Objective:To explore the protection of edaravone on acute cerebral vasospasm(CVS) after subarachnoid hemorrhage(SAH) in rats and effects of edaravone on expressions of serum S100B and endothelin-1(ET-1). Methods:Totally 60 Wistar rats were randomly assigned to four groups:control group(group C),normal saline group(group N),simple group of SAH(group SAH) and group of SAH+ edaravone(group SAH+E). CVS model after SAH was made by injecting rats’ own blood into cisterna twice. Microscopic im-age analysis was used to measure the basal artery diameter and ELISA was employed to determine S100B and ET-1serum levels pre-operatively in group C and at 6,24,72 h postoperatively in others groups. Results:Postoperative basilar artery diameters at the same time were in the following order(from small to large):group SAH,group SAH + E,group N and group C. There was no statistically significant difference between groups N and C and the differences were statistically significant between the other groups. Factorial anal-ysis suggested that different treatments exerted different effects on the results. Basilar artery spasms sustained for 72 h. At the same time after operation,serum S100B and ET-1 levels were in the following order(from high to low):group SAH,group SAH+E,group N and group C. There were statistically significant differences between groups but there was no difference between groups N and C. Fac-torial analysis suggested that different treatments exerted different effects on the results. Serum S100B and ET-1 increased consis-tently within 72 h,with statistically significant differences(P<0.05). Conclusions:Serum S100B and ET-1 levels related with acute CVS after SAH. Edaravone can make serum S100B and an ET-1 level back to normal and thus plays a controlling role in improving acute CVS after SAH.