title: Intrathecal administration of dizocilpine maleate (MK-801) attenuates ischemic damage in the rabbit spinal cord.
abstract: The therapeutic efficacy of intrathecally administered MK-801 (dizocilpine maleate), a noncompetitive receptor antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor complex, was investigated in a rabbit spinal cord ischemia model. Normal saline, 0.3 ml (control, n = 4) or MK-801, 150 micrograms in 0.3 ml of saline, was administered intrathecally at the level of the lumbar enlargement, 30 min before (pretreatment, n = 7) or in the first min after (post-treatment, n = 4) 30 min of aortic occlusion followed by 2-h reperfusion. Nauta silver method was used for histopathological evaluation of lumbosacral segments. The degree of gray matter damage (argyrophilic neurons) was evaluated in three areas: A1, Rexed's laminae I-VI; A2, laminae VII and X; and A3, laminae VIII-IX. Pre- and post-treatment with MK-801 decreased the number of argyrophilic neurons (P < 0.05) in all areas examined. The number of argyrophilic neurons in A1, A2, and A3 was reduced by 59, 28, and 29%, respectively, by MK-801 pretreatment and by 87, 66, and 46%, respectively, by MK-801 post-treatment. Our results show that with single bolus intrathecal administration the efficacy of MK-801 was greater with post- compared to pretreatment and most dramatic in Rexed's laminae I-VI compared to laminae VII-X. Intrathecal administration of MK-801 prior to or at the beginning of the recirculation diminishes the extent of postischemic neuronal spinal cord damage at early postreperfusion period.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurobiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saganová
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marsala
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D007278:Injections, Spinal; D007511:Ischemia / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011817:Rabbits; D012834:Silver; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D018696:Neuroprotective Agents; D012834:Silver; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate