Time Course of Peripheral Oxidative Stress as Consequence of Global Ischaemic Brain Injury in Rats
- 4 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
- Vol. 28 (3), 431-441
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10571-007-9246-x
Abstract
Free radicals play an important role in the pathogenesis of brain injury. This study evaluates the potential relationship between ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced brain injury, peripheral oxidative stress (lymphocyte DNA damage), plasma antioxidant potential and uric acid levels. We observed that 15 min of ischaemia were sufficient to significantly increase lymphocyte DNA damage that remained elevated at the end of early (3 h) reperfusion and at later (72 h) reperfusion time; this parameter was not significantly increased, when compared to preoperated levels. In parallel, antioxidant potential was elevated after 15 min of ischaemia, remained high at early (3 h) reperfusion and decreased again with longer (72 h) reperfusion. A close association between the plasma antioxidant status and the uric acid content has been confirmed by findings that changes in TRAP values positively correlate with uric acid concentration in rat plasma after ischaemic injury. Moreover, results of in vitro experiments with extra uric acid addition to control plasma have shown that uric acid contributes to a greater part of TRAP values. These results indicate a similar time course of brain I/R-associated oxidative stress and peripheral antioxidant defence status and/or oxidative stress in animal experiments.Keywords
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