Title:Hyperglycaemic Metabolic Complications of Ischemic Brain: Current
Therapeutics, Anti-Diabetics and Stem Cell Therapy
Volume: 22
Issue: 6
Author(s): Vishal Chavda and Snehal Patel*
Affiliation:
- Pharmacology Research Lab, Department of Pharmacology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382481, India
Keywords:
Cerebrovascular stroke, diabetes, neurovascular complications, Hyperglycaemia, ischemic insult, neurodegeneration.
Abstract: Stroke is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Diabetes alters
the endothelial function and disrupts brain pathways, resulting in a variety of systemic metabolic complications.
Diabetics not only have impaired neurotransmission, but also have progressive neurodegeneration,
which leads to long-term neurological complications. Diabetes risk factors and physiology
alter the frequency and severity of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, necessitating more
hospitalizations. Stroke and diabetes have a mutually reinforcing relationship that worsens their outcomes.
Diabetes has far-reaching systemic consequences for human physiology as a metabolic syndrome.
As a result, diabetic stroke patients require dual-therapeutics with dual protection. Scientific
researchers have made tremendous progress in diabetes-related stroke and its therapeutics over the last
few decades. We have summarised diabetic brain and associated risk factors, co-morbidities, biomarkers,
and hyperglycemia-associated neurovascular insult and cognitive demur. In addition to
providing an overview of the effects of hyperglycaemia on brain physiology, this article aims to summarise
the evidence from current glucose-lowering treatment, recent advances in stroke therapeutics as
well as exploring stem cell therapy in the management of diabetes-associated stroke.