Electrical stimulation for the treatment of spinal cord injuries: A review of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive functional improvements

RM Dorrian, CF Berryman, A Lauto… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that causes severe loss of motor, sensory
and autonomic functions. Additionally, many individuals experience chronic neuropathic …

Functional ultrasound imaging: a new imaging modality for neuroscience

T Deffieux, C Demené, M Tanter - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasound sensitivity to slow blood flow motion gained two orders of magnitude in the last
decade thanks to the advent of ultrafast ultrasound imaging at thousands of frames per …

Ultrasound in traumatic spinal cord injury: a wide-open field

BY Hwang, D Mampre, AK Ahmed, I Suk… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a common and devastating condition. In the absence of
effective validated therapies, there is an urgent need for novel methods to achieve injury …

The neurovascular unit in healthy and injured spinal cord

R Zhou, J Li, R Wang, Z Chen… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The neurovascular unit (NVU) reflects the close temporal and spatial link between neurons
and blood vessels. However, the understanding of the NVU in the spinal cord is far from …

Ultrafast Doppler imaging and ultrasound localization microscopy reveal the complexity of vascular rearrangement in chronic spinal lesion

B Beliard, C Ahmanna, E Tiran, K Kanté, T Deffieux… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to severe damage to the microvascular network. The
process of spontaneous repair is accompanied by formation of new blood vessels; their …

The translesional spinal network and its reorganization after spinal cord injury

P Krupa, AM Siddiqui, PJ Grahn, R Islam… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence from preclinical and clinical research suggest that neuromodulation technologies
can facilitate the sublesional spinal networks, isolated from supraspinal commands after …

Combined supra-and sub-lesional epidural electrical stimulation for restoration of the motor functions after spinal cord injury in mini pigs

F Fadeev, A Eremeev, F Bashirov, R Shevchenko… - Brain Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study evaluates the effect of combined epidural electrical stimulation (EES) applied
above (C5) and below (L2) the spinal cord injury (SCI) at T8–9 combined with motor training …

Super-resolution ultrasound microvascular angiography for spinal cord penumbra imaging

J Yu, H Dong, D Ta, R **e, K Xu - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective After spinal cord injury (SCI) or ischemia, timely intervention in the penumbra,
such as recanalization and tissue reperfusion, is essential for preservation of its function …

[HTML][HTML] Functional ultrasound imaging: A useful tool for functional connectomics?

JMM de Paz, E Macé - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Functional ultrasound (fUS) is a hemodynamic-based functional neuroimaging technique,
primarily used in animal models, that combines a high spatiotemporal resolution, a large …

A strategy for magnetic and electric stimulation to enhance proliferation and differentiation of NPCs seeded over PLA electrospun membranes

I Cuenca-Ortolá, B Martínez-Rojas, V Moreno-Manzano… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neural progenitor cells (NPCs) have been shown to serve as an efficient therapeutic
strategy in different cell therapy approaches, including spinal cord injury treatment. Despite …