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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2019

Longitudinal monitoring of mesoscopic cortical activity in a mouse model of microinfarcts reveals dissociations with behavioral and motor function.

Matilde Balbi, Matthieu P Vanni, Max J Vega, Gergely Silasi, Yuki Sekino, Jamie D Boyd, Jeffrey M LeDue, Timothy H Murphy

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05725694 (Acute Ischaemic STROKE), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05725694 unknown statusnot on this map

Acute Ischaemic STROKE: From LABoratory to(2) the Patient's BED. Retrospective Study of Blood Biomarkers and Neuroimaging as Predictors of Cerebral Edema, Extension of Ischemic Injury and Functional Outcome

TypeobservationalSponsorIstituto di Neuroscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheRan2015 to 2023Enrolled200ConditionsAcute Ischemic Stroke, Reperfusion Injury, Cerebral Edema, Hemorrhagic Transformation Due to Acute Stroke
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Non-classical monocytes promote neurovascular repair in cerebral small vessel disease associated with microinfarctions via CX3CR1.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matilde Balbi1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Matthieu P Vanni1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Max J Vega2 Department of Psychology, Motivated Cognition Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Gergely Silasi1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1036-1304
Yuki Sekino1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jamie D Boyd1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jeffrey M LeDue1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Timothy H Murphy1 Department of Psychiatry, Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

CIHR FDN-143209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small vessel disease is characterized by sporadic obstruction of small vessels leading to neuronal cell death. These microinfarcts often escape detection by conventional magnetic resonance imaging and are identified only upon postmortem examination. Our work explores a brain-wide microinfarct model in awake head-fixed mice, where occlusions of small penetrating arterioles are reproduced by endovascular injection of fluorescent microspheres. Mesoscopic functional connectivity was mapped longitudinally in awake GCaMP6 mice using genetically encoded calcium indicators for transcranial wide-field calcium imaging. Microsphere occlusions were quantified and changes in cerebral blood flow were measured with laser speckle imaging. The neurodeficit score in microinfarct mice was significantly higher than in sham, indicating impairment in motor function. The novel object recognition test showed a reduction in the discrimination index in microinfarct mice compared to sham. Graph-theoretic analysis of functional connectivity did not reveal significant differences in functional connectivity between sham and microinfarct mice. While behavioral tasks revealed impairments following microinfarct induction, the absence of measurable functional alterations in cortical activity has a less straightforward interpretation. The behavioral alterations produced by this model are consistent with alterations observed in human patients suffering from microinfarcts and support the validity of microsphere injection as a microinfarct model.

Indexed as

Cerebral InfarctionCerebrovascular DisordersDisease Models, AnimalAnimalsBehavior, AnimalCerebral CortexCerebrovascular CirculationFemaleMaleMiceMice, TransgenicMicrospheresMotor DisordersAwakecalcium imagingmesoscalemicroinfarctssmall vessel disease

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PMID29521138
PMCPMC6681536
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