Thrombomodulin Improves Cognitive Deficits in Heat-Stressed Mice.

The findings suggest that heat stress can lead to exacerbated stress reactions, endotoxemia, gut barrier disruption, blood-brain barrier disruption, hippocampal inflammation, coagulopathy, and oxidative stress, which may act as causative factors for cognitive deficits. Thrombomodulin, an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-coagulatory agent, inhibited heat stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice.