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Medications for Alcohol Withdrawal/Brain Damage

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Agency:
Department of Health and Human Services 		Branch:
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29075 		Program Year/Program:
1997 / SBIR
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29075 		Solicitation Year:
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Small Business Information
LOHOCLA RESEARCH CORPORATION
LOHOCLA RESEARCH CORPORATION 12635 E. Montview Blvd. AURORA, CO 80045 7337
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Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 1997
Title: Medications for Alcohol Withdrawal/Brain Damage
Agency: HHS
Contract: 1 R43 AA09930-01A1,
Award Amount: $748,637.00
 

Abstract:

Chronic ethanol ingestion results in neurodegeneration with loss of neurons, glial proliferation anventricular and subarachnoid space. Work from our laboratories has demonstrated that chronic ethanolanimals produces an up-regulation of the excitatory N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamateWe have recently implicated the NMDA receptor system in induction of excitotoxic damage to various nduring ethanol withdrawal. We will test a series of compounds for their effectiveness in protectingcerebellum and cerebral cortex, grown in culture, against ethanol withdrawal induced excitotoxic damthe effectiveness of a novel NMDA receptor channel blocker, (+)-5- aminocarbonyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5,10-imine(ADCI), which we have previously shown to be an excellent agent fobehavioral hyperexcitability (tremor, convulsions) during ethanol withdrawal in animals. We will alscycloleucine, and low efficacy partial agonists i.e.,; 1-neuroprotective actions in our cell culturewithdrawal excitotoxicity. Finally, we will test a series of gangliosides, including GM1 and GT1b, shave been touted to protect against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity without compromising the initiarelated events accompanying NMDA receptor stimulation. Our studies will generate an understanding ofcompounds are most effective for preventing ethanol withdrawal excitotoxicity and provide a basis foanimals in Phase II of the SBIR program.

Principal Investigator:

Lawrence Snell
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Lohocla Research Corp.
505 Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60202

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