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Effects of an A1 adenosine receptor agonist on the neurochemical, behavioral and histological consequences of ischemia.

Untreated rats and rats given the A1 receptor adenosine agonist, R-phenylisopropyladenosine (R-PIA), were subjected to four vessel ischemia. The effect of R-PIA on hippocampal amino acid release, hippocampal neuronal damage, exploratory behavior, learning capacity and global neurological score were evaluated. R-PIA decreased by half the glutamate released during ischemia and improved the global neurological scores 3, 24, 48, 78 h and 7 days after ischemia. But R-PIA had no effect on taurine/GABA release (during ischemia), hippocampal neuronal damage (7 days post-ischemia), exploratory behavior (48 h post-ischemia) or learning capacity (7 days post-ischemia). Thus, a decrease in glutamate release by R-PIA is not systematically correlated with an improvement of histological damage or learning capacity. Reduced glutamate release is not therefore a sufficient criterion on which to evaluate the neuroprotective capacity of a drug.[1]

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  1. Effects of an A1 adenosine receptor agonist on the neurochemical, behavioral and histological consequences of ischemia. Héron, A., Lekieffre, D., Le Peillet, E., Lasbennes, F., Seylaz, J., Plotkine, M., Boulu, R.G. Brain Res. (1994) [Pubmed]
 
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