Article: Reports from Fourth Military Medical University advance knowledge in ischemia.(Report)

According to a study from Xian, People's Republic of China, "The protective effect of sevoflurane preconditioning against spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is unclear. We designed this study to investigate whether sevoflurane preconditioning could induce rapid ischemic tolerance to the spinal cord in a rabbit model of transient spinal cord ischemia and how the role of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) is involved."

"To test whether preconditioning with sevoflurane induces rapid ischemic tolerance, New Zealand White male rabbits were randomly assigned to three groups. Animals in the Sev group received preconditioning with 3.7% sevoflurane (1.0 ...

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