@inbook{79d26b86357f42d291043cc48d088b8b,
title = "Capsaicin Pre-treatment Provides Neurovascular Protection Against Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury in Rats",
abstract = "Capsaicin, a transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) agonist, has recently been shown to provide neuroprotection against brain injury in experimental adult models of cerebral ischemia. Accordingly, in this study, we investigated the way in which capsaicin-mediated TRPV1 modulation could attenuate damage in an experimental hypoxic-ischemic (HI) neonatal brain injury model. The Rice-Vannucci method was used in 10-day-old rat pups by performing unilateral carotid artery ligation followed by 2 h of hypoxia (8% O2 at 37°C). Capsaicin was administered intraperitoneally (0.2 mg/kg or 2.0 mg/kg) at 3 h pre-HI or 1 h post-HI. Post assessment included measurement of infarction volume at 24 and 72 h in addition to an assessment of the vascular dynamics of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) at 6 h post-HI. The results indicated that pre-treatment with capsaicin reduced infarction volume significantly with either low-dose or high-dose treatment. Pre-treatment also improved myogenic tone and decreased apoptotic changes in the distal MCA. We concluded that capsaicin pre-treatment may provide neurovascular protection against neonatal HI.",
keywords = "Capsaicin, Neonatal hypoxia ischemia, Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1)",
author = "Khatibi, {Nikan H.} and Vikram Jadhav and Shelton Charles and Jeffrey Chiu and John Buchholz and Jiping Tang and Zhang, {John H.}",
note = "Funding Information: This study is partially supported by NIH NS043338 to J.H. Zhang, and NS060936 to J. Tang. Conflict of interest statement We declare that we have no conflict of interest.",
year = "2011",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-7091-0693-8_38",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9783709106921",
volume = "111",
series = "Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag Wien",
number = "111",
pages = "225--230",
booktitle = "Intracerebral Hemorrhage Research",
edition = "111",
}