title: Hypothermia as cerebroprotective measure. Experimental hypoxic exposure of brain slices and clinical application in critically reduced cerebral perfusion pressure.
abstract: An in vitro human neocortical and rodent hippocampus brain slice technique was used under repeated hypoxia to investigate the cerebroprotective effect of hypothermia. As a hallmark of the neuronal hypoxic reaction anoxic terminal negativity (ATN) was registered to test whether hypothermia delays the onset of ATN. The experiments clearly confirm an assumed protective effect of hypothermia in vitro and in vivo and give for the first time evidence of the lack of the protective effect of hypothermia once hypoxia has occurred under normothermic conditions, probably by a critical depletion of cellular ATP-stores. In patients with severe traumatic brain injury and critically low cerebral perfusion pressure mild hypothermia is able to improve clinical outcome.
authors.affiliation: Klinik and Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wassmann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Greiner
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hülsmann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moskopp
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Speckmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Van Aken
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018686:Anesthetics, Intravenous / Q000008:administration & dosage; D000818:Animals; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000628:therapy*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000628:therapy*; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008723:Methohexital / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D010477:Perfusion / Q000379:methods; D011312:Pressure; D012377:Rodentia
chemical_list: D018686:Anesthetics, Intravenous; D008723:Methohexital