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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018

Amiloride Promotes Oligodendrocyte Survival and Remyelination after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.

Takeshi Imai, Hiroyuki Katoh, Kaori Suyama, Masahiro Kuroiwa, Sho Yanagisawa, Masahiko Watanabe

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Takeshi ImaiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. tokai-takeshi@tokai-u.jp.
Hiroyuki KatohDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. hero@tokai-u.jp.
Kaori SuyamaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. suyama@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp.
Masahiro KuroiwaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. kuroiwa@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp.
Sho YanagisawaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. syngsw@tsc.u-tokai.ac.jp.
Masahiko WatanabeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science Tokai University School of Medicine 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. masahiko@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp.
Tokai University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After spinal cord injury (SCI), secondary injury results in an expanding area of glial cell apoptosis. Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) actively proliferate after SCI, but many of these cells undergo apoptosis. One of the factors that exacerbates secondary injury is endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. In this study, we tested the effects of amiloride treatment on the fate of OPCs during secondary injury in rats. Amiloride is an FDA-approved diuretic for treating hypertension, which in rats enhances ER stress response and suppresses the apoptosis of glial cells after SCI. A severe contusive SCI was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats using an infinite horizon (IH)-impactor (200 kdyne). Beginning 24 h after SCI, 10 mg/kg of amiloride or phosphate buffered saline (PBS) was intraperitoneally administered daily for a period of 14 days. At 7, 14, 28, and 56 days after SCI, animals were subsequently euthanized in order to analyze the injured spinal cord. We labeled proliferating OPCs and demonstrated that amiloride treatment led to greater numbers of OPCs and oligodendrocytes in the injured spinal cord. Increased myelin basic protein (MBP) expression levels were observed, suggesting that increased numbers of mature oligodendrocytes led to improved remyelination, significantly improving motor function recovery.

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amilorideoligodendrocyte precursor cellspinal cord injury

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PMID29510579
PMCPMC5867572
OpenAlexW2793260786

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