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Glia Dose not Participate in Antinociceptive Effects of Gabapentin in Rats with Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain

  • Yang, Kui-Y.;Kim, Hak-K.;Jin, Myoung-U.;Ju, Jin-S.;Ahn, Dong-K.
    • International Journal of Oral Biology
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    • 제37권3호
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2012
  • Previous clinical studies have demonstrated that gabapentin, a drug that binds to the voltage-gated calcium channel ${\alpha}2{\delta}1$ subunit proteins, is effective in the management of neuropathic pain, but there is limited evidence that addresses the participation of glial cells in the antiallodynic effects of this drug. The present study investigated the participation of glial cells in the anti-nociceptive effects of gabapentin in rats with trigeminal neuropathic pain produced by mal-positioned dental implants. Under anesthesia, the left mandibular second molar was extracted and replaced by a miniature dental implant to induce injury to the inferior alveolar nerve. Mal-positioned dental implants significantly decreased the air-puff thresholds both ipsilateral and contralateral to the injury site. Gabapentin was administered intracisternally beginning on postoperative day (POD) 1 or on POD 7 for three days. Early or late treatment with 0.3, 3, or 30 ${\mu}g$ of gabapentin produced significant anti-allodynic effect in the rats with mal-positioned dental implants. On POD 9, in the mal-positioned dental implants group, OX-42, a microglia marker, and GFAP, an astrocyte marker, were found to be up-regulated in the medullary dorsal horn, compared with the naive group. However, the intracisternal administration of gabapentin (30 ${\mu}g$) failed to reduce the number of activated microglia or astrocytes in the medullary dorsal horn. These findings suggest that gabapentin produces significant antinociceptive effects, which are not mediated by the inhibition of glial cell function in the medullary dorsal horn, in a rat model of trigeminal neuropathic pain.

신경아교세포와 조현병 (Neuroglial Cells and Schizophrenia)

  • 원승희
    • 생물정신의학
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2015
  • In the past decade, structural, molecular, and functional changes in glial cells have become a major focus in the search for the neurobiological foundations of schizophrenia. Glial cells, consisting of oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, microglia, and nerve/glial antigen 2-positive cells, constitute a major cell population in the central nervous system. There is accumulating evidence of reduced numbers of oligodendrocytes and altered expression of myelin/oligodendrocyte-related genes that might explain the white matter abnormalities and altered inter- and intra-hemispheric connectivities that are characteristic signs of schizophrenia. Astrocytes play a key role in the synaptic metabolism of neurotransmitters ; thus, astrocyte dysfunction may contribute to certain aspects of altered neurotransmission in schizophrenia. Increased densities of microglial cells and aberrant expression of microglia-related surface markers in schizophrenia suggest that immunological/inflammatory factors are of considerable relevance to the pathophysiology of psychosis. This review describes current evidence for the multifaceted role of glial cells in schizophrenia and discusses efforts to develop glia-directed therapies for the treatment of the disease.

Stem Cells in Drug Screening for Neurodegenerative Disease

  • Kim, Hyun-Jung;Jin, Chang-Yun
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • 제16권1호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2012
  • Because the average human life span has recently increased, the number of patients who are diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases has escalated. Recent advances in stem cell research have given us access to unlimited numbers of multi-potent or pluripotent cells for screening for new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. Neural stem cells (NSCs) are a good model with which to screen effective drugs that increase neurogenesis. Recent technologies for human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can provide human cells that harbour specific neurodegenerative disease. This article discusses the use of NSCs, ESCs and iPSCs for neurodegenerative drug screening and toxicity evaluation. In addition, we introduce drugs or natural products that are recently identified to affect the stem cell fate to generate neurons or glia.

Applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

  • Moseley, Michael E.
    • 대한자기공명의과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한자기공명의과학회 2001년도 제6차 학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2001
  • Anisotropic DWI - Mapping of the Proton Diffusion "tensor". In neural ordered tissue, it is thought that water diffusion is mainly influenced by the presence of myelin sheaths and intracellular structures. Perpendicular to the fiber tracts, the cholesterol-laden myelin lipid bilayers might restrict or hinder the spins from diffusing through the normally highly permeable cytomembrane. Diffusion along the fiber is more or less determined by subcellular structures, such as the endoplasmatic reticulum, mitochondria, neuro-filaments and macromolecules. In addition to that, the entire complex of axons and stabilizing tissue (i.e., glia cells, astrocytes) is also assumed to influence diffusion due to the tortuosity of proton translation, but the uniform distribution of such cells throughout the brain might render this notion less important as initially anticipated.

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Erk activation mediates lipoPolysaccharide-induced induction of matrix metalloprotease-9 from rat primary astrocytes

  • Lee, Woo-Jong;Yoo, Byung-Kwon;Park, Gyu-Hwan;Ko, Kwang-Ho
    • 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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    • pp.304.2-304.2
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    • 2002
  • In central nervous system. matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are produced by neuron as well as glia and implicated in physiological events such as neurite outgrowth and myelination etc. In addition. MMPs also contribute to the pathogenesis of several CNS diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and malignant glioma. In spite of their functional importance, little is known about the signal transduction pathways leading to the induction of MMPs in CNS. Here. we investigated whether the activation of Erk(1/2) is involved in the induction of MMP-9 in LPS-stimulated primary astrocytes. (omitted)

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조롱박신경세포의 변성에 따른 버그만아교세포의 면역조직학적 연구 (Studies on Molecular Plasticity of Bergmann Glia following Purkinje Cell Degeneration)

