• Xinghu Qin, Hong You, Fang Cao, Yue Wu, Jianhua Peng, Jinwei Pang, Hong Xu, Yue Chen, Ligang Chen, Michael P Vitek, Fengqiao Li, Xiaochuan Sun, and Yong Jiang.
• 1 Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University , Luzhou, China .
• J. Neurotrauma. 2017 Feb 15; 34 (4): 943-951.

AbstractTraumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and reduces cerebral glucose uptake. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is believed to play a key role in TBI, and COG1410 has demonstrated neuroprotective activity in several models of TBI. However, the effects of COG1410 on VEGF and glucose metabolism following TBI are unknown. The current study aimed to investigate the expression of VEGF and glucose metabolism effects in C57BL/6J male mice subjected to experimental TBI. The results showed that controlled cortical impact (CCI)-induced vestibulomotor deficits were accompanied by increases in brain edema and the expression of VEGF, with a decrease in cerebral glucose uptake. COG1410 treatment significantly improved vestibulomotor deficits and glucose uptake and produced decreases in VEGF in the pericontusion and ipsilateral hemisphere of injury, as well as in brain edema and neuronal degeneration compared with the control group. These data support that COG1410 may have potential as an effective drug therapy for TBI.

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