title: Indomethacin, prostacyclin, and heparin improve postischemic cerebral blood flow without affecting early postischemic granulocyte accumulation.
abstract: Six anesthetized dogs treated with indomethacin, prostacyclin (PGI2), and heparin were compared with 7 anesthetized controls (ischemia without treatment) to determine whether cyclooxygenase inhibition would lead to enhanced granulocyte accumulation because of preferential formation of lipoxygenase products. Cortical somatosensory evoked response, [14C]iodoantipyrine autoradiographic blood flow, and 111In-labelled granulocyte accumulation were compared 4 hours after a 60-minute exposure to multifocal brain ischemia. Treatment with indomethacin, PGI2, and heparin eliminated neuron-disabling brain blood flows without altering early postischemic granulocyte accumulation. Granulocyte accumulation after 4 hours of reperfusion was not significantly different in control and treated dogs. The final amplitude of the cortical somatosensory evoked response in the treated group averaged 38.0 +/- 13.6% (mean +/- SEM) of the corresponding baseline value compared with 21.0 +/- 4.6% in the control group, but this difference was not significant.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kochanek
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Dutka
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hallenbeck
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D004285:Dogs; D011464:Epoprostenol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D006493:Heparin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007213:Indomethacin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D006493:Heparin; D011464:Epoprostenol; D007213:Indomethacin