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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 118, Issue 1, Pages 92-98Publisher
JAPANESE PHARMACOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1254/jphs.11075FP
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Rho-kinase; hydroxyfasudil; subarachnoid hemorrhage; vasospasm; hemodynamic dysfunction
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. We investigated the anti-vasospastic potential of fasudil's active metabolite, hydroxyfasudil, a Rho-kinase inhibitor, after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and also its effect on hemorheological abnormalities following cerebral ischemia. Chronic cerebral vasospasm was produced using a two-hemorrhage canine model. On day 7, angiographic vasospasm was observed in all animals, and intravenous administration of hydroxyfasudil (3 mg.ke(-1).30 min(-1)) significantly reversed the vasospasm (predose diameter of the basilar artery, 57.9% +/- 2.0% of the baseline before the injection of blood; postdose diameter, 64.5% +/- 1.9%). The viscosity of whole blood was significantly increased 24 h after 1 h middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Hydroxyfasudil (3 and 10 mg/kg, i.p.) significantly decreased blood viscosity. The specificity of hydroxyfasudil was examined against a panel of 17 protein kinases using ELISA analysis. Hydroxyfasudil inhibited Rho-kinase alpha and beta at a concentration of 10 mu M by 97.6% and 97.7%, respectively. No other protein kinase was inhibited with 10 mu M hydroxyfasudil by over 40%. The present results indicate hydroxyfasudil is a selective inhibitor of Rho-kinase. The results also suggest that hydroxyfasudil contributes to the potency of fasudil to prevent cerebral vasospasm and hyperviscosity and suggest the potential utility of hydroxyfasudil as a therapeutic agent for patients with SAH.
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