• Bmc Neurol · Apr 2002

    Tetramethylpyrazine attenuates spinal cord ischemic injury due to aortic cross-clamping in rabbits.

    • Shaoyang Chen, Lize Xiong, Qiang Wang, Hanfei Sang, Zhenhua Zhu, Hailong Dong, and Zhihong Lu.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an ShaanXi, 710032, China. chensy@fmmu.edu.cn
    • Bmc Neurol. 2002 Apr 17; 2: 1.

    BackgroundLower limb paralysis occurs in 11% of patients after surgical procedure of thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysms and is an unpredictable and distressful complication. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of tetramethylpyrazine (TMP), an intravenous drug made from traditional Chinese herbs, on the neurologic outcome and histopathology after transient spinal cord ischemia in rabbits.MethodsForty-five male New Zealand white rabbits were anesthetized with isoflurane and spinal cord ischemia was induced for 20 min by infrarenal aortic occlusion. Animals were randomly allocated to one of five groups (n = 8 each). Group C received no pharmacologic intervention. Group P received intravenous infusion of 30 mg x kg(-1) TMP within 30 min before aortic occlusion. Group T1, Group T2 and Group T3 received intravenous infusion of 15, 30 and 60 mg x kg(-1) TMP respectively within 30 min after reperfusion. In the sham group (n = 5), the animals underwent the same procedures as the control group except infrarental aortic unocclusion. Neurologic status was scored by using the Tarlov criteria (in which 4 is normal and 0 is paraplegia) at 4 h, 8 h, 12 h, 24 h, and 48 h after reperfusion. All animals were sacrificed at 48 h after reperfusion and the spinal cords (L5) were removed immediately for histopathologic study.ResultsAll animals in the control group became paraplegic. Neurologic status and histopathology (48 h) in the Groups P, T2 and T3 were significantly better than those in the control group (P < 0.05). There was a strong correlation between the final neurologic scores and the number of normal neurons in the anterior spinal cord (r = 0.776, P < 0.01).ConclusionTetramethylpyrazine significantly reduces neurologic injury related to spinal cord ischemia and reperfusion after aortic occlusion within a certain range of dose.

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