Effect of Preconditioning with Desflurane on Phosphorylated Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3β Contents in an Experiment

The purpose of this study is to determine and evaluate if the preconditioning with desflurane depends on level of phosphoGSK3β.Material and methods. White outbred male rats (56) were randomly allocated to 6 groups. Ischemia/reperfusion modeling was performed using V. G.Korpachev's technique. The reference group consisted of sham (falselyoperated) animals. The second group underwent global ischemia/reperfusion after anesthesia with chloral hydrate. The next two groups were treated with either sevoflurane or desflurane at 1 MAC. In the final two groups, the use of same anes thetics was followed by global ischemia/reperfusion. The concentration of phosphoGSK3β in brain homogenate was determined using western blotting. A statistical analysis was performed using the MannWhitney Utest, and the difference was considered significant at P