Tamoxifen and Src kinase inhibitors as neuroprotective/neuroregenerative drugs after spinal cord injury
Iris K Salgado
Aranza I Torrado
Jose M Santiago
Jorge D Miranda
摘要：Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that produces signiifcant changes in the life-style of patients. Many molecular and cellular events are triggered after the initial physical impact to the cord. Two major phases have been described in the ifeld of SCI: an acute phase and late phase. Most of the therapeutic strategies are focused on the late phase because this provides an opportunity to target cellular events like apoptosis, demyelination, scar formation and axonal outgrowth. In this mini-review, we will focus on two agents (tamoxifen and a Src kinase family inhibitor known as PP2) that have been shown in our laboratory to produce neuroprotective (increase cell survival) and/or regenerative (axonal outgrowth) actions. The animal model used in our laboratory is adult female rat (~250 g) with a moderate contusion (12.5 mm) to the spinal cord at the T10 level, using the MASCIS impactor device. Tamoxifen or PP2 was administered by implantation of a 15 mg pellet (Innovative Research of America, Sarasota, FL, USA) or by intraperitoneal injections (1.5 mg/kg, every 3 days), respectively, to produce a long-term effect (28 days). Tamoxifen and the Src kinase inhibitor, PP2, are drugs that in rats with a moderate spinal cord injury promote functional locomotor recovery, increase spared white matter tissue, and stimulate axonal outgrowth. Moreover, tamoxifen reduces the formation of reactive oxygen species. Therefore, these drugs are possible therapeutic agents that have a neuroprotective/regen-erative activity in vertebrates with SCI.
机标关键词：kinase inhibitorsspinal cord injuryreactive oxygen speciestherapeutic agentscell survivalanimal modeladult femaleused in
资助基金：Funding(R25 GM061838)COBRE(5P20-GM103642)
论文发表日期：2015-01-01
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：6( 385-390 )
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