Cerebral malaria is the most severe complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection and accounts for a large number of malaria fatalities worldwide. Recent studies demonstrated that C5(-/-) mice are resistant to experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) and suggested that protection was due to loss of C5a-induced inflammation. Surprisingly, we observed that C5aR(-/-) mice were fully susceptible to di...

MicroRNAs are non-coding RNAs. Studies have shown that miRNAs are expressed aberrantly in stroke. MiR-1 enhances ischemic damage, and previous study has demonstrated that reduction of miR-1 level has neuroprotective effect on Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion(MCAO). Since apoptosis is one of the important process in neural protection, possible effect of miR-1 on this pathway has been tested in t...

The PROTECTED TAVR trial failed to demonstrate reduction in all stroke with the Sentinel Cerebral Protection System but suggested a incidence of disabling stroke. CPS is first-generation device that protects two three cerebral vessels leaving left vertebral unprotected and does not provide full body protection allowing debris flow into descending aorta. Emboliner Embolic Catheter (Emboline, Inc...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 cerebral amyloid angiopathy (caa) is the most common cause of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. repeated bleeding may be presented with vascular dementia. we have reported a 68-year-old normotensive demented patient with probable caa presented with hemiparesia, headache and vomiting. according to the experience of this case,...

Objectives: Many interventional physiological assessments for retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) have been explored. However, the appropriate arterial gas management of carbon dioxide (CO2) remains controversial. The aim of this study is to determine whether alpha-stat or pH-stat could be used for effective brain protection under RCP in terms of cortical cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral met...

Catalpol and puerarin are two monomers of Rehmannia glutinosa and Lobed Kudzuvine Root, which are two herbs commonly used together in ancient prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine for cerebral ischemia. Our previous study shows that the lyophilized powder of the two monomers improved the outcome of cerebral ischemia excellently in rodents. However, if it protects vessels from ischemia i...

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A new method of determining the rate of glucose utilization in brain regions of individual rats has been used to measure the dose dependency of the reduction of the metabolic activity of the cerebral cortex by pentobarbital. Cerebral cortical glucose utilization is depressed to a basal level of 44% of the control rate when cerebral pentobarbital levels exceed 50 microgram per g of tissue. The m...