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Journal Article
Reperfusion and cytoprotective agents are a mutually beneficial pair in ischaemic stroke therapy: an overview of pathophysiology, pharmacological targets and candidate drugs focusing on excitotoxicity and free radical
2024
Overview
Stroke is the second-leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in much of the world. In particular, China faces the greatest challenge from stroke, since the population is aged quickly. In decades of clinical trials, no neuroprotectant has had reproducible efficacy on primary clinical end points, because reperfusion is probably a necessity for neuroprotection to be clinically beneficial. Fortunately, the success of thrombolysis and endovascular thrombectomy has taken us into a reperfusion era of acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) therapy. Brain cytoprotective agents can prevent detrimental effects of ischaemia, and therefore ‘freeze’ ischaemic penumbra before reperfusion, extend the time window for reperfusion therapy. Because reperfusion often leads to reperfusion injury, including haemorrhagic transformation, brain oedema, infarct progression and neurological worsening, cytoprotective agents will enhance the efficacy and safety of reperfusion therapy by preventing or reducing reperfusion injuries. Therefore, reperfusion and cytoprotective agents are a mutually beneficial pair in AIS therapy. In this review, we outline critical pathophysiological events causing cell death within the penumbra after ischaemia or ischaemia/reperfusion in the acute phase of AIS, focusing on excitotoxicity and free radicals. We discuss key pharmacological targets for cytoprotective therapy and evaluate the recent advances of cytoprotective agents going through clinical trials, highlighting multitarget cytoprotective agents that intervene at multiple levels of the ischaemic and reperfusion cascade.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd,BMJ Publishing Group LTD,BMJ Publishing Group
Subject
/ Animals
/ Brain
/ Drugs
/ Humans
/ Injuries
/ Ischemia
/ Ischemic Stroke - drug therapy
/ Ischemic Stroke - metabolism
/ Ischemic Stroke - physiopathology
/ Neuroprotective Agents - adverse effects
/ Neuroprotective Agents - pharmacology
/ Nitrogen
/ Reperfusion Injury - drug therapy
/ Reperfusion Injury - metabolism
/ Reperfusion Injury - pathology
/ Reperfusion Injury - physiopathology
/ Review
/ Signal Transduction - drug effects
/ Stroke
