Function of microglia and macrophages in secondary damage after spinal cord injury
Xiang Zhou
Xijing He
Yi Ren
摘要：Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating type of neurological trauma with limited therapeutic op-portunities. The pathophysiology of SCI involves primary and secondary mechanisms of injury. Among all the secondary injury mechanisms, the inlfammatory response is the major contrib-utor and results in expansion of the lesion and further loss of neurologic function. Meanwhile, the inlfammation directly and indirectly dominates the outcomes of SCI, including not only pain and motor dysfunction, but also preventingneuronal regeneration. Microglia and macrophages play very important roles in secondary injury. Microglia reside in spinal parenchyma and survey the microenvironment through the signals of injury or infection. Macrophages are derived from monocytes recruited to injured sites from the peripheral circulation. Activated resident microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages induce and magnify immune and inlfammatory responses not only by means of their secretory moleculesand phagocytosis, but also through their inlfuence on astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and demyelination. In this review, we focus on the roles of mi-croglia and macrophages in secondary injury and how they contribute to the sequelae of SCI.
机标关键词：spinal cord injuryperipheral circulationmotor dysfunctiontype of
资助基金：Funding(R01GM100474)the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research(CSCR13IRG006)
论文发表日期：2014-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：9( 1787-1795 )
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