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Rapamycin Exacerbates Cardiovascular Dysfunction after Complete High-Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury.

Abstract：

:Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening syndrome in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) above the T6 spinal level that is characterized by episodic hypertension in response to noxious stimuli below the lesion. Maladaptive intraspinal plasticity is thought to contribute to the temporal development of AD, and experimental approaches that reduce such plasticity mitigate the severity of AD. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) has gained interest as a mediator of plasticity, regeneration, and nociceptor hypersensitivity in the injured spinal cord. Based on our preliminary data that prolonged rapamycin (RAP) treatment markedly reduces mTOR activity in the cord weeks after high-thoracic (T4) spinal transection, we sought to determine whether RAP could modulate AD development by impeding intraspinal plasticity. Naïve and injured rats were administered RAP or vehicle every other day, beginning immediately after injury for four weeks, and hemodynamic monitoring was conducted to analyze the frequency of spontaneously occurring AD, as well as the severity of colorectal distention (CRD) induced AD. Results showed that after SCI, RAP significantly exacerbated sustained body weight loss and caused a marked elevation in resting blood pressure, with average daily blood pressure rising above even normal naïve levels within one week after injury. Moreover, RAP significantly increased the frequency of daily spontaneous AD and increased the absolute blood pressure induced by CRD at three weeks post-injury. These dynamic cardiovascular effects were not, however, correlated with changes in the density of nociceptive c-fibers or c-Fos+ neurons throughout the spinal cord, indicating that intraspinal plasticity associated with AD was not altered by treatment. These findings caution against the use of RAP as a therapeutic intervention for SCI because it evokes toxic weight loss and exacerbates cardiovascular dysfunction perhaps mediated by increased peripheral nociceptor sensitivity and/or vascular resistance.

journal_name

J Neurotrauma

journal_title

Journal of neurotrauma

authors

Eldahan KC,Cox DH,Gollihue JL,Patel SP,Rabchevsky AG

doi

10.1089/neu.2017.5184

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-03-15 00:00:00

pages

842-853

issue

eissn

0897-7151

issn

1557-9042

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Rapamycin Exacerbates Cardiovascular Dysfunction after Complete High-Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury.