Journal article
Post-hypoxic magnesium decreases nuclear oxidative damage in the fetal guinea pig brain
Brain research, v 890(1)
2001
PMID: 11164775
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Abstract
This study was to determine if administration of MgSO
4 after the hypoxic insult (post-hypoxia) would attenuate neuronal damage in the fetal guinea pig brain. Pregnant guinea pigs (45–60 days gestation) were exposed to hypoxia (7% O
2) for 1 h. Following hypoxia, one group recovered for 24 h with no additional treatment (post-hypoxia) and another group received MgSO
4, 300 mg/kg i.p., followed by 100 mg/kg i.p., each hour for three doses (post-hypoxia+Mg) and allowed to recover for 24 h. Fetal brain magnesium content was decreased (
P<0.05) 4 h post-hypoxia which was prevented by treatment with MgSO
4. High energy phosphates were significantly lower (
P<0.05) in the post-hypoxia group which was partially prevented by post-hypoxic magnesium. Na
+,K
+-ATPase activity was significantly lower (
P<0.05) and nuclear membrane fluorescent compounds were significantly higher (
P<0.05) in the post-hypoxia group but were not significantly changed in the post-hypoxia+Mg group compared with the normoxic control group. DNA fragmentation was observed to be lower in the Mg-treated post-hypoxic group. This study demonstrates that maternal MgSO
4 administration following in utero hypoxia prevents associated decreases in fetal brain magnesium and suppresses alterations in both the neuronal and nuclear membranes and genomic fragmentation in the fetal guinea pig brain.
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- Title
- Post-hypoxic magnesium decreases nuclear oxidative damage in the fetal guinea pig brain
- Creators
- Dev Maulik - Winthrop-University HospitalImran Qayyum - Drexel UniversitySaul R. Powell - Winthrop-University HospitalMaria Karantza - Drexel UniversityOm Prakash Mishra - Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Pennsylvania — Hahnemann School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USAMaria Delivoria-Papadopoulos - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Brain research, v 890(1)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pediatrics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000166676400013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0035951657
- Other Identifier
- 991019168699804721
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