  • 윤철종;조사선;이하규;박민철
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • 제35권3호
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    • pp.165-176
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    • 2005
  • 소뇌의 버그만아교세포는 인접한 조롱박신경세포를 둘러싸는 특이한 해부학적 분포를 하고 있어 종래로부터 조롱박신경세포에 대한 물리적 지지 역할과 함께 이 신경 세포의 생존과 기능에 필요한 대사물질을 공급해 주는 것으로 추정되어 왔으나 이에 대한 구체적인 연구는 많지 않다. 본 연구에서는 버그만아교세포와 조롱박신경세포의 상관관계를 증명하기 위한 연구로 전자현미경적 정상적인 미세구조와 신경독물인 하르말린을 흰쥐에 투여하여 조롱박신경세포만을 특이적으로 파괴시킨 소뇌조직을 대상으로 최근 버그만아교세포에서 발현되는 것으로 알려진 수 종의 대사성 단백물질의 동향을 면역조직 화학방법으로 관찰하여 GLAST의 면역 염색성은 정상부위보다 신경세포 손상부위의 버그만아교세포에서 현저히 감소되었다. 하르말린 투여군의 흰쥐에서 조롱박신경세포의 사멸은 소뇌벌레에서 집중적으로 일어났으며 사멸된 부위는 calbindin D-28K에 염색된 정상 조롱박신경세포들 사이에서 산발적으로 끼어 있는 빈 공간으로 나타났는데 빈공간은 분자층과 조롱박신경세포층이 세로로 달리는 좁고 긴 띠 (bands) 모양의 특이 한 양상을 보였다. MT 면역염색성은 신경세포 손상부위의 버그만아교세포에서 현저히 증가하였다. 이상의 관찰 결과로 볼 때 조롱박신경세포의 손상에 의하여 버그만아교세포는 강한 아교세포반응을 보이며 MT의 발현을 통하여 인접 신경세포 손상과 미세아교세포 활성에 의하여 유발된 산화성 스스로를 보호하고 생존한다. 그러나 GLAST의 발현의 감소는 조롱박신경세포의 사멸로 인하여 이들 세포들로부터 유리되어 나오는 글루타메이트의 감소 또는 중단되므로 버그만아교세포에서 이들 글루타메이트 수송체 역할이 감소되었음을 반영하는 것으로 사료된다.93({\pm}0.053){\mu}m$ 였다. 으뜸세포의 사립체의 크기는 정상대조군, 종양대조군 및 BCG 투여군이 각각 $0.80({\pm}0.130){\mu}m,\;0.83({\pm}0.143){\mu}m$$0.72({\pm}0.078){\mu}m$ 였다. 이상의 결과를 종합해보면 BCG를 반복 투여하면 위점막으뜸세포의 분비과립이 약간 작아지는 등 분비기능이 다소 억제되나 그 정도가 경미하여 으뜸세포의 분비기능에 큰 손상을 주지 않는 것으로 생각된다.모양을 비교한 결과 꼬리핵과 줄무늬체바닥핵에서는 모두 가지돌기가시(dendritic spine)에 연접하였으나, 중격옆핵과 중격핵에서는 가지돌기 (dendrite)에 연접하는 것과 가지돌기가시에 연접하는 것이 혼재하였다. 이들 두 신경핵 무리는 이마앞겉질에서 기원하는 축삭종말의 연접차이로 볼 때 서로 다른 회로계통에 속할 것으로 생각되며, 문헌고찰을 통해서 꼬리핵과 줄무늬체바닥핵은 줄무늬체회로 (striatal circuit)에 속하고 중격옆핵과 중격핵은 변연계통회로(limbic circuit)에 속할 것으로 판정했다. 이마앞겉질은 생리적, 약리적, 신경학적 및 형태학적 근거들로 보아 바닥핵들을 통해 변연계통과 대뇌겉질 전체에 영향을 미칠 것으로 여겨지는데, 본 실험에서는 네 종류의 바닥핵들, 즉 꼬리핵, 줄무늬체바닥핵, 중격옆핵 및 중격핵과 관련된 신경연접들을 관찰하였으며, 그 결과를 문헌 고찰한 결과 변연계통과 줄무늬체계통이 앞뇌의 바닥에 있는 신경핵들에서 형태학적 교차연결을 통해 정서와 마음의 상태를 행동과 대응으로 표현하는 중요한 신경회로가 존재함을 제안하였다.腎臟組織)에서 더많이 발생되었다.

Neural Transcription Factors: from Embryos to Neural Stem Cells

  • Lee, Hyun-Kyung;Lee, Hyun-Shik;Moody, Sally A.
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • 제37권10호
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    • pp.705-712
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    • 2014
  • The early steps of neural development in the vertebrate embryo are regulated by sets of transcription factors that control the induction of proliferative, pluripotent neural precursors, the expansion of neural plate stem cells, and their transition to differentiating neural progenitors. These early events are critical for producing a pool of multipotent cells capable of giving rise to the multitude of neurons and glia that form the central nervous system. In this review we summarize findings from gain- and loss-of-function studies in embryos that detail the gene regulatory network responsible for these early events. We discuss whether this information is likely to be similar in mammalian embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells that are cultured according to protocols designed to produce neurons. The similarities and differences between the embryo and stem cells may provide important guidance to stem cell protocols designed to create immature neural cells for therapeutic uses.