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To evaluate whether reversible global cerebral ischemia followed by reperfusion initiates lipid peroxidative free-radical chain reactions in vivo across distinct brain regions.

January 1, 1984Journal of Neurochemistry

Lipid Peroxidation In Vivo Induced by Reversible Global Ischemia in Rat Brain

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BWBrant D. WatsonUniversity of Miami RBRaul BustoUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs WGWilliam J. GoldbergUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs

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Animal study demonstrates focal lipid peroxidation following transient global ischemia and reperfusion in rats, indicating reoxygenation triggers localized free-radical damage.

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To evaluate whether reversible global cerebral ischemia followed by reperfusion initiates lipid peroxidative free-radical chain reactions in vivo across distinct brain regions.
Subjected rats to 30 minutes of reversible global cerebral ischemia followed by 0, 30, 60, or 240 minutes of reperfusion, alongside sham-operated control animals.
Sampled micro-dissected (~2 mg) tissue frozen in situ from the neocortex, hippocampus, and thalamus of both cerebral hemispheres.
Extracted total lipids using heptane and measured ultraviolet difference spectra (190–330 nm) to quantify the molar percentage of conjugated dienes relative to isolated double bonds.
Resolvable conjugated diene peaks (centered at 238 ± 1 nm) appeared in 18 of 124 samples across reperfusion groups (0.25% to 1.34% [conjugated diene]/[isolated double bonds]) compared to 1 of 38 samples in the nonreperfused group (0.62%).
Conjugated diene formation occurred focally without regional predilection among neocortex, hippocampus, and thalamus.
Computer averaging across all sampled zones demonstrated that pooling large tissue samples attenuates conjugated diene absorption peaks below detectable limits.

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Watson et al. (1984) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a81ae7ab35cb7638cee28d6 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1984.tb09728.x

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Animal study demonstrates focal lipid peroxidation following transient global ischemia and reperfusion in rats, indicating reoxygenation triggers localized free-radical damage.

Lipid Peroxidation In Vivo Induced by Reversible Global Ischemia in Rat Brain

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