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ReviewAntioxidants & redox signaling2011

Significance of brain tissue oxygenation and the arachidonic acid cascade in stroke.

Cameron Rink, Savita Khanna

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Review in Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
108citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

108 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 227 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cameron RinkDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Savita Khanna
The Ohio State University · USThe Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center · US

Funding

University of Iowa Clinical and Translational Science Program (TL1)UL1RR025755 · NCRR · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JACKSON, REBECCA D · 2008 to 2011
$26.3M
Vitamin E Neuroprotection: Novel Molecular MechanismsR01NS042617 · NINDS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SEN, CHANDAN K · 2002 to 2021
$3.9M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025755NINDS NIH HHS NS42617NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS042617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The significance of the hypoxia component of stroke injury is highlighted by hypermetabolic brain tissue enriched with arachidonic acid (AA), a 22:6n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid. In an ischemic stroke environment in which cerebral blood flow is arrested, oxygen-starved brain tissue initiates the rapid cleavage of AA from the membrane phospholipid bilayer. Once free, AA undergoes both enzyme-independent and enzyme-mediated oxidative metabolism, resulting in the formation of number of biologically active metabolites which themselves contribute to pathological stroke outcomes. This review is intended to examine two divergent roles of molecular dioxygen in brain tissue as (1) a substrate for life-sustaining homeostatic metabolism of glucose and (2) a substrate for pathogenic metabolism of AA under conditions of stroke. Recent developments in research concerning supplemental oxygen therapy as an intervention to correct the hypoxic component of stroke injury are discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsArachidonic AcidBrainBrain IschemiaHumansOxidative StressOxygenStrokeArachidonic AcidOxygen

Identifiers

PMID20673202
PMCPMC3078506
OpenAlexW2003096217

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