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ArticleBrain and behavior2017

Curcumin mitigates cerebral vasospasm and early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage via inhibiting cerebral inflammation.

Jun Cai, Dandan Xu, Xiaoxin Bai, Ruihuan Pan, Bei Wang, Shuangxi Sun, Ruicong Chen, Jingbo Sun, Yan Huang

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jun CaiDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.ORCID 0000-0002-5959-3264
Dandan XuDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Xiaoxin BaiDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Ruihuan PanDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Bei WangDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Shuangxi SunDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Ruicong ChenDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Jingbo SunDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Yan HuangDiagnosis and Treatment Center of Encephalopathy Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China.
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeSubarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)-induced cerebral vasospasm and early brain injury is a fatal clinical syndrome. Cerebral vasospasm and early brain injury are associated with inflammatory response and oxidative stress. Whether curcumin, which plays important roles to regulate inflammatory cytokines and inhibit oxidative stress, inhibits SAH-induced inflammation and oxidative stress are largely unknown.

methodsAdult male rats underwent autologous blood injection into prechiasmatic cistern to induce SAH. Curcumin (150 mg/kg) was administered at 0.5, 24 and 48 hr post-SAH. Mortality calculation and neurological outcomes as well as morphological vasospasm of anterior cerebral artery were studied. Superoxide dismutase, lipid peroxidation, and inflammatory cytokines (MCP-1 and TNF-α) expression in prefrontal region were quantified. Furthermore, p65 and phosphor-p65 were quantitatively analyzed.

resultsCurcumin remarkedly reduced mortality and ameliorated neurological deficits after SAH induction (

conclusionsCurcumin can inhibit SAH-induced inflammatory response via restricting NF-κB activation to alleviate cerebral vasospasm and early brain injury.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalCurcuminCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalInflammationMaleNF-kappa BOxidative StressRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySignal TransductionSubarachnoid HemorrhageVasospasm, IntracranialAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalCurcuminCytokinesNF-kappa Bcerebral vasospasmcurcuminearly brain injuryinflammationNF‐κBsubarachnoid hemorrhage

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PMID28948084
PMCPMC5607553
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