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2. Buspirone attenuates synaptic activation of hippocampal pyramidal cells
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Mauk, MD, primary, Peroutka, SJ, additional, and Kocsis, JD, additional
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- 1988
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3. BDNF-hypersecreting human mesenchymal stem cells promote functional recovery, axonal sprouting, and protection of corticospinal neurons after spinal cord injury.
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Sasaki M, Radtke C, Tan AM, Zhao P, Hamada H, Houkin K, Honmou O, and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor genetics, Cells, Cultured, Cytoprotection genetics, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Gene Expression physiology, Genetic Vectors pharmacology, Genetic Vectors therapeutic use, Growth Cones metabolism, Growth Cones ultrastructure, Humans, Neuronal Plasticity physiology, Pyramidal Tracts cytology, Pyramidal Tracts physiology, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Recovery of Function physiology, Spinal Cord Injuries metabolism, Spinal Cord Injuries physiopathology, Transfection methods, Transplantation, Heterologous methods, Treatment Outcome, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor metabolism, Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation methods, Nerve Regeneration physiology, Pyramidal Tracts surgery, Spinal Cord Injuries surgery
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Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from bone marrow has been shown to improve functional outcome in spinal cord injury (SCI). We transplanted MSCs derived from human bone marrow (hMSCs) to study their potential therapeutic effect in SCI in the rat. In addition to hMSCs, we used gene-modified hMSCs to secrete brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF-hMSCs). After a dorsal transection lesion was induced at T9, cells were microinjected on each side of the transection site. Fluorogold (FG) was injected into the epicenter of the lesion cavity to identify transected corticospinal tract (CST) neurons. At 5 weeks after transplantation, the animals were perfused. Locomotor recovery improvement was observed for the BDNF-hMSC group, but not in the hMSC group. Structurally there was increased sprouting of injured corticospinal tract and serotonergic projections after hMSC and BDNF-hMSC transplantation. Moreover, an increased number of serotonergic fibers was observed in spinal gray matter including the ventral horn at and below the level of the lesion, indicating increased innervation in the terminal regions of a descending projection important for locomotion. Stereological quantification was performed on the brains to determine neuronal density in primary motor (M1) cortex. The number of FG backfilled cells demonstrated an increased cell survival of CST neurons in M1 cortex in both the hMSC and BDNF-hMSC groups at 5 weeks, but the increase for the BDNF-hMSC group was greater. These results indicate that transplantation of hMSCs hypersecreting BDNF results in structural changes in brain and spinal cord, which are associated with improved functional outcome in acute SCI.
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- 2009
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4. Molecular reconstruction of nodes of Ranvier after remyelination by transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells in the demyelinated spinal cord.
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Sasaki M, Black JA, Lankford KL, Tokuno HA, Waxman SG, and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Axons physiology, Demyelinating Diseases physiopathology, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Myelin Sheath pathology, Olfactory Bulb physiology, Olfactory Bulb physiopathology, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Spinal Cord physiopathology, Myelin Sheath physiology, Ranvier's Nodes physiology, Ranvier's Nodes ultrastructure, Smell physiology, Spinal Cord physiology
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Myelin-forming glial cells transplanted into the demyelinated spinal cord can form compact myelin and improve conduction properties. However, little is known of the expression and organization of voltage-gated ion channels in the remyelinated central axons or whether the exogenous cells provide appropriate signaling for the maturation of nodes of Ranvier. Here, we transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells from green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing donor rats [GFP-olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs)] into a region of spinal cord demyelination and found extensive remyelination, which included the development of mature nodal, paranodal, and juxtaparanodal domains, as assessed by ultrastructural, immunocytochemical, and electrophysiological analyses. In remyelinated axons, Nav1.6 was clustered at nodes, whereas Kv1.2 was aggregated in juxtaparanodal regions, recapitulating the distribution of these channels within mature nodes of uninjured axons. Moreover, the recruitment of Nav and Kv channels to specific membrane domains at remyelinated nodes persisted for at least 8 weeks after GFP-OEC transplantation. In vivo electrophysiological recordings demonstrated enhanced conduction along the GFP-OEC-remyelinated axons. These findings indicate that, in addition to forming myelin, engrafted GFP-OECs provide an environment that supports the development and maturation of nodes of Ranvier and the restoration of impulse conduction in central demyelinated axons.
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- 2006
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5. Multiple interacting sites of ectopic spike electrogenesis in primary sensory neurons.
