[Metabolic manifestations of the compensatory process in the brains of cats following spinal cord injuries].
The author studied the brains of 7 cats following the 30th and 90th days after lateral hemisections of the spinal cord on the superior cervical (2-3 segment) level and the brains of 7 control intact cats. The quantitative (cytointerpherometric) and morphological studies depicted an accumulation of dense substances (proteins) in the cytoplasma in the nuclei of the efferent neurons of the 5th layer of the motor cortex, in the nucleus rubri, Deyters nucleus and in the gigantic cells of the reticular nuclei on the intact side accompanied by an increase in the cells and an increase in the amount of satellites. More vivid and initial changes were seen in the cortex. The results are considered as structural and metabolic signs of a compensatory process conditioning the restitution of motor functions.
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D002415:Cats; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology
D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins
Metabolicheskie proiavleniia kompensatornogo protesessa v golovnom mozga koshki posle povrezhdeniia spinnogo mozga