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Effect of Dexamethasone on Altered Brain Vascular Permeability
Howard M. Eisenberg, MD;
Charles F. Barlow, MD;
Antonio V. Lorenzo, PhD
Arch Neurol. 1970;23(1):18-22.
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SEVERAL studies have demonstrated the ability of experimentally induced seizures to increase the penetration of a variety of blood borne solutes into brain.1-5 In general, this increase has been attributed to an alteration in the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, as indicated by the increased passage of albumin from blood to central nervous system (CNS).2,3,6 Under normal conditions, little, if any, blood protein gains access to the CNS.7 A recent report from this laboratory has shown that the increase in brain permeability to albumin labeled with iodine 131, associated with prolonged pentylentetrazol seizures, was predominantly restricted to the thalamus, reversible within minutes after arrest of the seizure, and accompanied by an appreciable increase in the total water content of the thalamus.8 These features provided a useful model to assess the effectiveness of glucosteroids on altered brain permeability, since the alteration (1) has a specific localization,
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Author Affiliations
Boston
From the departments of neurology (Drs. Lorenzo and Barlow) and neurosurgery (Dr. Eisenberg), Children's Hospital Medical Center, and pharmacology (Dr. Lorenzo), Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 3, 1969; accepted Jan 9, 1970.
Read before the 37th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Cleveland, April 15, 1969.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston 02115 (Dr. Lorenzo).
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