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Amir R, Kocsis JD, and Devor M
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- Animals, Biological Clocks physiology, Electricity, In Vitro Techniques, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Time Factors, Action Potentials physiology, Ganglia, Spinal physiology, Neurons, Afferent physiology
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Ectopic discharge generated in injured afferent axons and cell somata in vivo contributes significantly to chronic neuropathic dysesthesia and pain after nerve trauma. Progress has been made toward understanding the processes responsible for this discharge using a preparation consisting of whole excised dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) with the cut nerve attached. In the in vitro preparation, however, spike activity originates in the DRG cell soma but rarely in the axon. We have now overcome this impediment to understanding the overall electrogenic processes in soma and axon, including the resulting discharge patterns, by modifying the bath medium in which recordings are made. At both sites, bursts can be triggered by subthreshold oscillations, a phasic stimulus, or spikes arising elsewhere in the neuron. In the soma, once triggered, bursts are maintained by depolarizing afterpotentials, whereas in the axon, an additional process also plays a role, delayed depolarizing potentials. This alternative process appears to be involved in "clock-like" bursting, a discharge pattern much more common in axons than somata. Ectopic spikes arise alternatively in the soma, the injured axon end (neuroma), and the region of the axonal T-junction. Discharge sequences, and even individual multiplet bursts, may be a mosaic of action potentials that originate at these alternative electrogenic sites within the neuron. Correspondingly, discharge generated at these alternative sites may interact, explaining the sometimes-complex firing patterns observed in vivo.
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- 2005
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6. Identified olfactory ensheathing cells transplanted into the transected dorsal funiculus bridge the lesion and form myelin.
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Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Zemedkun M, and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Animals, Genetically Modified, Axons pathology, Axons physiology, Female, Green Fluorescent Proteins biosynthesis, Locomotion physiology, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Myelin Sheath pathology, Neuroglia transplantation, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Recombinant Proteins biosynthesis, Spinal Cord physiopathology, Spinal Cord Injuries pathology, Spinal Cord Injuries therapy, Myelin Sheath physiology, Neuroglia physiology, Olfactory Bulb cytology, Spinal Cord pathology, Spinal Cord Injuries physiopathology
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Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) prepared from the olfactory bulbs of adult transgenic Sprague Dawley (SD) rats expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) were transplanted into a dorsal spinal cord transection lesion of SD rats. Five weeks after transplantation, the cells survived within the lesion zone and oriented longitudinally along axons that bridged the transection site. Although the highest density of GFP cells was within the lesion zone, some cells distributed longitudinally outside of the lesion area. Myelinated axons spanning the lesion were observed in discrete bundles encapsulated by a cellular element. Electron micrographs of spinal cords immunostained with an anti-GFP antibody indicated that a majority of the peripheral-like myelinated axons were derived from donor OECs. Open-field locomotor behavior was significantly improved in the OEC transplantation group. Thus, transplanted OECs derived from the adult olfactory bulb can survive and orient longitudinally across a spinal cord transection site and form myelin. This pattern of repair is associated with improved locomotion.
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- 2004
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7. Remyelination of the rat spinal cord by transplantation of identified bone marrow stromal cells.
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Akiyama Y, Radtke C, and Kocsis JD
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- Action Potentials, Animals, Axons pathology, Axons physiology, Axons ultrastructure, Bone Marrow Cells cytology, Bone Marrow Cells metabolism, Cells, Cultured, Collagen Type I biosynthesis, Demyelinating Diseases pathology, Demyelinating Diseases physiopathology, Fibronectins biosynthesis, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Hyaluronan Receptors biosynthesis, Immunohistochemistry, Immunosuppression Therapy, Luminescent Proteins biosynthesis, Luminescent Proteins genetics, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Microinjections, Neural Conduction, Rats, Spinal Cord cytology, Spinal Cord pathology, Stromal Cells cytology, Stromal Cells metabolism, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Demyelinating Diseases therapy, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation methods, Myelin Sheath metabolism, Spinal Cord physiopathology, Stromal Cells transplantation
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Bone marrow contains a population of stem-like cells that can differentiate into neurons or glia. Stromal cells from green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing mice were isolated by initial separation on a density gradient and then cultured as adherent cells on plastic that proliferated in culture to confluency with a typical flattened elongative morphology. The large majority of the isolated stromal cells were GFP expressing and immunopositive for collagen type I, fibronectin, and CD44. Transplantation of these cells by direct microinjection into the demyelinated spinal cord of the immunosuppressed rat resulted in remyelination. The remyelinated axons showed characteristics of both central and peripheral myelination as observed by electron microscopy; conduction velocity of the axons was improved. GFP-positive cells and myelin profiles were observed in the remyelinated spinal cord region, indicating that the donor-isolated stromal cells were responsible for the formation of the new myelin. The GFP-positive cells were colocalized with myelin basic protein-positive and P0-positive cellular elements. These findings indicate that cells contained within the stromal cell fraction of the mononuclear cell layer of bone marrow can form functional myelin during transplantation into demyelinated spinal cord.
