ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2019
Transcranial Current Stimulation Alters the Expression of Immune-Mediating Genes.
Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Preclinical Evidence for the Mechanisms of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders; A Systematic Review.Clinical EEG and neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
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- The Role of Neuroinflammation and Network Anomalies in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Review
- Understanding the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the neurovascular unit: a narrative review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Bilateral transcranial direct-current stimulation promotes migration of subventricular zone-derived neuroblasts toward ischemic brain.FASEB bioAdvances · 2023Article
- Regulation of Genes Related to Cognition after tDCS in an Intermittent Hypoxic Brain Injury Rat Model.Genes · 2022Article
- Using dual polarities of transcranial direct current stimulation in global cerebral ischemia and its following reperfusion period attenuates neuronal injury.Metabolic brain disease · 2022Article
- Non-invasive brain stimulation for osteoarthritis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- A Literature Mini-Review of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Transcranial Current Stimulation as a Tool of Neuromodulation of Cognitive Functions in Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Whole Blood Transcriptome Characterization of 3xTg-AD Mouse and Its Modulation by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Tinnitus and Brain Stimulation.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Article
- Update on the Use of Transcranial Electrical Brain Stimulation to Manage Acute and Chronic COVID-19 Symptoms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
Despite its extensive use in clinical studies, the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) remain to be elucidated. We previously described subacute effects of tDCS on immune- and stem cells in the rat brain. To investigate the more immediate effects of tDCS regulating those cellular responses, we treated rats with a single session of either anodal or cathodal tDCS, and analyzed the gene expression by microarray; sham-stimulated rats served as control. Anodal tDCS increased expression of several genes coding for the major histocompatibility complex I (MHC I), while cathodal tDCS increased the expression of the immunoregulatory protein osteopontin (OPN). We confirmed the effects of gene upregulation by immunohistochemistry at the protein level. Thus, our data show a novel mechanism for the actions of tDCS on immune- and inflammatory processes, providing a target for future therapeutic studies.
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