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Activation of the Kynurenine pathway in the acute phase of stroke and its role in fatigue and depression following stroke
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Many stroke survivors suffer from poststroke fatigue (PSF) and poststroke depression (PSD), indicating the importance of increasing the base of knowledge about the mechanisms underlying these sequelae. The primary aim of this study was to determine whether activation of the kynurenine (KYN) pathway predicts subsequent fatigue or depression in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients. Acute serum levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), tryptophan (TRP) catabolites (TRYCATs), and competing amino acids, as well as subsequent fatigue and depression, were measured in 45 stroke patients. TRP index [=100 x TRP / (tyrosine + valine + phenylalanine + leucine + isoleucine)] was significantly lower in patients with a Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) score of a parts per thousand yen4 at 12 months than in those with an FSS score of < 4 (p = 0.039). Furthermore, the serum level of kynurenic acid in the acute stroke phase was significantly higher in patients with an FSS of score a parts per thousand yen4 at 18 months than in those with an FSS score of < 4 (p = 0.026). These findings indicate that stroke patients with PSF have a lower bioavailability of TRP for 5-HT synthesis in the brain in the acute stroke phase. However, they also appear to have greater neuroprotective potential in that phase. In contrast to PSF, no predictors of PSD were found. These findings together with those of previous studies suggest that the immune response and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase activation that follows AIS can predict PSF but not PSD.
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English
Source (journal)
Journal of molecular neuroscience. - Boston, Mass., 1989, currens
Publication
Boston, Mass. : 2014
ISSN
0895-8696 [print]
1559-1166 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S12031-014-0272-0
Volume/pages
54 :2 (2014) , p. 181-187
ISI
000341831400005
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