:drug effects; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D002548:Cerebral Revascularization / Q000379:methods; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000601:surgery; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014700:Verapamil / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D014700:Verapamil