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ArticleFrontiers in neuroengineering2013

Microelectrode arrays in combination with in vitro models of spinal cord injury as tools to investigate pathological changes in network activity: facts and promises.

Miranda Mladinic, Andrea Nistri

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Article in Frontiers in neuroengineering, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A Diagnostic Circuit for Crosstalk Detection in Microelectrode Arrays.International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering : [proceedings]. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miranda MladinicNeuroscience Department, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Trieste, Italy ; Spinal Person Injury Neurorehabilitation Applied Laboratory, Istituto di Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione Udine, Italy ; Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka Rijeka, Croatia.
Andrea Nistri
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) represent an important tool to study the basic characteristics of spinal networks that control locomotion in physiological conditions. Fundamental properties of this neuronal rhythmicity like burst origin, propagation, coordination, and resilience can, thus, be investigated at multiple sites within a certain spinal topography and neighboring circuits. A novel challenge will be to apply this technology to unveil the mechanisms underlying pathological processes evoked by spinal cord injury (SCI). To achieve this goal, it is necessary to fully identify spinal networks that make up the locomotor central pattern generator (CPG) and to understand their operational rules. In this review, the use of isolated spinal cord preparations from rodents, or organotypic spinal slice cultures is discussed to study rhythmic activity. In particular, this review surveys our recently developed in vitro models of SCI by evoking excitotoxic (or even hypoxic/dysmetabolic) damage to spinal networks and assessing the impact on rhythmic activity and cell survival. These pathological processes which evolve via different cell death mechanisms are discussed as a paradigm to apply MEA recording for detailed mapping of the functional damage and its time-dependent evolution.

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central pattern generatorexcitotoxicityin vitro preparationlocomotionmicroelectrode arraysmotoneuronorganotypic slicesspinal cord network

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PMID23459694
PMCPMC3586932
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