abstract：:Peripheral inflammation induces sensitization of nociceptive spinal cord neurons. Both spinal tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and neuronal membrane insertion of Ca2+ permeable AMPA receptor (AMPAr) contribute to spinal sensitization and resultant pain behavior, molecular mechanisms connecting these two events have not bee...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Wigerblad G,Huie JR,Yin HZ,Leinders M,Pritchard RA,Koehrn FJ,Xiao WH,Bennett GJ,Huganir RL,Ferguson AR,Weiss JH,Svensson CI,Sorkin LS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is one of the neuropeptides showing the strongest up-regulation in the nociceptive pathway after peripheral nerve injury and has been proposed to support neuropathic pain. Nevertheless, the story may be more complicated considering the known suppressive effects of the peptide on the...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Gallo A,Leerink M,Michot B,Ahmed E,Forget P,Mouraux A,Hermans E,Deumens R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-order neurons in trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (Vc) and upper cervical spinal cord (C1) are critical for craniofacial pain processing and project rostrally to terminate in: ventral posteromedial thalamic nucleus (VPM), medial thalamic nuclei (MTN) and parabrachial nuclei (PBN). The contribution of each region ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Saito H,Katagiri A,Okada S,Mikuzuki L,Kubo A,Suzuki T,Ohara K,Lee J,Gionhaku N,Iinuma T,Bereiter DA,Iwata K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective motor neuron degeneration in the motor cortex, brainstem and spinal cord. It is generally accepted that ALS is caused by death of motor neurons, however the exact temporal cascade of degenerative processes is not yet complete...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Marcuzzo S,Bonanno S,Figini M,Scotti A,Zucca I,Minati L,Riva N,Domi T,Fossaghi A,Quattrini A,Galbardi B,D'Alessandro S,Bruzzone MG,García-Verdugo JM,Moreno-Manzano V,Mantegazza R,Bernasconi P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neurochemical target at which cannabinoids interact to have global effects on behavior is brain noradrenergic circuitry. Acute and repeated administration of a cannabinoid receptor synthetic agonist is capable of increasing multiple indices of noradrenergic activity. This includes cannabinoid-induced 1) increases in...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Reyes BAS,Carvalho AF,Szot P,Kalamarides DJ,Wang Q,Kirby LG,Van Bockstaele EJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downregulation in the astroglial glutamate transporter EAAT2 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and mutant SOD1 mouse models of ALS is believed to contribute to the death of motor neurons by excitotoxicity. We previously reported that caspase-3 cleaves EAAT2 at a unique cleavage consensus site located in ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Rosenblum LT,Shamamandri-Markandaiah S,Ghosh B,Foran E,Lepore AC,Pasinelli P,Trotti D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that Purinergic 2X7 receptor (P2X7R) and NLRP3 inflammasome contribute to the inflammatory activation. In this study, we investigated whether P2X7R/NLRP3 pathway is involved in the caspase-3 dependent neuronal apoptosis after ischemic stroke by using a focal cortex ischemic stroke model. Th...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Ye X,Shen T,Hu J,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Bao L,Cui C,Jin G,Zan K,Zhang Z,Yang X,Shi H,Zu J,Yu M,Song C,Wang Y,Qi S,Cui G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effect of glial progenitor transplantation in diseases of dysmyelination is currently attributed to the formation of new myelin. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we show that the therapeutic outcome in dysmyelinated shiverer mice is dependent on the extent of cell migration but not the presence ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Lyczek A,Arnold A,Zhang J,Campanelli JT,Janowski M,Bulte JW,Walczak P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status epilepticus (SE) in rats, along with chronic epilepsy, leads to the development of behavioral impairments resembling depressive disorder and/or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), thus reflecting respective comorbidities in epilepsy patients. Suppressed neurotransmitter tone in the raphe nucleus (R...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Medel-Matus JS,Shin D,Sankar R,Mazarati A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breathing is a vital homeostatic behavior and must be precisely regulated throughout life. Clinical conditions commonly associated with inflammation, undermine respiratory function may involve plasticity in respiratory control circuits to compensate and maintain adequate ventilation. Alternatively, other clinical cond...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Hocker AD,Stokes JA,Powell FL,Huxtable AG

