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JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH
Volume 65, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jpi.12521
Keywords
brain; carotid endarterectomy; ischemia and reperfusion; melatonin; randomized controlled trial
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- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing
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Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is the treatment of choice for carotid stenosis. Some patients develop ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury after CEA. This study was designed to investigate the neuroprotective effects of melatonin on I/R injury in both rats and humans. To this end, 36 male rats were evaluated, and a double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) including 60 patients was performed. A rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion was used to mimic cerebral I/R. After 2 hour of occlusion and 24 hour of reperfusion, blood samples and brain tissues were harvested for further assessments. Compared with the vehicle treatment, melatonin decreased the expression of nuclear factor kappa light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-kappa B) and S100 calcium-binding protein beta (S100 beta) (P < 0.05) and markedly increased the expression of nuclear erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) (P < 0.05). The participants in the RCT took 6 mg/d melatonin orally from 3 days before surgery to 3 days after surgery. Blood samples were drawn at the following times: baseline; pre-anesthesia; carotid reconstruction completion; and 6, 24, and 72 hour after CEA. Compared with the oral placebo treatment, melatonin decreased the expression of NF-kappa B, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and S100 beta (P < 0.05) and increased the expression of Nrf2, SOD, CAT, and GPx (P < 0.05) in patients after CEA. Our findings suggested that melatonin could ameliorate brain I/R injury after CEA and that this outcome was essentially due to the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of melatonin.
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