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- 2002
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8. Transplantation of cryopreserved adult human Schwann cells enhances axonal conduction in demyelinated spinal cord.
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Kohama I, Lankford KL, Preiningerova J, White FA, Vollmer TL, and Kocsis JD
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- Action Potentials, Animals, Cell Transplantation, Cryopreservation, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Immunosuppression Therapy, In Vitro Techniques, Multiple Sclerosis pathology, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Schwann Cells cytology, Spinal Cord pathology, Sural Nerve cytology, Sural Nerve surgery, Transplantation, Heterologous, Treatment Outcome, Axons physiology, Multiple Sclerosis therapy, Neural Conduction physiology, Schwann Cells transplantation, Spinal Cord surgery
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Schwann cells derived from human sural nerve may provide a valuable source of tissue for a cell-based therapy in multiple sclerosis. However, it is essential to show that transplanted human Schwann cells can remyelinate axons in adult CNS and improve axonal conduction. Sections of sural nerve were removed from amputated legs of patients with vascular disease or diabetes, and Schwann cells were isolated and cryopreserved. Suspensions of reconstituted cells were transplanted into the X-irradiation/ethidium bromide lesioned dorsal columns of immunosuppressed Wistar rat. After 3-5 weeks of extensive remyelination, a typical Schwann cell pattern was observed in the lesion zone. Many cells in the lesion were immunopositive for an anti-human nuclei monoclonal antibody. The dorsal columns were removed and maintained in an in vitro recording chamber; the conduction properties were studied using field potential and intra-axonal recording techniques. The transplanted dorsal columns displayed improved conduction velocity and frequency-response properties, and action potentials conducted over a greater distance into the lesion, suggesting that conduction block was overcome. These data support the conclusion that transplantation of human Schwann cells results in functional remyelination of a dorsal column lesion.
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- 2001
9. Synaptic reorganization in the substantia gelatinosa after peripheral nerve neuroma formation: aberrant innervation of lamina II neurons by Abeta afferents.
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Kohama I, Ishikawa K, and Kocsis JD
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- Action Potentials physiology, Afferent Pathways pathology, Afferent Pathways physiology, Afferent Pathways physiopathology, Animals, Axotomy, Electric Stimulation, Female, Neural Conduction, Posterior Horn Cells pathology, Posterior Horn Cells ultrastructure, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Spinal Nerve Roots physiology, Spinal Nerve Roots physiopathology, Substantia Gelatinosa pathology, Substantia Gelatinosa physiopathology, Synapses pathology, Synapses ultrastructure, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials physiology, Neuroma pathology, Neuroma physiopathology, Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms pathology, Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms physiopathology, Posterior Horn Cells physiology, Substantia Gelatinosa physiology, Synapses physiology
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Intracellular recording and extracellular field potential (FP) recordings were obtained from spinal cord dorsal horn neurons (laminae I-IV) in a rat transverse slice preparation with attached dorsal roots. To study changes in synaptic inputs after neuroma formation, the sciatic nerve was sectioned and ligated 3 weeks before in vitro electrophysiological analysis. Horseradish peroxidase labeling of dorsal root axons indicated that Abeta fibers sprouted into laminae I-II from deeper laminae after sciatic nerve section. FP recordings from dorsal horns of normal spinal cord slices revealed long-latency synaptic responses in lamina II and short-latency responses in lamina III. The latencies of synaptic FPs recorded in lamina II of the dorsal horn after sciatic nerve section were reduced. The majority of monosynaptic EPSPs recorded with intracellular microelectrodes from lamina II neurons in control slices were elicited by high-threshold nerve stimulation, whereas the majority of monosynaptic EPSPs recorded in lamina III were elicited by low-threshold nerve stimulation. After sciatic nerve section, 31 of 57 (54%) EPSPs recorded in lamina II were elicited by low-threshold stimulation. The majority of low-threshold EPSPs in lamina II neurons after axotomy displayed properties similar to low-threshold EPSPs in lamina III of control slices. These results indicate that reoccupation of lamina II synapses by sprouting Abeta fibers normally terminating in lamina III occurs after sciatic nerve neuroma formation. Furthermore, these observations indicate that the lamina II neurons receive inappropriate sensory information from low-threshold mechanoreceptor after sciatic nerve neuroma formation.
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- 2000
10. Transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells remyelinate and enhance axonal conduction in the demyelinated dorsal columns of the rat spinal cord.