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review outlines data consistent with the hypothesis that inspiratory drive transmission that generates fetal breathing movements (FBMs) is essential for the developmental plasticity of phrenic motoneurons (PMNs) and diaphragm musculature prior to birth. A systematic examination during the perinatal period demonstr...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Greer JJ,Martin-Caraballo M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pompe disease is an inherited disorder due to a mutation in the gene that encodes acid α-glucosidase (GAA). Children with infantile-onset Pompe disease develop progressive hypotonic weakness and cardiopulmonary insufficiency that may eventually require mechanical ventilation (MV). Our team conducted a first in human t...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Smith BK,Martin AD,Lawson LA,Vernot V,Marcus J,Islam S,Shafi N,Corti M,Collins SW,Byrne BJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breathing is a life-sustaining behavior that in mammals is accomplished by activation of dedicated muscles responsible for inspiratory and expiratory forces acting on the lung and chest wall. Motor control is exerted by specialized pools of motoneurons in the medulla and spinal cord innervated by projections from mult...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Mantilla CB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory central pattern generator must respond to chemosensory cues to maintain oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) homeostasis in the blood and tissues. To do this, sensorial cells located in the periphery and central nervous system monitor the arterial partial pressure of O2 and CO2 and initiate respiratory...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Barnett WH,Abdala AP,Paton JF,Rybak IA,Zoccal DB,Molkov YI

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most individuals, the respiratory control system produces a remarkably stable and coordinated motor output-recognizable as a breath-from birth until death. Very little is understood regarding the processes by which the respiratory control system maintains network stability in the presence of changing physiological...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Braegelmann KM,Streeter KA,Fields DP,Baker TL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is consistently up-regulated in various neurological disorders, including epilepsy. Here, we show that the biogenesis of miR-21 is altered following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (SE) with an increase in precursor miR-21 (pre-miR-21) in rats. We demonstrate that pre-miR-21 has an energeti...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Chak K,Roy-Chaudhuri B,Kim HK,Kemp KC,Porter BE,Kay MA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human small heat shock proteins (HSPBs) form a family of molecular chaperones comprising ten members (HSPB1-HSPB10), whose functions span from protein quality control to cytoskeletal dynamics and cell death control. Mutations in HSPBs can lead to human disease and particularly point mutations in HSPB1 and HSPB8 ar...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： La Padula V,Staszewski O,Nestel S,Busch H,Boerries M,Roussa E,Prinz M,Krieglstein K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often experience increased sensory responsiveness in the urinary bladder reflecting neurogenic bladder overactivity. Here we demonstrate that colitis-induced up-regulation of the phospholipase C gamma (PLCγ) pathway downstream of brain-de...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Xia C,Shen S,Hashmi F,Qiao LY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has been shown that there is impaired cerebral endothelial function in many chronic neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease. Such problems have also been reported in Parkinson's disease, in which α-synuclein aggregation is the pathological hallmark. However, little is kno...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Kuan WL,Bennett N,He X,Skepper JN,Martynyuk N,Wijeyekoon R,Moghe PV,Williams-Gray CH,Barker RA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central role for noradrenergic dysregulation in the pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly suggested by both clinical and basic neuroscience research. Here, we integrate recent findings from clinical and animal research with the earlier literature. We first review the evidence for n...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Hendrickson RC,Raskind MA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging genetic studies that associate genetic and epigenetic variation with neural activity or structure provide an opportunity to link genes to psychiatric disorders, often before psychopathology is discernable in behavior. Here we review neuroimaging genetics studies with participants who have Posttraumatic St...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Lebois LAM,Wolff JD,Ressler KJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesiotemporal lobe Epilepsy (MTLE), the most frequent form of focal epilepsy, is often drug-resistant. Enriching the epileptic focus with GABA-releasing engineered cells has been proposed as a strategy to prevent seizures. However, ex vivo data from animal models and MTLE patients suggest that, due to changes in chlor...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Stamboulian-Platel S,Legendre A,Chabrol T,Platel JC,Pernot F,Duveau V,Roucard C,Baudry M,Depaulis A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal injury is present in essentially all clinically significant cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI). While no effective treatment has been identified to date, experimental TBI models have shown promising axonal protection using immunosuppressants FK506 and Cyclosporine-A, with treatment benefits attributed to cal...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Reeves TM,Trimmer PA,Colley BS,Phillips LL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are responsible for fast excitatory neurotransmission, and their prolonged activation can result in the generation and spread of epileptic seizures. At early stages of postnatal development, the majority of AMPARs are permeable to both Na(+) and Ca(2+) ions. This permeability, which increases n...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Szczurowska E,Ergang P,Kubová H,Druga R,Salaj M,Mareš P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin accelerates action potential conduction velocity and provides essential energy support for axons. Unfortunately, myelin and myelinating cells are often vulnerable to injury or disease, resulting in myelin damage, which in turn can lead to axon dysfunction, overt pathology and neurological impairment. Inflammati...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Goldstein EZ,Church JS,Hesp ZC,Popovich PG,McTigue DM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, it has become evident that Parkinson's disease is associated with a self-sustaining cycle of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, with dying neurons activating microglia, which, once activated, can release several factors that kill further neurons. One emerging pharmacological target that has the ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Concannon RM,Okine BN,Finn DP,Dowd E

