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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2011

Effect of dexamethasone on gliosis, ischemia, and dopamine extraction during microdialysis sampling in brain tissue.

Andrea Jaquins-Gerstl, Zhan Shu, Jing Zhang, Yansheng Liu, Stephen G Weber, Adrian C Michael

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea Jaquins-GerstlDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Zhan Shu
Jing Zhang
Yansheng Liu
Stephen G Weber
Adrian C Michael
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000005 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI REIS, STEVEN E · 2012 to 2015
$50.8M
Ultrastructural Basis of Neurochemical Measures in BrainR01MH075989 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MICHAEL, ADRIAN C · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000005NIMH NIH HHS MH0575989NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH075989PHS HHS GMR01044842PHS HHS MHR21083134
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microdialysis sampling of the brain is an analytical technique with numerous applications in neuroscience and the neurointensive care of brain-injured human patients. Even so, implanting microdialysis probes into brain tissue causes a penetration injury that triggers gliosis (the activation and proliferation of glial cells) and ischemia (the interruption of blood flow). Thus, the probe samples injured tissue. Mitigating the effects of the penetration injury might refine the technique. The synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone is a potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant substance. We performed microdialysis in the rat brain for 5 days, with and without dexamethasone in the perfusion fluid (10 μM for the first 24 h and 2 μM thereafter). On the first and fourth day of the perfusion, we performed dopamine no-net-flux measurements. On the fifth day, we sectioned and stained the brain tissue and examined it by fluorescence microscopy. Although dexamethasone profoundly inhibited gliosis and ischemia around the probe tracks it had only modest effects on dopamine no-net-flux results. These findings show that dexamethasone is highly effective at suppressing gliosis and ischemia but is limited in its neuroprotective activity.

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MicrodialysisAnimalsBrainDexamethasoneDopamineGliosisIschemiaMicroscopy, FluorescenceNeuroprotective AgentsRatsTime FactorsDexamethasoneDopamineNeuroprotective Agents

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PMID21859125
PMCPMC3193568
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