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Our previous studies demonstrated that thrombin is an important factor in brain injury after intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage. This study examined the effect of acetazolamide, a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, on thrombin-induced hydrocephalus. There were two parts in this study. First, rats had an injection of either 50 μl saline or 3 U thrombin into the right lateral ventricle. Second, rats had an injection of 3 U thrombin into the right lateral ventricle and were treated with either vehicle or acetazolamide (30 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (IP)) at 1 h after thrombin infusion. Lateral ventricle volumes were measured in magnetic resonance imaging T2 images and the brains were used for histology analysis at 24 h later. Intraventricular injection of thrombin induced significantly larger ventricle volume (27.8 ± 3.7 vs 8.5 ± 1.3 mm3, n = 6, p < 0.01) and more ventricular wall damage (the breakdown of the ependymal layer, 20.2 ± 3.1 vs 2.4 ± 0.8 %, n = 6, p < 0.01) compared with saline injection. Acetazolamide treatment (30 mg/kg, IP) markedly attenuated thrombin-induced hydrocephalus (16.1 ± 4.2 mm3 vs 29.5 ± 5.3 mm3, n = 6, p < 0.01). These results suggest decreasing CSF production by acetazolamide attenuated thrombin-induced hydrocephalus in rats.
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This study was supported by grants NS-073959, NS079157, and NS084049 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 973 Program-2014CB541600, and grant NSFC 81471168 from National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Gao, F., Zheng, M., Hua, Y., Keep, R.F., Xi, G. (2016). Acetazolamide Attenuates Thrombin-Induced Hydrocephalus. In: Applegate, R., Chen, G., Feng, H., Zhang, J. (eds) Brain Edema XVI. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 121. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18497-5_64
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