scholarly journals On the question of secondary degeneration in the spinal cord

2020 ◽  
Vol V (2) ◽  
pp. 102-115
Author(s):  
S. A. Sukhanov ◽  
A. V. Agapov
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Secondary Degeneration

At the present time, in the method of coloring the nervous system according to Marchi, we have an extremely sensitive reagent, with the help of which it is possible to ascertain early changes in nerve fibers that undergo secondary degeneration for one reason or another. Only with the help of this method more accurate and definite data were obtained regarding the order in which and on which day after the injury of the spinal cord, the degeneration begins in its individual systems.

scholarly journals Deepening the Mechanisms of Visceral Pain Persistence: An Evaluation of the Gut-Spinal Cord Relationship

Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lucarini ◽  
Carmen Parisio ◽  
Jacopo J. V. Branca ◽  
Cristina Segnani ◽  
Chiara Ippolito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Visceral Pain ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Morphological Alterations ◽  
Mhc Ii ◽  
Maladaptive Plasticity ◽  
Central Nervous Systems ◽  
Major Clinical Problem

The management of visceral pain is a major clinical problem in patients affected by gastrointestinal disorders. The poor knowledge about pain chronicization mechanisms prompted us to study the functional and morphological alterations of the gut and nervous system in the animal model of persistent visceral pain caused by 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (DNBS). This agent, injected intrarectally, induced a colonic inflammation peaking on day 3 and remitting progressively from day 7. In concomitance with bowel inflammation, the animals developed visceral hypersensitivity, which persisted after colitis remission for up to three months. On day 14, the administration of pain-relieving drugs (injected intraperitoneally and intrathecally) revealed a mixed nociceptive, inflammatory and neuropathic pain originating from both the peripheral and central nervous system. At this time point, the colonic histological analysis highlighted a partial restitution of the tunica mucosa, transmural collagen deposition, infiltration of mast cells and eosinophils, and upregulation of substance P (SP)-positive nerve fibers, which were surrounded by eosinophils and MHC-II-positive macrophages. A significant activation of microglia and astrocytes was observed in the dorsal and ventral horns of spinal cord. These results suggest that the persistence of visceral pain induced by colitis results from maladaptive plasticity of the enteric, peripheral and central nervous systems.

Cellular Engineering: Molecular Repair of Membranes to Rescue Cells of the Damaged Nervous System

Neurosurgery ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Borgens
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mechanical Damage ◽  
Nerve Impulse ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Acute Administration ◽  
Hydrophobic Core

Abstract PURPOSE The acute administration of hydrophilic polymers (polyethylene glycol) can immediately seal nerve membranes, preventing their continuing dissolution and secondary axotomy. Polymer application can even be used to reconnect, or fuse, the proximal and distal segments of severed axons in completely transected adult mammalian spinal cord. CONCEPT The sealing or fusion of damaged nerve membranes leads to a very rapid (minutes or hours) recovery of excitability in severely damaged nerve fibers, observed as a rapid return of nerve impulse conduction in vitro, as well as an in vivo recovery of spinal cord conduction and behavioral loss in spinal cord-injured adult guinea pigs. RATIONALE Surfactant application produces a rapid repair of membrane breaches through mechanisms of interaction between the polymers and the aqueous phase of damaged membranes, and their ability to insert into, or seal, the hydrophobic core of the axolemma exposed by mechanical damage. DISCUSSION This new technology applied to severe neurotrauma offers a clinically safe and practical means to rescue significant populations of spinal cord nerve fibers within 8 hours after damage—preventing their continued dissolution and secondary axotomy by secondary injury mechanisms. Application of this novel technology to other injuries to the peripheral and central nervous system is discussed, as well as a general application to soft tissue trauma.

scholarly journals About ascending degenerations in the brainstem and descending in the spinal cord (after damage to the lateral part of the brain between the occipital foramen and atlant)

2020 ◽  
Vol VI (1) ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
S. A. Sukhanov
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Nervous Tissue ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Lateral Part ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Occipital Foramen

Among the new ways of coloring the nervous tissue, which gave us a lot of new facts and partly contributing to the changes in our previous information about the course of fibers in the central nervous system, is the Marchi method, which is very common at the present time, due to its extreme convenience and simplicity in defining degeneration nerve fibers.

scholarly journals Materials for the study of secondary degeneration in the spinal cord after transverse injuries

2020 ◽  
Vol V (3) ◽  
pp. 1-66
Author(s):  
B. I. Vorotynsky
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Secondary Degeneration ◽  
Gross Error ◽  
The Central Nervous System

All my experiments were carried out on dogs. I stopped at these animals in view of the fact that in terms of topographic relations, their spinal cord is closer to the human; this circumstance gives more guarantees not to fall into a gross error when comparing the results obtained with those of people. At the same time, only adult dogs were taken for the experiments, in which the process of development of the central nervous system could be considered completely complete. This condition was essential for my goals, since I set myself the task of studying secondary regeneration on fully developed brains. In addition, the question of the beginnings and consistency of the development of secondary degenerations of individual systems in the spinal cord of dogs, specially put into the program of my study, also required the observance of the indicated conditions.

