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ArticleNeural regeneration research2015

Leuprolide acetate induces structural and functional recovery of injured spinal cord in rats.

Carmen Díaz Galindo, Beatriz Gómez-González, Eva Salinas, Denisse Calderón-Vallejo, Irma Hernández-Jasso, Eduardo Bautista, J Luis Quintanar

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Article in Neural regeneration research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Carmen Díaz GalindoLaboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.
Beatriz Gómez-GonzálezArea of Neuroscience, Department of Reproductive Biology, CBS, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, México.
Eva SalinasLaboratory of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.
Denisse Calderón-VallejoLaboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.
Irma Hernández-JassoLaboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.
Eduardo BautistaLaboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.
J Luis QuintanarLaboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México.ORCID 0000-0003-1257-7723
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes · MXUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana · MX

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and its synthetic analog leuprolide acetate, a GnRH agonist, have neurotrophic properties. This study was designed to determine whether administration of leuprolide acetate can improve locomotor behavior, gait, micturition reflex, spinal cord morphology and the amount of microglia in the lesion epicenter after spinal cord injury in rats. Rats with spinal cord compression injury were administered leuprolide acetate or saline solution for 5 weeks. At the 5(th) week, leuprolide acetate-treated rats showed locomotor activity recovery by 38%, had improvement in kinematic gait and exhibited voiding reflex recovery by 60%, as compared with the 1(st) week. By contrast, saline solution-treated rats showed locomotor activity recovery only by 7%, but voiding reflex did not recover. More importantly, leuprolide acetate treatment reduced microglial immunological reaction and induced a trend towards greater area of white and gray matter in the spinal cord. Therefore, leuprolide acetate has great potential to repair spinal cord injury.

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gaitgonadotropin-releasing hormoneinflammationleuprolide acetatemicrogliamicturition reflexnerve regenerationneural regenerationneurotrophic factorspinal cord injury

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PMID26807118
PMCPMC4705795
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