机构:[1]Second Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China昆明医科大学附属第一医院神经外二科(微创神经外科)神经外科外科科室
Electroacupuncture for the treatment of spinal cord injury has a good clinical curative effect, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. In our experiments, the spinal cord of adult Sprague-Dawley rats was clamped for 60 seconds. Dazhui (GV14) and Mingmen (GV4) acupoints of rats were subjected to electroacupuncture: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay revealed that the expression of serum inflammatory factors was apparently downregulated in rat models of spinal cord injury after electroacupuncture. Hematoxylin-eosin staining and immunohistochemistry results demonstrated that electroacupuncture contributed to the proliferation of neural stem cells in rat injured spinal cord, and suppressed their differentiation into astrocytes. Real-time quantitative PCR and western blot assays showed that electroacupuncture inhibited activation of the Notch signaling pathway induced by spinal cord injury. These findings indicate that electroacupuncture repaired the injured spinal cord by suppressing the Notch signaling pathway and promoting the proliferation of endogenous neural stem cells.
基金:
This work was supported by the Major Special Project of Scientific Research Fund of
Yunnan Provincial Education Department of China, No. zd2012001.
第一作者机构:[1]Second Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Xin Geng,Tao Sun,Jing-hui Li,et al.Electroacupuncture in the repair of spinal cord injury: inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway and promoting neural stem cell proliferation[J].NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH.2015,10(3):394-403.doi:10.4103/1673-5374.153687.
APA:
Xin Geng,Tao Sun,Jing-hui Li,Ning Zhao,Yong Wang&Hua-lin Yu.(2015).Electroacupuncture in the repair of spinal cord injury: inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway and promoting neural stem cell proliferation.NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH,10,(3)
MLA:
Xin Geng,et al."Electroacupuncture in the repair of spinal cord injury: inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway and promoting neural stem cell proliferation".NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH 10..3(2015):394-403