Central nervous system agents for ischemic stroke : neuroprotection mechanisms

Stroke is the third leading cause of mortality and disability in the United States. Ischemic stroke constitutes 85% of all stroke cases. However, no effective treatment has been found to prevent damage to the brain in such cases except tissue plasminogen activator with narrow therapeutic window, and there is an unmet need to develop therapeutics for neuroprotection from ischemic stroke. Studies have shown that mechanisms including apoptosis, necrosis, inflammation, immune modulation, and oxidative stress and mediators such as excitatory amino acids, nitric oxide, inflammatory mediators, neurotransmitters, reactive oxygen species, and withdrawal of trophic factors may lead to the development of the ischemic cascade. Hence, it is essential to develop neuroprotective agents targeting either the mechanisms or the mediators leading to development of ischemic stroke. This review focuses on central nervous system agents targeting these biochemical pathways and mediators of ischemic stroke, mainly those that counteract apoptosis, inflammation, and oxidation, and well as glutamate inhibitors which have been shown to provide neuroprotection in experimental animals. All these agents have been shown to improve neurological outcome after ischemic insult in experimental animals in vivo, organotypic brain slice/acute slice ex vivo, and cell cultures in vitro and may therefore aid in preventing long-term morbidity and mortality associated with ischemic stroke.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2011

Erschienen:

2011

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry - 11(2011), 2 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 81-97

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pandya, Rachna S [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Hua [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Shuanhu [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Popp, A John [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xin [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Antioxidants
Central Nervous System Agents
Free Radical Scavengers
Inflammation Mediators
Journal Article
Neuroprotective Agents
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

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Date Completed 29.03.2012

Date Revised 09.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM207742413