ArticleScientific reports2020
Neuroprotection by remote ischemic conditioning in the setting of acute ischemic stroke: a preclinical two-centre study.
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- Remote Ischemic Conditioning With Medical Management or Reperfusion Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Translational Barriers and Optimization Strategies for Remote Ischemic Conditioning to Enhance Stroke Cerebroprotection.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Inter-organ communication: pathways and targets to cardioprotection and neuro-protection. A report from the 12th Hatter Cardiovascular Institute workshop.Basic research in cardiology · 2025Article
- Mitochondria dysfunction, a potential cytoprotection target against ischemia-reperfusion injury in a mouse stroke model.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Management of Stroke: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- A review of remote ischemic conditioning as a potential strategy for neural repair poststroke.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2023Review
- Exercise postconditioning reduces ischemic injury via suppression of cerebral gluconeogenesis in rats.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Neurofunctional and neuroimaging readouts for designing a preclinical stem-cell therapy trial in experimental stroke.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Editorial: The human brain multiscale imaging challenge.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Article
- Three Dimensional-Arterial Spin Labeling Evaluation of Improved Cerebral Perfusion After Limb Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in a Rat Model of Focal Ischemic Stroke.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Article
- Intertwined Relation between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondria in Ischemic Stroke.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022Review
- Contribution of preclinical MRI to responsible animal research: living up to the 3R principle.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Remote Ischemic Conditioning and Stroke Recovery.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2021Article
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor activation dilates cerebral arterioles, increases cerebral blood flow, and mediates remote (pre)conditioning neuroprotection against ischaemic stroke.Basic research in cardiology · 2021Article
- Remote Ischemic Conditioning in Ischemic Stroke and Myocardial Infarction: Similarities and Differences.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Timing is everything: Exercise therapy and remote ischemic conditioning for acute ischemic stroke patients.Brain circulationReview
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Abstract
Reperfusion is the only existing strategy for patients with acute ischemic stroke, however it causes further brain damage itself. A feasible therapy targeting reperfusion injury is remote ischemic conditioning (RIC). This was a two-centre, randomized, blinded international study, using translational imaging endpoints, aimed to examine the neuroprotective effects of RIC in ischemic stroke model. 80 male rats underwent 90-min middle cerebral artery occlusion. RIC consisted of 4 × 5 min cycles of left hind limb ischemia. The primary endpoint was infarct size measured on T2-weighted MRI at 24 h, expressed as percentage of the area-at-risk. Secondary endpoints were: hemispheric space-modifying edema, infarct growth between per-occlusion and 24 h MRI, neurofunctional outcome measured by neuroscores. 47 rats were included in the analysis after applying pre-defined inclusion criteria. RIC significantly reduced infarct size (median, interquartile range: 19% [8%; 32%] vs control: 40% [17%; 59%], p = 0.028). This effect was still significant after adjustment for apparent diffusion coefficient lesion size in multivariate analysis. RIC also improved neuroscores (6 [3; 8] vs control: 9 [7; 11], p = 0.032). Other secondary endpoints were not statistically different between groups. We conclude that RIC in the setting of acute ischemic stroke in rats is safe, reduces infarct size and improves functional recovery.
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