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants born very preterm are at high risk for neurological deficits including cerebral palsy. In this study we assessed the neuroprotective effects of umbilical cord blood cells (UCBCs) and optimal administration timing in a fetal sheep model of preterm brain injury. 50 million allogeneic UCBCs were intravenously adm...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Li J,Yawno T,Sutherland A,Loose J,Nitsos I,Bischof R,Castillo-Melendez M,McDonald CA,Wong FY,Jenkin G,Miller SL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of growth factors are being explored as therapeutic agents relevant to the axonal and oligodendroglial deficits that occur as a result of demyelinating lesions such as are evident in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This review focuses on five such proteins that are present in the lesion site and impact oligodendroc...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Huang Y,Dreyfus CF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillatory activity has been well-studied in many structures within cortico-basal ganglia circuits, but it is not well understood within the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), which was recently introduced as a potential target for the treatment of gait and postural impairments in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Li M,Zhou M,Wen P,Wang Q,Yang Y,Xiao H,Xie Z,Li X,Wang N,Wang J,Luo F,Chang J,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise mechanisms underlying the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in autoimmune neurological disorders including Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are not known. Anti-ganglioside antibodies have been reported to be pathogenic in some variants of GBS, and we have developed passive transfer animal models t...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Zhang G,Massaad CA,Gao T,Pillai L,Bogdanova N,Ghauri S,Sheikh KA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients treated with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), have been known to develop neuropathic pain. While there has been a major shift away from some neurotoxic NRTIs in current antiretroviral therapy, a large number of HIV patients alive today have previously rec...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Iida T,Yi H,Liu S,Huang W,Kanda H,Lubarsky DA,Hao S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cascade of events leading to post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains unclear. Altered inhibition in the hippocampal formation and dentate gyrus is a hallmark of several neurological disorders, including TBI and PTE. Inhibitory synaptic signaling in the hippocampus is predominately ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Butler CR,Boychuk JA,Smith BN

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory motor output after cervical spinal cord injury (cSCI) is profoundly influenced by spinal serotonin. We hypothesized that intraspinal transplantation of embryonic midline brainstem (MB) cells rich in serotonergic raphé neurons would improve respiratory outcomes after cSCI. One week after hemisection of the ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Dougherty BJ,Gonzalez-Rothi EJ,Lee KZ,Ross HH,Reier PJ,Fuller DD

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While past neuroimaging methods have contributed greatly to our understanding of brain function after traumatic brain injury (TBI), resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI) connectivity methods have more recently provided a far more unbiased approach with which to monitor brain circuitry compared to task-based approaches...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Harris NG,Verley DR,Gutman BA,Thompson PM,Yeh HJ,Brown JA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelinated axons efficiently transmit information over long distances. The apposed myelin sheath confers favorable electrical properties, but restricts access of the axon to its extracellular milieu. Therefore, axonal metabolic support may require specific axo-myelinic communication. Here we explored activity-dependen...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Micu I,Plemel JR,Lachance C,Proft J,Jansen AJ,Cummins K,van Minnen J,Stys PK

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathological studies of human traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases have described amyloid plaques acutely after a single severe TBI, and tau pathology after repeat mild TBI (mTBI). This has helped drive the hypothesis that a single moderate to severe TBI increases the risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disea...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Washington PM,Villapol S,Burns MP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxaliplatin (OXA) is the common and extremely potent anti-advanced colorectal cancer chemotherapeutic. Accumulating evidence reveals that OXA evokes mechanical and cold hypersensitivity. However, the mechanism underlying these bothersome and dose-limiting adverse effects is poorly understood. It is well known that cyc...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Jiang SP,Zhang ZD,Kang LM,Wang QH,Zhang L,Chen HP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and the most common neurodegenerative disorder. AD is mostly a sporadic disorder and its main risk factor is age, but mutations in three genes that promote the accumulation of the amyloid-β (Aβ42) peptide revealed the critical role of amyloid precursor protein ...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Fernandez-Funez P,de Mena L,Rincon-Limas DE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the spinal cord represents one of the most complex structure developments of the central nervous system (CNS) as it has to unfold along the longitudinal axis and within segmental cues. There it has to cope with on the one hand connection to the periphery (skeletal muscle, dermomyotome, smooth muscle...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Wiese S,Faissner A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron death. Since most ALS patients succumb to ventilatory failure from loss of respiratory motor neurons, any effective ALS treatment must preserve and/or restore breathing capacity. In rats over-expressi...

journal_title：Experimental neurology

authors： Nichols NL,Satriotomo I,Harrigan DJ,Mitchell GS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00