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Imaizumi T, Lankford KL, Waxman SG, Greer CA, and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Electrophysiology, Female, Neurons physiology, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Axons physiology, Myelin Sheath physiology, Neural Conduction physiology, Neurons transplantation, Olfactory Nerve cytology, Spinal Cord physiology
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Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which have properties of both astrocytes and Schwann cells, can remyelinate axons with a Schwann cell-like pattern of myelin. In this study the pattern and extent of remyelination and the electrophysiological properties of dorsal column axons were characterized after transplantation of OECs into a demyelinated rat spinal cord lesion. Dorsal columns of adult rat spinal cords were demyelinated by x-ray irradiation and focal injections of ethidium bromide. Cell suspensions of acutely dissociated OECs from neonatal rats were injected into the lesion 6 d after x-ray irradiation. At 21-25 d after transplantation of OECs, the spinal cords were maintained in an in vitro recording chamber to study the conduction properties of the axons. The remyelinated axons displayed improved conduction velocity and frequency-response properties, and action potentials were conducted a greater distance into the lesion, suggesting that conduction block was overcome. Quantitative histological analysis revealed remyelinated axons near and remote from the cell injection site, indicating extensive migration of OECs within the lesion. These data support the conclusion that transplantation of neonatal OECs results in quantitatively extensive and functional remyelination of demyelinated dorsal column axons.
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- 1998
11. Peripheral axotomy induces long-term c-Jun amino-terminal kinase-1 activation and activator protein-1 binding activity by c-Jun and junD in adult rat dorsal root ganglia In vivo.
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Kenney AM and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Axons physiology, Female, Ganglia, Spinal cytology, JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Nerve Regeneration physiology, Neurons metabolism, Phosphorylation, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Time Factors, Axotomy, Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases physiology, Ganglia, Spinal metabolism, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun metabolism, Transcription Factor AP-1 metabolism
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One of the earliest documented molecular events after sciatic nerve injury in adult rats is the rapid, long-term upregulation of the immediate early gene transcription factor c-Jun mRNA and protein in lumbar dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, suggesting that c-Jun may regulate genes that are important both in the early post-injury period and during later peripheral axonal regeneration. However, neither the mechanism through which c-Jun protein is increased nor the level of its post-injury transcriptional activity in axotomized DRGs has been characterized. To determine whether transcriptional activation of c-Jun occurs in response to nerve injury in vivo and is associated with axonal regeneration, we have assayed axotomized adult rat DRGs for evidence of jun kinase activation, c-Jun phosphorylation, and activator protein-1 (AP-1) binding. We report that sciatic nerve transection resulted in chronic activation of c-Jun amino-terminal kinase-1 (JNK) in L4/L5 DRGs concomitant with c-Jun amino-terminal phosphorylation in neurons, and lasting AP-1 binding activity, with both c-Jun and JunD participating in DNA binding complexes. The timing of JNK activation was dependent on the distance of the axotomy site from the DRGs, suggesting the requirement for a retrograde transport-mediated signal. AP-1 binding and c-Jun protein returned to basal levels in DRGs as peripheral regeneration was completed but remained elevated in the case of chronic sprouting, indicating that c-Jun may regulate target genes that are involved in axonal outgrowth.
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- 1998
12. Restoration of normal conduction properties in demyelinated spinal cord axons in the adult rat by transplantation of exogenous Schwann cells.
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Honmou O, Felts PA, Waxman SG, and Kocsis JD
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- Animals, Cell Transplantation, Microscopy, Electron, Rats, Schwann Cells diagnostic imaging, Schwann Cells transplantation, Spinal Cord transplantation, Ultrasonography, Axons physiology, Demyelinating Diseases physiopathology, Neural Conduction physiology, Schwann Cells physiology, Spinal Cord physiopathology
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Although remyelination of demyelinated CNS axons is known to occur after transplantation of exogenous glial cells, previous studies have not determined whether cell transplantation can restore the conduction properties of demyelinated axons in the adult CNS. To examine this issue, the dorsal columns of the adult rat spinal cord were demyelinated by x-irradiation and intraspinal injections of ethidium bromide. Cell suspensions of cultured astrocytes and Schwann cells derived from neonatal rats transfected with the (beta-galactosidase) reporter gene were injected into the glial-free lesion site. After 3-4 weeks nearly all of the demyelinated axons were remyelinated by the transplanted Schwann cells. The dorsal columns were removed and maintained in an in vitro recording chamber; conduction properties were studied using field potential and intra-axonal recording techniques. The demyelinated axons exhibited conduction slowing and block, and a reduction in their ability to follow high-frequency stimulation. Axons remyelinated by transplantation of cultured Schwann cells exhibited restoration of conduction through the lesion, with reestablishment of normal conduction velocity. The axons remyelinated after transplantation showed enhanced impulse recovery to paired-pulse stimulation and greater frequency-following capability as compared with both demyelinated and control axons. These results demonstrate the functional repair of demyelinated axons in the adult CNS by transplantation of cultured myelin-forming cells from the peripheral nervous system in combination with astrocytes.
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- 1996
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