Tracking Antioxidant Status in Spinal Cord Injured Rodents : A Voltammetric Method Suited for Clinical Translation

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BACKGROUND: Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers a signalling cascade that produces oxidative stress and damages the spinal cord. Voltammetry is a clinically accessible technique to detect, monitor, and guide correction of this potentially reversible secondary injury mechanism. Voltammetry is well suited for clinical translation because the method is inexpensive, simple, rapid, and portable. Voltammetry relies on the measurement of anodic current from a reagent-free, electrochemical reaction on the surface of a small electrode.

METHODS: The present study tested the use of new disposable carbon nanotube based screen printed electrodes (CNT-SPE) for the voltammetric measurement of antioxidant current (AC). Spinal cord, cerebrospinal fluid, and plasma were obtained from Sprague-Dawley rats after SCI. Locomotor function after SCI was assessed by using the Basso, Beattie, Bresnahan (BBB) score.

RESULTS: The more severe SCI caused a decline in spinal cord AC419 at 10 minutes (P < 0.05), 4 hours (P < 0.0001), and 1 day (P < 0.01) after injury compared with sham controls. It also caused a decline in plasma AC375 at 1 (P < 0.001) and 3 days (P < 0.05) after injury compared with their pre-injury baseline. Spinal cord AC419 correlated with plasma AC375 (r = 0.49, P < 0.01) and BBB score (r = 0.66, P < 0.0001) at 1 day after SCI.

CONCLUSIONS: AC measured by CNT-SPE demonstrated a time- and severity-dependent decline after SCI. Plasma AC could serve as a surrogate marker for spinal cord AC.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:161

Enthalten in:

World neurosurgery - 161(2022) vom: 30. Mai, Seite e183-e191

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bringans, Cameron [VerfasserIn]
Hammond, Callum [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Jiwon [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hsiang-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Schweder, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Correia, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Windsor, John [VerfasserIn]
Kilmartin, Paul [VerfasserIn]
O'Carroll, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Phillips, Anthony [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antioxidant
Antioxidants
Journal Article
Neuromonitoring
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Spinal cord injury
Voltammetry

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Date Completed 05.05.2022

Date Revised 24.08.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.wneu.2022.01.099

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336278543