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BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1038, Issue 1, Pages 92-99Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.01.024
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glutamate receptor blockers; glutamate release; spinal cord injury; damage cascades; secondary damage
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS39161, NS11255] Funding Source: Medline
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It is widely hypothesized that excitotoxicity of released glutamate following a CNS insult is propagated by the cyclic cascade: glutamate release -> damage -> glutamate release -> further damage -> etc. We tested this hypothesis by determining the effects of attempting to interrupt the loop by administering glutamate receptor antagonists and Na+-channel blockers on glutamate release following spinal cord injury (SCI). The effects of administering the NMDA receptor blockers MK-801 and memantine, the AMPA/kainate receptor blockers NBQX and GYKI 52466, the AMPA receptor desensitization blocker cyclothiazide and the sodium channel blockers riluzole, mexiletine and QX-314 on post-SCI were determined. Agents were administered into the site of injury by direct injection, by microdialysis or systemically. None of these agents had an appreciable effect on glutamate release following SCI. Thus, it is unlikely that the above cascade produces significant secondary glutamate release and ongoing damage following SCI, although such cascades may worsen other CNS insults. We attribute our results to overwhelming effects of much greater release by direct mechanical damage and reversal of transport following SCI. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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