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Impact of Dexmedetomidine infusion on oxidative stress and DNA damage by Isoflurane exposure in surgery

Impact of Dexmedetomidine infusion on Isoflurane induced oxidative stress and DNA damage in patients undergoing major emergency surgery.

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
TCTR
Registry ID
TCTR20211230001
Enrollment
48
Registered
2021-12-30
Start date
2019-09-05
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-08-03

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Conditions

DNA damage following isoflurane infusion intraoperatively Dexmedetomidine, Isoflurane oxidative stress DNA damage

Interventions

The group A patients received anesthetic drugs according to the established protocol of general anesthesia and maintained with ISO at nearly Minimum alveolar concentration of 1.2 MAC.Intravenous blood
Experimental Drug,Experimental Drug
Group A (ISO alone) (n-12),Group B (ISO and DEX) (n-12)

Sponsors

University of veterinary and animals science Lahore, Pakistan
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Male
Age
18 Years to 50 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Male patients aged from 18 to 50 years, will be classified by American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) with physical status of 1-II (including healthy patients with no existing systemic disease other than surgical abnormality) undergoing invasive emergency surgeries lasting for at least four hours will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: ASA (American society of Anesthesiology) class 3 and 4, Diabetics, Overweight individuals, those with recently intake of antioxidant supplements or any medication, those who received radiation recently and elderly patients with decreased intravascular volume as they are prone to hypotension, will be excluded from the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
DNA Damage 0, 4, 8, and 16 hours of anaesthesia induction Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis (SCGE)/Comet Assay

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
oxidative stress marker malondialdehyde (MDA) ,endogenous antioxidants superoxide dismutases (SOD) and catalases (CAT). 0, 4, 8, and 16 hours of anaesthesia induction (Ohkawa et al.) for lipid peroxides . 1979; (Kakkar et al. )spectrophotometric assay of superoxide dismutase. 1984. (Hadwan et al.) spectrophotometric method for catalase activity.

Countries

Pakistan

Contacts

Public Contactsadaf aroosa

university of veterinary and animal science Lahore Pakistan

sadafaroosa10@gmail.com03354228844

Outcome results

None listed

Source: TCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 9, 2026