Abstract:
:Purpose: Caspase-3 is known as a crucial effector for apoptotic cell death. Apoptosis has recently been recognized as an important cell death mechanism after spinal cord injury (SCI). This study attempts to define the effect of methylprednisolone (MP) on the activation of caspase-3 in the lesioned area following SCI. Methods: Forty-eight rats with a complete transection of the thoracic spinal cord received a placebo or MP (30 mg/kg, iv.) at 5 min, 2 and 4 h post-injury and were then sacrificed at 12, 24 h, 3 or 7 days thereafter. Results: Caspase-3 positive cells in the lesioned area were immunocytochemically observed in both cord stumps and decreased in number with increasing distance from the lesion site. More caspase-3 positive cells were present in the MP-treated group than the control group at all time points, but the differences were not statistically significant. Conclusion: These results suggest that the MP-induced decrease of tissue loss following SCI may not involve a reduction of apoptotic cell death.
journal_name
Restor Neurol Neuroscijournal_title
Restorative neurology and neuroscienceauthors
Li X,Oudega M,Dancausse HA,Levi ADsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-01-01 00:00:00pages
203-209issue
4eissn
0922-6028issn
1878-3627journal_volume
17pub_type
杂志文章abstract:PURPOSE:The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is somatotopically reorganized after limb amputation. The duration of the amputation, the intensity of phantom limb pain but also a multifactoral model of altered cerebral input have been discussed to be associated with cortical changes. Patients with finger amputation rare...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-130380
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-130385
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the present study, we have developed an animal model for central nervous system (CNS) damage using the graded crush injury of the adult rat optic nerve. This injury model has the following characteristics: (a) the injuries are reproducible; (b) the injuries can be created with controlled severity; and (c) variation...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-1990-2104
更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Injury of the nervous system initiates a cascade of signal transduction including a rise in extracellular glutamate which leads to subsequent secondary neuronal loss. Excitotoxicity is known to play a crucial role in cell death spinal cord trauma. Gangliosides, particularly monosialogangliosides (GM1), are protective ...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To demonstrate, in a proof-of-concept study, whether potentiating ipsilesional higher motor areas (premotor cortex and supplementary motor area) augments and accelerates recovery associated with constraint induced movement. METHODS:In a randomized, double-blinded pilot clinical study, 12 patients with chronic ...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.3233/RNN-150574
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Despite advances towards potential clinically viable therapies there has been only limited success in improving functional recovery following traumatic brain injury (TBI). In rats, exposure to an enriched environment (EE) improves learning and fosters motor skill development. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-140408
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The response of astroglial cells in the hippocampus to long-term portacaval anastomosis (PCA), an experimental model of hepatic encephalopathy, was studied in adult male rats and compared with controls. Six months after PCA, the rat hippocampi were processed for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). GFAP-immunoposit...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) has immune-modulatory and neuro-protective characteristics that can be used for treatment of acute ischemic stroke. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the therapeutic effects of DMF on histological and functional recovery of rats after transient middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. METHODS...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-160670
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries are severe burdens for the patients, their relatives, the health care providers and society as a whole. Recent data demonstrate the magnitude of the problem: It is mostly a disease of the young gen-eration (age 20-45 years) with mortality rates for severe traumatic brain injury...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Progressive apoptosis in the dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra lead to Parkinson's disease. Since neurons require substantially higher supply of energy, their mitochondria have a pivotal status in neuronal survival. These organelles have a key role to play in apoptosis and any impairment thereof may l...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-180852
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:After stroke, the learned non-use of a paretic arm is a major obstacle to the improvement of hand function. OBJECTIVE:We examined whether patients with a central paresis could profit from applying the self-regulation strategy of making if-then plans that specify situational triggers to using the paretic arm...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-170748
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3233/RNN-2009-0495
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Ischemic stroke is associated with a variety pathophysiological changes affecting both glial and neuronal brain tissue. These changes are mirrored in the release of specific proteins into peripheral blood. Neurone-specific enolase (NSE), protein S100B and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are those protein...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), can modify cortical excitability in a lasting fashion. The modification can be bi-directional in nature and holds considerable therapeutic promise for a number of neurological conditions. However, the effectiveness ...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3233/RNN-2010-0565
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Specific investigation of dual task-interference (DTI) may help researchers to develop the optimal training exercise for enhancing the performance of daily activities. OBJECTIVES:To reveal the DTI by comparing the performances between personalized single tasks (cognitive or motor task) and dual task with se...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.3233/RNN-180825
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:A realistic body representation needs to be constantly updated. In case of physiological modifications, body representations integrate information coming from different sensory sources, including the sense of touch. Previous studies described transient modifications of these representations following illusory d...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-120286
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy of an expanded form of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (eCIMT) that renders CIMT, originally designed for treating mild-to-moderate upper-extremity hemiparesis, suitable for treating severe hemiparesis. METHODS:Twenty-one adults ≥1 year after stroke with severe upper-extremity hemi...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.3233/RNN-170792
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Robotic rehabilitation is a highly promising approach to recover lost functions after stroke or other neurological disorders. Unfortunately, robotic rehabilitation currently suffers from "motor slacking", a phenomenon in which the human motor system reduces muscle activation levels and movement excursions, o...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-180830
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-1990-13418
更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To determine how age at the time of left middle cerebral artery stroke affects language lateralization in a combined sample of subjects with perinatal, childhood, and adult stroke. METHODS:19 participants who had perinatal stroke (<1 month of age), 32 with later stroke, and 51 sex-/age-matched healthy controls...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-140402
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Interacting with others by reading their emotional expressions is an essential social skill in humans. How this ability develops during infancy and what brain processes underpin infants' perception of emotion in different modalities are the questions dealt with in this paper. METHODS:Literature review. RESULT...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3233/RNN-2010-0499
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to provide intensive, repetitive, and task-oriented training, and game-based therapy can enhance patients' motivation and enjoyment. OBJECTIVE:The objective of the present study was to develop a mobile game-based upper extremity VR program for patients who have experie...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.3233/RNN-150626
更新日期:2016-05-02 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The effectiveness of embryonic stem cell (eSC) therapy has been explored in many models of neurological disease and several research groups have shown that eSC treatment leads to improved outcomes in pre-clinical models of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Though functional recovery occurs, few surviving eSCs appea...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-120299
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:There is considerable variability in the extent and nature of the glial response to injury and neurodegeneration. Transplantation of fetal cortical tissue onto the brain of neonatal host rats or mice results in region-specific changes dependent on where the fetal tissue is placed. These changes include chronic ...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-150591
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Previous studies demonstrated that administering extradural cortical stimulation (ECS) to rats during the acute phase of a photothrombotic infarct enhances motor recovery. However, the effect of ECS during the subacute phase was unknown. We aimed to evaluate the effects of ECS on motor recovery in a rat model o...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-140445
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bridging large defects in mixed nerves is still an unsolved problem in reconstructive microsurgery. Two main aspects may be distinguished: one is to obtain an appropriate substitute for the lost neural tissue, the second to direct fibers toward their previous end-organs with the highest possible specificity. In the pr...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-1997-11306
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::IVth International Symposium on Neural TransplantationEdited by William J. Freed and Jeffrey M. RosensteinThe George Washington University, Washington, DC, USAJuly 12-16, 1992. ...
journal_title:Restorative neurology and neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3233/RNN-1992-4301
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00