ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity2016
Inflammation is increased with anxiety- and depression-like signs in a rat model of spinal cord injury.
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- Role of Supraspinal Neuroinflammation in Chronic Pain After Experimental Spinal Cord Injury-A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
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- Differential microglial dynamics and neuroinflammation underlying neuropathic pain in the central nervous system: comparative insights from spinal cord injury and compressive myelopathy models.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2026Article
- Limited effects of the REV-ERB agonist SR9009 after mouse spinal cord contusion: Reduced acute pathology with unaffected functional recovery and chronic white matter loss.Neuroscience letters · 2026Article
- Regulation of Nrf2/GPX4 Signaling Pathway by Hyperbaric Oxygen Protects Against Depressive Behavior and Cognitive Impairment in a Spinal Cord Injury Rat Model.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Repeated Administrations of Polyphenolic Extracts Prevent Chronic Reflexive and Non-Reflexive Neuropathic Pain Responses by Modulating Gliosis and CCL2-CCR2/CX3CL1-CX3CR1 Signaling in Spinal Cord-Injured Female Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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- Chronic Stress-Associated Depressive Disorders: The Impact of HPA Axis Dysregulation and Neuroinflammation on the Hippocampus-A Mini Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Association of dust exposure with anxiety and depression in the occupational population: The important role of sleep duration.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Nfkbia-driven neuroinflammatory pathways mediate depression following spinal cord injury.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Article
- Gut-Spinal Cord Axis in Spinal Cord Injury: Bidirectional Inflammatory Mechanisms and Microbiota-Targeted Therapeutic Strategies.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Review
- No Beneficial Effects of the Alfasigma VSL#3 Probiotic Treatment After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Old age alters inflammation and autophagy signaling in the brain, leading to exacerbated neurological outcomes after spinal cord injury in male mice.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- A moderate spinal contusion injury in rats alters bone turnover both below and above the level of injury with sex-based differences apparent in long-term recovery.Bone reports · 2024Article
- Effects of dim light at night in C57BL/6 J mice on recovery after spinal cord injury.Experimental neurology · 2024Article
- Sexually dimorphic extracellular vesicle responses after chronic spinal cord injury are associated with neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the aged brain.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2023Article
- Spinal cord injury in mice amplifies anxiety: A novel light-heat conflict test exposes increased salience of anxiety over heat.Experimental neurology · 2023Article
- Connexin 43: An Interface Connecting Neuroinflammation to Depression.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Transient Reflexive Pain Responses and Chronic Affective Nonreflexive Pain Responses Associated with Neuroinflammation Processes in Both Spinal and Supraspinal Structures in Spinal Cord-Injured Female Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to increased anxiety and depression in as many as 60% of patients. Yet, despite extensive clinical research focused on understanding the variables influencing psychological well-being following SCI, risk factors that decrease it remain unclear. We hypothesized that excitation of the immune system, inherent to SCI, may contribute to the decrease in psychological well-being. To test this hypothesis, we used a battery of established behavioral tests to assess depression and anxiety in spinally contused rats. The behavioral tests, and subsequent statistical analyses, revealed three cohorts of subjects that displayed behavioral characteristics of (1) depression, (2) depression and anxiety, or (3) no signs of decreased psychological well-being. Subsequent molecular analyses demonstrated that the psychological cohorts differed not only in behavioral symptoms, but also in peripheral (serum) and central (hippocampi and spinal cord) levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Subjects exhibiting a purely depression-like profile showed higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines peripherally, whereas subjects exhibiting a depression- and anxiety-like profile showed higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines centrally (hippocampi and spinal cord). These changes in inflammation were not associated with injury severity; suggesting that the association between inflammation and the expression of behaviors characteristic of decreased psychological well-being was not confounded by differential impairments in motor ability. These data support the hypothesis that inflammatory changes are associated with decreased psychological well-being following SCI.
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