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Animal models for the study of intracranial hematomas (Review)

2022; Spandidos Publishing; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3892/etm.2022.11719

ISSN

1792-1015

Autores

Wellingson Silva Paiva, Emanuele Zippo, Carolina Miranda, Sérgio Brasil, Daniel Agustín Godoy, Almir De Andrade, Iuri Santana Neville, Gustavo Cartaxo Patriota, Renan Domingues, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira,

Tópico(s)

Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide

Resumo

Intracranial hematomas (ICH) are a frequent condition in neurosurgical and neurological practices, with several mechanisms of primary and secondary injury. Experimental research has been fundamental for the understanding of the pathophysiology implicated with ICH and the development of therapeutic interventions. To date, a variety of different animal approaches have been described that consider, for example, the ICH evolutive phase, molecular implications and hemodynamic changes. Therefore, choosing a test protocol should consider the scope of each particular study. The present review summarized investigational protocols in experimental research on the subject of ICH. With this subject, injection of autologous blood or bacterial collagenase, inflation of intracranial balloon and avulsion of cerebral vessels were the models identified. Rodents (mice) and swine were the most frequent species used. These different models allowed improvements on the understanding of intracranial hypertension establishment, neuroinflammation, immunology, brain hemodynamics and served to the development of therapeutic strategies.

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