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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2024

Assessing Functional Recovery of Eupneic Diaphragm Activity Following Unilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.

Obaid U Khurram, Matthew J Fogarty, Wen-Zhi Zhan, Carlos B Mantilla, Gary C Sieck

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. An update on spinal cord injury and diaphragm neuromotor control.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Obaid U KhurramDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic.
Matthew J FogartyDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic.
Wen-Zhi ZhanDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic.
Carlos B MantillaDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic.
Gary C SieckDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic; sieck.gary@mayo.edu.

Funding

Enhancing Respiratory Motor Function after Spinal Cord InjuryR01HL146114 · NHLBI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Carlos B Mantilla, Gary C. Sieck · 2019 to 2026
$5.4M
Ameliorating Synaptic and Mitochondrial Dysfunctions of the Respiratory Neuromotor System in Alzheimer's DiseaseR56HL166204 · NHLBI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI FOGARTY, MATTHEW · 2023 to 2023
$532k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146114NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL166204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following cSCI, activation of the DIAm can be impacted depending on the extent of the injury. The present manuscript describes a unilateral C2 hemisection (C2SH) model of cSCI that disrupts eupneic ipsilateral diaphragm (iDIAm) electromyographic (EMG) activity during breathing in rats. To evaluate recovery of DIAm motor control, the extent of deficit due to C2SH must first be clearly established. By verifying a complete initial loss of iDIAm EMG during breathing, subsequent recovery can be classified as either absent or present, and the extent of recovery can be estimated using the EMG amplitude. Additionally, by measuring the continued absence of iDIAm EMG activity during breathing after the acute spinal shock period following C2SH, the success of the initial C2SH may be validated. Measuring contralateral diaphragm (cDIAm) EMG activity can provide information about the compensatory effects of C2SH, which also reflects neuroplasticity. Moreover, DIAm EMG recordings from awake animals can provide vital physiological information about the motor control of the DIAm after C2SH. This article describes a method for a rigorous, reproducible, and reliable C2SH model of cSCI in rats, which is an excellent platform for studying respiratory neuroplasticity, compensatory cDIAm activity, and therapeutic strategies and pharmaceuticals.

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DiaphragmElectromyographyRecovery of FunctionSpinal Cord InjuriesAnimalsCervical CordDisease Models, AnimalRatsRats, Sprague-Dawley

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PMID38949318
PMCPMC11792163

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