Long-Term Cognitive Deficits After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Rats.
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2016-10
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Cognitive dysfunction can be a long-term complication following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Preclinical models have been variously characterized to emulate this disorder. This study was designed to directly compare long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar levels of insult severity in the cisterna magna double-blood (DB) injection versus prechiasmatic blood (PB) injection SAH models.Methods
Pilot work identified blood injectate volumes necessary to provide similar mortality rates (20-25 %). Rats were then randomly assigned to DB or PB insults. Saline injection and naïve rats were used as controls. Functional and cognitive outcome was assessed over 35 days.Results
DB and PB caused similar transient rotarod deficits. PB rats exhibited decreased anxiety behavior on the elevated plus maze, while anxiety was increased in DB. DB and PB caused differential deficits in the novel object recognition and novel object location tasks. Morris water maze performance was similarly altered in both models (decreased escape latency and increased swimming speed). SAH caused histologic damage in the medial prefrontal cortex, perirhinal cortex, and hippocampal CA1, although severity of injury in the respective regions differed between DB and PB.Conclusion
Both SAH models caused long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar insult severity. Cognitive deficits differed between the two models, as did distribution of histologic injury. Each model offers unique properties and both models may be useful for study of SAH-induced cognitive deficits.Type
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Sasaki, Toshihiro, Ulrike Hoffmann, Motomu Kobayashi, Huaxin Sheng, Abdelkader Ennaceur, Frederick W Lombard and David S Warner (2016). Long-Term Cognitive Deficits After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Rats. Neurocritical care, 25(2). pp. 293–305. 10.1007/s12028-016-0250-1 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23258.
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Huaxin Sheng
We have successfully developed various rodent models of brain and spinal cord injuries in our lab, such as focal cerebral ischemia, global cerebral ischemia, head trauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, spinal cord ischemia and compression injury. We also established cardiac arrest and hemorrhagic shock models for studying multiple organ dysfunction. Our current studies focus on two projects. One is to examine the efficacy of catalytic antioxidant in treating cerebral ischemia and the other is to examine the efficacy of post-conditioning on outcome of subarachnoid hemorrhage induced cognitive dysfunction.
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