β-Mannosidosis: Myelin and oligodendrocyte lesions in brain and spinal cord

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 694-695
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Lovell ◽  
Margaret Z. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Genetic Disorder ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Axonal Spheroids ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Pendular Nystagmus ◽  
Myelin Deficits ◽  
Recessive Defect ◽  
Brain And Spinal Cord

Caprine β-mannosidosis, an autosomal recessive defect of glycoprotein catabolism, is associated with a deficiency of tissue and plasma -mannosidase and with tissue accumulation and urinary excretion of oligosaccharides, including the trisaccharide Man(β1-4)GlcNAc(βl-4)GlcNAc and the disaccharide Man(β1-4)GlcNAc. This genetic disorder is evident at birth, with severe neurological deficits including a marked intention tremor, pendular nystagmus, ataxia and inability to stand. Major pathological characteristics described in Nubian goats in Michigan and in Anglo-Nubian goats in New South Wales include widespread cytoplasmic vacuolation in the nervous system and viscera, axonal spheroids, and severe myelin paucity in the brain but not spinal cord or peripheral nerves. Light microscopic examination revealed marked regional variation in the severity of central nervous system myelin deficits, with some brain areas showing nearly complete absence of myelin and other regions characterized by the presence of 25-50% of the control number of myelin sheaths.

Central Nerve System Impairment, AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
James B. Talmage ◽  
Jay Blaisdell
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Neurological Impairment ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Central Nerve System ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The One ◽  
Nerve System ◽  
The Brain

Abstract Injuries that affect the central nervous system (CNS) can be catastrophic because they involve the brain or spinal cord, and determining the underlying clinical cause of impairment is essential in using the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), in part because the AMA Guides addresses neurological impairment in several chapters. Unlike the musculoskeletal chapters, Chapter 13, The Central and Peripheral Nervous System, does not use grades, grade modifiers, and a net adjustment formula; rather the chapter uses an approach that is similar to that in prior editions of the AMA Guides. The following steps can be used to perform a CNS rating: 1) evaluate all four major categories of cerebral impairment, and choose the one that is most severe; 2) rate the single most severe cerebral impairment of the four major categories; 3) rate all other impairments that are due to neurogenic problems; and 4) combine the rating of the single most severe category of cerebral impairment with the ratings of all other impairments. Because some neurological dysfunctions are rated elsewhere in the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, the evaluator may consult Table 13-1 to verify the appropriate chapter to use.

METABOLIC STUDIES WITH 131I-LABELED THYROXINE. II.

1963 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Grinberg
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Optic Nerve ◽  
Pituitary Gland ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Pituitary Glands ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Tentative Explanation

ABSTRACT Radiologically thyroidectomized female Swiss mice were injected intraperitoneally with 131I-labeled thyroxine (T4*), and were studied at time intervals of 30 minutes and 4, 28, 48 and 72 hours after injection, 10 mice for each time interval. The organs of the central nervous system and the pituitary glands were chromatographed, and likewise serum from the same animal. The chromatographic studies revealed a compound with the same mobility as 131I-labeled triiodothyronine in the organs of the CNS and in the pituitary gland, but this compound was not present in the serum. In most of the chromatographic studies, the peaks for I, T4 and T3 coincided with those for the standards. In several instances, however, such an exact coincidence was lacking. A tentative explanation for the presence of T3* in the pituitary gland following the injection of T4* is a deiodinating system in the pituitary gland or else the capacity of the pituitary gland to concentrate T3* formed in other organs. The presence of T3* is apparently a characteristic of most of the CNS (brain, midbrain, medulla and spinal cord); but in the case of the optic nerve, the compound is not present under the conditions of this study.

Bioelectrodes for Neural Prostheses

1985 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Terry Hambrecht
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Urinary Bladder ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Neural Prostheses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spinal Cord Disorders ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Auditory Prostheses

ABSTRACTNeural prostheses which are commercially available include cochlear implants for treating certain forms of deafness and urinary bladder evacuation prostheses for individuals with spinal cord disorders. In the future we can anticipate improvements in bioelectrodes and biomaterials which should permit more sophisticated devices such as visual prostheses for the blind and auditory prostheses for the deaf based on microstimulation of the central nervous system.

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