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ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2018

Effect evaluation of methylprednisolone plus mitochondrial division inhibitor-1 on spinal cord injury rats.

Xu-Gui Chen, Li-Hua Chen, Ru-Xiang Xu, Hong-Tian Zhang

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Article in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Xu-Gui ChenThe Affiliated Bayi Brain Hospital, the Army General Hospital PLA, No. 5, Nanmencang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100700, China.
Li-Hua ChenThe Affiliated Bayi Brain Hospital, the Army General Hospital PLA, No. 5, Nanmencang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100700, China.
Ru-Xiang XuThe Affiliated Bayi Brain Hospital, the Army General Hospital PLA, No. 5, Nanmencang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100700, China.
Hong-Tian ZhangThe Affiliated Bayi Brain Hospital, the Army General Hospital PLA, No. 5, Nanmencang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100700, China. htzhang821@163.com.
The Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA · CN

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purposeTo investigate the combination effect of methylprednisolone (MP) and mitochondrial division inhibitor-1 (Mdivi-1) on the neurological function recovery of rat spinal cord injury (SCI) model.

methodsThe weight-drop method was used to establish the rat SCI model; then, rats were randomized into sham group, SCI group, MP group, Mdivi-1 group and MP+Mdivi-1 group. Motor function scores were quantified to evaluate locomotor ability; HE staining was used to assess spinal cord histopathology; tissue water content, oxidative stress, tissue mitochondrial function, neurons apoptosis, and apoptosis-related protein expression were detected.

resultsFrom the third day after SCI, BBB score of the MP+Mdivi-1 group was obviously higher than the other experimental groups (p < 0.05). Compared with the SCI group, tissue water content of the Mdivi-1 group and MP+Mdivi-1 group reduced obviously (p < 0.05), mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) level and ATP content in the Mdivi-1 group and MP+Mdivi-1 group were both higher (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, three kinds of treatment all reduced apoptosis significantly, while MP plus Mdivi-1 exhibited the best inhibition effect on apoptosis (p < 0.05). The expression levels of Drp1, cytochrome c, and caspase-3 were all upregulated obviously; Mdivi-1 could inhibit Drp1 upregulation induced by SCI; for the upregulation of cytochrome c and caspase-3, the inhibition effect of Mdivi-1 approached MP. When MP combined with Mdivi-1, there was the best inhibition effect.

conclusionsMP combined with Mdivi-1 may produce better neurological function recovery, through improving functional status of mitochondria and inhibiting lipid peroxidation in damaged tissue of SCI rats, and thus alleviating apoptosis.

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AnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug Therapy, CombinationMaleMethylprednisoloneMitochondriaOxidative StressQuinazolinonesRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRecovery of FunctionSpinal Cord Injuries3-(2,4-dichloro-5-methoxyphenyl)-2-sulfanyl-4(3H)-quinazolinoneAnti-Inflammatory AgentsMethylprednisoloneQuinazolinonesMethylprednisoloneMitochondrial division inhibitor-1Neurological functionSpinal cord injury

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