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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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