title: Failure of 2'-deoxycoformycin to protect against transient forebrain ischemia in rat.
abstract: We determined whether 2'-deoxycoformycin (DCF), a potent highly specific inhibitor of adenosine deaminase (ADA), protected against transient forebrain ischemic neuronal injury in rat. Anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats received i.p. injections of either saline, 0.5 mg/kg or 5 mg/kg DCF 2 h before undergoing a 10-min forebrain ischemic insult induced by bilateral carotid artery occlusion with concomitant hypotension. Rat brain sections taken 7 days post-ischemia showed damage mostly in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. Quantification of neuronal injury showed no significant differences between saline- or DCF-treated rats. These results indicate that, contrary to previous reports, DCF does not protect against the neuronal damage that follows forebrain ischemia in rat.
authors: Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, Winnipeg, Canada.
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Delaney
authors: G R
authors: GR
authors: Sutherland
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Peeling
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Geiger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000473:pathology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D015649:Pentostatin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D015649:Pentostatin