Electroacupuncture in the repair of spinal cord injury：inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway and promoting neural stem cell proliferation
Xin Geng
Tao Sun
Jing-hui Li
Ning Zhao
Yong Wang
Hua-lin Yu
摘要：Electroacupuncture for the treatment of spinal cord injury has a good clinical curative effect, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. In our experiments, the spinal cord of adult Sprague-Daw-ley rats was clamped for 60 seconds.Dazhui (GV14) andMingmen (GV4) acupoints of rats were subjected to electroacupuncture. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay revealed that the expres-sion of serum inlfammatory factors was apparently downregulated in rat models of spinal cord injury after electroacupuncture. Hematoxylin-eosin staining and immunohistochemistry results demonstrated that electroacupuncture contributed to the proliferation of neural stem cells in rat injured spinal cord, and suppressed their differentiation into astrocytes. Real-time quantitative PCR and western blot assays showed that electroacupuncture inhibited activation of the Notch signaling pathway induced by spinal cord injury. These ifndings indicate that electroacupuncture repaired the injured spinal cord by suppressing the Notch signaling pathway and promoting the proliferation of endogenous neural stem cells.
机标关键词：spinal cord injurycell proliferationsignaling pathwayneural stem cellscurative effectwestern blot
资助基金：Funding(No. zd2012001)
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：10( 394-403 )
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