2007 Heart-Brain summit proceedings

Preconditioning paradigms and pathways in the brain

Karl B. Shpargel

Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Walid Jalabi, PhD

Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Yongming Jin

Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Alisher Dadabayev, MD

Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine,

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Marc S. Penn, MD, PhD

Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; and Director, Bakken Heart-Brain Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Bruce D. Trapp, PhD

Chairman, Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

trappb@ccf.org

ABSTRACT

Preconditioning is a phenomenon in which the brain protects itself against future injury by adapting to low doses of noxious insults. Preconditioning stimuli include ischemia, low doses of endotoxin, hypoxia, hypothermia and hyperthermia, cortical spreading depression, anesthetics, and 3-nitropropionic acid, among others. Understanding of the mechanisms underlying preconditioning has been elusive, but NMDA receptor activation, nitric oxide, inflammatory cytokines, and suppression of the innate immune system appear to have a role. Elucidation of the endogenous cell survival pathways involved in preconditioning has significant clinical implications for preventing neuronal damage in susceptible patients.

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