ArticleCells2021
Exercise Ameliorates Spinal Cord Injury by Changing DNA Methylation.
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- The effect of early mobilisation (< 14 days) on pathophysiological and functional outcomes in animals with induced spinal cord injury: a systematic review with meta-analysis.BMC neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Bibliometric and visual analysis of spinal cord injury-associated macrophages from 2002 to 2023.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Restoration of gamma-aminobutyric acid homeostasis: A novel approach to alleviating central nervous system injury-associated immunodepression syndrome.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Vascular integrity and immune infiltration in SCI pain: Can exercise tip the balance?Experimental neurology · 2026Article
- Comparative study of treadmill and swimming exercises on spinal regeneration and reactive astrocytes in the brain after spinal cord injury.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Combination of Treadmill Training and Inosine Enhance Nerve Regeneration and Functional Recovery After Mice Sciatic Nerve Transection.Journal of neuroscience research · 2025Article
- Ten-Eleven Translocation Family Proteins: Structure, Biological Functions, Diseases, and Targeted Therapy.MedComm · 2025Review
- The Role of Methylation Modification in Neural Injury and Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Identification of Potential Intervention Targets Involved in Prior Exercise that Attenuates Peripheral Neuropathic Pain by Integrating Transcriptome and Whole-genome Bisulfite Sequencing Analyses.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Body weight-supported treadmill training reduces glial scar overgrowth in SCI rats by decreasing the reactivity of astrocytes during the subacute phase.BMC neuroscience · 2025Article
- Physical exercise and epigenetic modifications in skeletal muscle, brain, and heart.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025Review
- Epigenetic remodeling: unveiling the potential endogenous mechanisms of exercise in alleviating neuropathic pain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Exercise therapy facilitates neural remodeling and functional recovery post-spinal cord injury via PKA/CREB signaling pathway modulation in rats.Burns & trauma · 2025Article
- Curcumin can improve spinal cord injury by inhibiting DNA methylation.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2024Article
- Repeated epidural delivery of Shinbaro2: effects on neural recovery, inflammation, and pain modulation in a rat model of lumbar spinal stenosis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Aerobic exercise alters DNA hydroxymethylation levels in an experimental rodent model of temporal lobe epilepsy.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2024Article
- The healing effects of moderate exercise on acetic acid-induced gastric ulcer in male rats.Gastroenterology and hepatology from bed to bench · 2024Article
- Inhibition of UTX/KDM6A improves recovery of spinal cord injury by attenuating BSCB permeability and macrophage infiltration through the MLCK/p-MLC pathway.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2023Article
- Reduced non-CpG methylation is a potential epigenetic target after spinal cord injury.Neural regeneration research · 2023Article
- The Influence of Exercise on Oxidative Stress after Spinal Cord Injury: A Narrative Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Exercise training is a traditional method to maximize remaining function in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), but the exact mechanism by which exercise promotes recovery after SCI has not been identified; whether exercise truly has a beneficial effect on SCI also remains unclear. Previously, we showed that epigenetic changes in the brain motor cortex occur after SCI and that a treatment leading to epigenetic modulation effectively promotes functional recovery after SCI. We aimed to determine how exercise induces functional improvement in rats subjected to SCI and whether epigenetic changes are engaged in the effects of exercise. A spinal cord contusion model was established in rats, which were then subjected to treadmill exercise for 12 weeks. We found that the size of the lesion cavity and the number of macrophages were decreased more in the exercise group than in the control group after 12 weeks of injury. Immunofluorescence and DNA dot blot analysis revealed that levels of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) in the brain motor cortex were increased after exercise. Accordingly, the expression of ten-eleven translocation (Tet) family members (Tet1, Tet2, and Tet3) in the brain motor cortex also elevated. However, no macrophage polarization was induced by exercise. Locomotor function, including Basso, Beattie, and Bresnahan (BBB) and ladder scores, also improved in the exercise group compared to the control group. We concluded that treadmill exercise facilitates functional recovery in rats with SCI, and mechanistically epigenetic changes in the brain motor cortex may contribute to exercise-induced improvements.
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