ArticleNeuroscience2016
Repetitive acute intermittent hypoxia increases growth/neurotrophic factor expression in non-respiratory motor neurons.
Article in Neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03071393 (Acute Intermittent Hypoxia to Enhance Motor Function After Spinal Cord Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Acute Intermittent Hypoxia to Enhance Motor Function After Spinal Cord Injury
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels and obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2023Pooled it
- Brain-Derived neurotrophic factor and inflammatory biomarkers are unaffected by acute and chronic intermittent hypoxic-hyperoxic exposure in geriatric patients: a randomized controlled trial.Annals of medicine · 2024Trial
- Enhanced motor learning and motor savings after acute intermittent hypoxia are associated with a reduction in metabolic cost.The Journal of physiology · 2024Trial
- Controlled Hypoxia Acutely Prevents Physical Inactivity-Induced Peripheral BDNF Decline.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Trial
- CoQ10-Supported HIIT Modulates Skeletal Muscle and Hippocampal Biomarkers in Rats: A Randomized, Repeated-Measures, Post-Test Controlled Design.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Safety and potential benefits of acute intermittent hypoxia in people with chronic traumatic brain injury.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Plasticity induced loss of apnea alarm through repeated apneas: A proposed mechanism for respiratory sudden death.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2025Review
- Antipyretic Mechanism of Bai Hu Tang on LPS-Induced Fever in Rat: A Network Pharmacology and Metabolomics Analysis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intermittent hypoxia-induced enhancements in corticospinal excitability predict gains in motor learning and metabolic efficiency.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intermittent hypoxia enhances voluntary activation and reduces performance fatigability during repeated lower limb contractions.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Randomized controlled trial of intermittent hypoxia in Parkinson's disease: study rationale and protocol.BMC neurology · 2024Article
- Intermittent Hypoxia-Induced Enhancements in Corticospinal Excitability Predict Gains in Motor Learning and Metabolic Efficiency.Research square · 2024Article
- Effects and Mechanisms of Exercise on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Levels and Clinical Outcomes in People with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Neuroprotective Effects of Moderate Hypoxia: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Dose-dependent phosphorylation of endogenous Tau by intermittent hypoxia in rat brain.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Article
- Therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia: A translational roadmap for spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disease.Experimental neurology · 2022Review
- How Are Adenosine and Adenosine ABiomedicines · 2021Review
- Role of DNA Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein MeCP2 in Rett Syndrome Pathobiology and Mechanism of Disease.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Respiratory Training and Plasticity After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Review
- Acute intermittent hypoxia boosts spinal plasticity in humans with tetraplegia.Experimental neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Repetitive acute intermittent hypoxia (rAIH) increases growth/trophic factor expression in respiratory motor neurons, thereby eliciting spinal respiratory motor plasticity and/or neuroprotection. Here we demonstrate that rAIH effects are not unique to respiratory motor neurons, but are also expressed in non-respiratory, spinal alpha motor neurons and upper motor neurons of the motor cortex. In specific, we used immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence to assess growth/trophic factor protein expression in spinal sections from rats exposed to AIH three times per week for 10weeks (3×wAIH). 3×wAIH increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), its high-affinity receptor, tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB), and phosphorylated TrkB (pTrkB) immunoreactivity in putative alpha motor neurons of spinal cervical 7 (C7) and lumbar 3 (L3) segments, as well as in upper motor neurons of the primary motor cortex (M1). 3×wAIH also increased immunoreactivity of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), the high-affinity VEGFA receptor (VEGFR-2) and an important VEGF gene regulator, hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α). Thus, rAIH effects on growth/trophic factors are characteristic of non-respiratory as well as respiratory motor neurons. rAIH may be a useful tool in the treatment of disorders causing paralysis, such as spinal injury and motor neuron disease, as a pretreatment to enhance motor neuron survival during disease, or as preconditioning for cell-transplant therapies.
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