title: Role of neurotrophins in recovery of phrenic motor function following spinal cord injury.
abstract: Many individuals who sustain a cervical spinal cord injury are unable to maintain adequate ventilation due to diaphragm muscle paralysis. These patients become dependent on mechanical ventilators and this situation is associated with ongoing problems with pulmonary clearance, infections, and lung injury leading to significant morbidity and reduced life expectancy. Therefore, functional recovery of rhythmic phrenic activity and the ability to generate expulsive forces would dramatically affect the quality of life of patients with cervical spinal cord injury. Neurotrophins are very promising in that they have been shown to play an important role in modulating functional neuroplasticity. Specifically, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acting via the tropomyosin-related kinase receptor type B (TrkB) has been implicated in neuroplasticity following spinal cord injury. Our central hypothesis is that functional recovery of rhythmic phrenic activity after cervical spinal cord injury is enhanced by an increase in BDNF/TrkB signaling in phrenic motoneurons, providing a novel therapeutic target for patients.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States. sieck.gary@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Gary C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Sieck
authors.forename: Carlos B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Mantilla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D010791:Phrenic Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D012119:Respiration; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D009414:Nerve Growth Factors
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