The role of aquaporins in spinal cord injury

TA Garcia, CR Jonak, DK Binder - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Edema formation following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) exacerbates secondary injury,
and the severity of edema correlates with worse neurological outcome in human patients. To …

Significance of spinal cord perfusion pressure following spinal cord injury: a systematic sco** review

CM Gee, BK Kwon - Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, 2022 - Elsevier
This sco** review systematically reviewed relevant research to summarize the literature
addressing the significance of monitoring spinal cord perfusion pressure (SCPP) in acute …

[HTML][HTML] The role of aquaporin 4 (AQP4) in spinal cord injury

QL Pan, FX Lin, N Liu, RC Chen - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Aquaporin-4 (AQP-4) is an aquaporin composed of six helical transmembrane
domains and two highly conserved ASN-pro-ALA (NPA) motifs. It is strongly expressed in …

The role of substance P in secondary pathophysiology after traumatic brain injury

R Vink, L Gabrielian, E Thornton - Frontiers in neurology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
It has recently been shown that substance P (SP) plays a major role in the secondary injury
process following traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly with respect to neuroinflammation …

The relative contribution of edema and hemorrhage to raised intrathecal pressure after traumatic spinal cord injury

AV Leonard, E Thornton, R Vink - Journal of neurotrauma, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Raised intrathecal pressure (ITP) after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a critically
important aspect of injury development that may result in significantly greater tissue damage …

Aquaporins in the spinal cord

MK Oklinski, MT Skowronski, A Skowronska… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins (AQPs) are water channel proteins robustly expressed in the central nervous
system (CNS). A number of previous studies described the cellular expression sites and …

Tachykinin: recent developments and novel roles in health and disease

T Onaga - Biomolecular concepts, 2014 - degruyter.com
Over 80 years has passed since the discovery of substance P (SP), and a variety of peptides
of the tachykinin (TK) family have been found and investigated. SP, neurokinin A (NKA), and …

N‐acetyl‐l‐tryptophan, but not N‐acetyl‐d‐tryptophan, rescues neuronal cell death in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

AC Sirianni, J Jiang, J Zeng, LL Mao… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by
progressive motor neuron loss. Evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction …

Treatment with the NK1 antagonist emend reduces blood brain barrier dysfunction and edema formation in an experimental model of brain tumors

E Harford-Wright, KM Lewis, MN Ghabriel, R Vink - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The neuropeptide substance P (SP) has been implicated in the disruption of the blood-brain
barrier (BBB) and development of cerebral edema in acute brain injury. Cerebral edema …

Dynamic changes in phrenic motor output following high cervical hemisection in the decerebrate rat

MGZ Ghali, V Marchenko - Experimental neurology, 2015 - Elsevier
Hemisection of the spinal cord at C 2 eliminates ipsilateral descending drive to the phrenic
nucleus and causes hemidiaphragmatic paralysis in rats. Phrenic nerve (PhN) or …