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Title: | Hypothermia revisited: Impact of ischaemic duration and between experiment variability. | Austin Authors: | Rewell, Sarah S J;Jeffreys, Amy L;Sastra, Steven A;Cox, Susan F;Fernandez, John A;Aleksoska, Elena;van der Worp, H Bart;Churilov, Leonid ;Macleod, Malcolm R;Howells, David W | Affiliation: | The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania |
Issue Date: | Oct-2017 | Date: | 2017-01-13 | Publication information: | Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism 2017; 37(10): 3380-3390 | Abstract: | To assess the true effect of novel therapies for ischaemic stroke, a positive control that can validate the experimental model and design is vital. Hypothermia may be a good candidate for such a positive control, given the convincing body of evidence from animal models of ischaemic stroke. Taking conditions under which substantial efficacy had been seen in a meta-analysis of hypothermia for focal ischaemia in animal models, we undertook three randomised and blinded studies examining the effect of hypothermia induced immediately following the onset of middle cerebral artery occlusion on infarct volume in rats (n = 15, 23, 264). Hypothermia to a depth of 33℃ and maintained for 130 min significantly reduced infarct volume compared to normothermia treatment (by 27-63%) and depended on ischaemic duration (F(3,244) = 21.242, p < 0.05). However, the protective effect varied across experiments with differences in both the size of the infarct observed in normothermic controls and the time to reach target temperature. Our results highlight the need for sample size and power calculations to take into account variations between individual experiments requiring induction of focal ischaemia. | URI: | https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/17652 | DOI: | 10.1177/0271678X16688704 | ORCID: | 0000-0002-9807-6606 | Journal: | Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | PubMed URL: | 28084873 | Type: | Journal Article | Subjects: | Ischaemic Stroke animal models hypothermia ischaemic duration positive control |
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