Better together? Treating traumatic brain injury with minocycline plus N-acetylcysteine.
Better together? Treating traumatic brain injury with minocycline plus N-acetylcysteine.
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DOI:
10.4103/1673-5374.336136
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发表时间:
2022-12
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
Bergold, Peter J.
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作者:
Lawless, Siobhan;Bergold, Peter J.
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Traumatic brain injury has a complex pathophysiology that produces both rapid and delayed brain damage. Rapid damage initiates immediately after injury. Treatment of traumatic brain injury is typically delayed many hours, thus only delayed damage can be targeted with drugs. Delayed traumatic brain injury includes neuroinflammation, oxidative damage, apoptosis, and glutamate toxicity. Both the speed and complexity of traumatic brain injury pathophysiology present large obstacles to drug development. Repurposing of Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs may be a highly efficient approach to get therapeutics to the clinic. This review examines the preclinical outcomes of minocycline and N-acetylcysteine as individual drugs and compares them to the minocycline plus N-acetylcysteine combination. Both minocycline and N-acetylcysteine are Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs with pleiotropic therapeutic effects. As individual drugs, minocycline and N-acetylcysteine are well tolerated, with known pharmacokinetics, and enter the brain through an intact blood-brain barrier. At concentrations greater than needed for anti-microbial action, minocycline is a potent anti-inflammatory minocycline, also acts as an antioxidant and inhibits multiple enzymes that promote brain injury including metalloproteases, caspases, and polyADP-ribose-polymerase-1. N-acetylcysteine alone is also an antioxidant. It increases brain glutathione, prevents lipid oxidation, and protects mitochondria. N-acetylcysteine also acts as an anti-inflammatory as well as increases extracellular glutamate by activating the Xc cystine-glutamate anti-transporter. These multiple actions of minocycline and N-acetylcysteine have made them attractive candidates to treat traumatic brain injury. When first dosed within the one hour after injury, either minocycline or N-acetylcysteine improves a diverse set of therapeutic outcome measures in multiple traumatic brain injury animal models. A small number of clinical trials for traumatic brain injury have established the safety of minocycline or N-acetylcysteine and suggested that either drug has some efficacy. Preclinical studies have shown that minocycline plus N-acetylcysteine have positive synergy resulting in therapeutic effects and a more prolonged therapeutic time window not seen with the individual drugs. This review compares the actions of minocycline and N-acetylcysteine, individually and in combination. Evidence supports that the combination has greater utility to treat traumatic brain injury than the individual drugs.
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