Project description:Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is frequently used to treat peripheral wounds or decompression sickness. Evidence suggests that HBO therapy can provide neuroprotection and has an anti-inflammatory impact after neurologic injury including spinal cord injury (SCI). Our primary purpose was to conduct an unbiased, genome-wide screening of mRNA expression changes in the injured spinal cord after HBO therapy. A mRNA gene array was used to evaluate samples taken from the contused region of the spinal cord following a lateralized mid-cervical contusion injury in adult female rats. HBO therapy consisted of daily, 1-hour sessions (3.0 ATA, 100% O2) initiated on the day of SCI. Gene set enrichment analyses indicated that HBO upregulated genes in pathways associated with electron transport, mitochondrial function, and oxidative phosphorylation, and downregulation genes in pathways associated with inflammation (including cytokines and NF-B) and apoptotic signaling. In a separate cohort, spinal cord histology was performed to verify whether the HBO treatment impacted neuronal cell counts or inflammatory markers. Compared to untreated rats, there was increased NeuN positive cells in the spinal cord of HBO treated rats (p=0.007). Further, staining for anti-ionized calcium binding adaptor protein (Iba-1, a microglial marker) was reduced after HBO (p=0.028). We conclude that HBO therapy, initiated shortly after SCI and continued for 10-days, can alter the molecular signature of the lesioned spinal cord in a manner consistent with an anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective impact.
Project description:Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is frequently used to treat peripheral wounds or decompression sickness. Evidence suggests that HBO therapy can provide neuroprotection and has an anti-inflammatory impact after neurological injury, including spinal cord injury (SCI). Our primary purpose was to conduct a genome-wide screening of mRNA expression changes in the injured spinal cord after HBO therapy. An mRNA gene array was used to evaluate samples taken from the contused region of the spinal cord following a lateralized mid-cervical contusion injury in adult female rats. HBO therapy consisted of daily, 1-h sessions (3.0 ATA, 100% O2) initiated on the day of SCI and continued for 10 days. Gene set enrichment analyses indicated that HBO upregulated genes in pathways associated with electron transport, mitochondrial function, and oxidative phosphorylation, and downregulated genes in pathways associated with inflammation (including cytokines and nuclear factor kappa B [NF-κB]) and apoptotic signaling. In a separate cohort, spinal cord histology was performed to verify whether the HBO treatment impacted neuronal cell counts or inflammatory markers. Compared with untreated rats, there were increased NeuN positive cells in the spinal cord of HBO-treated rats (p = 0.004). We conclude that HBO therapy, initiated shortly after SCI and continued for 10 days, can alter the molecular signature of the lesioned spinal cord in a manner consistent with a neuroprotective impact.
Project description:Excerpt from a larger study which characterized the transcriptional effects of a spinal cord contusion injury in rats. This is the data from the almost chronic contusion state (35 days) at the injury site (Thoracic 8) - where we saw significant changes in several areas, including cholesterol metabolism genes. Other spinal cord areas (rostral, caudal) and time-points (3 hours, 24 hours, 7 days and 35 days) were analyzed as well and are discussed in our paper and at www.crpf.org/microarray. Keywords = Spinal Cord Injury Keywords = chronic Keywords = thoracic Keywords = cholesterol Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Excerpt from a larger study which characterized the transcriptional effects of a spinal cord contusion injury in rats. This is the data from the almost chronic contusion state (35 days) at the injury site (Thoracic 8) - where we saw significant changes in several areas, including cholesterol metabolism genes. Other spinal cord areas (rostral, caudal) and time-points (3 hours, 24 hours, 7 days and 35 days) were analyzed as well and are discussed in our paper and at www.crpf.org/microarray.
Project description:Mid-cervical spinal cord contusion disrupts both the pathways and motoneurons vital to the activity of inspiratory muscles. The present study was designed to determine if a rat contusion model could result in a measurable deficit to both ventilatory and respiratory motor function under "normal" breathing conditions at acute to chronic stages post trauma. Through whole body plethysmography and electromyography we assessed respiratory output from three days to twelve weeks after a cervical level 3 (C3) contusion. Contused animals showed significant deficits in both tidal and minute volumes which were sustained from acute to chronic time points. We also examined the degree to which the contusion injury impacted ventilatory pattern variability through assessment of Mutual Information and Sample Entropy. Mid-cervical contusion significantly and robustly decreased the variability of ventilatory patterns. The enduring deficit to the respiratory motor system caused by contusion was further confirmed through electromyography recordings in multiple respiratory muscles. When isolated via a lesion, these contused pathways were insufficient to maintain respiratory activity at all time points post injury. Collectively these data illustrate that, counter to the prevailing literature, a profound and lasting ventilatory and respiratory motor deficit may be modelled and measured through multiple physiological assessments at all time points after cervical contusion injury.
Project description:Aims: To better understand the potential mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment alleviating spinal cord injury (SCI). Materials and methods: The SCI model was firstly built in mice, which were randomly divided into three groups: Sham (SH), SCI and HBO groups, followed by hind limb motor function evaluation. Then the spinal cord tissue samples were harvested for genome-wide transcriptional analysis at 1 week after injury. Finally, some highly expressed lnc-rna were selected for functional analysis. Results: the present study uncovered the lncRNAs expression profile of spinal cord following HBO treatment, and identified 577 DE lncRNAs in spinal cord sample among the SH, SCI and HBO groups. The key biological process and pathways were also identified and may be important mechanisms by which HBO treatment alleviating SCI Conclusions: Moreover, this study indicated that lncRNAs NONMMUT 092674.1 and NONMMUT042986.2 may be involved in the process of HBO treatment promoting the recovery of neurological function after SCI.
Project description:Aims: To better understand the potential mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment alleviating spinal cord injury (SCI). Materials and methods: The SCI model was firstly built in mice, which were randomly divided into three groups: Sham (SH), SCI and HBO groups, followed by hind limb motor function evaluation. Then the spinal cord tissue samples were harvested for histological evaluation and genome-wide transcriptional analysis at 1 week after injury. Finally, some oxidative stress and cell death related differently expressed genes were selected to be analyzed followed by the functional analysis. Results: HBO treatment significantly improved the recovery of hind limb motor function and decreased the histology score compared to the SCI group. In the genome-wide transcriptional analysis, a total of 76 common differently expressed gene among the three groups were obtained at 1 week after injury, which were enriched in functional pathway such as ferroptosis, calcium signaling pathway, serotonergic synapse, etc. Trends in expression of the six genes were consistent with transcriptional analysis. Conclusions: Identified differentially expressed genes and related signaling pathways may be associated with HBO treatment alleviating second spinal cord injury. These results contribute to elucidate the mechanism of HBO in the treatment of SCI.
Project description:RATIONALE: Radiation therapy can cause long-term adverse effects. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be effective in lessening gastrointestinal symptoms caused by radiation therapy given for pelvic cancer. It is not yet known whether high-pressure oxygen is effective in treating adverse effects caused by radiation therapy.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying hyperbaric oxygen therapy to see how well it works in treating long-term gastrointestinal adverse effects caused by radiation therapy in patients with pelvic cancer.
Project description:The overall goal of the project was to confirm the presence of different energetic states of mitochondrial subpopulations depending on their subcellular localization within cardiomyocytes, i.e., subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar mitochondria (IFM). Here we analysed proteomic changes upon treatment of pigs with hyperbaric oxygen.
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a dreadful, chronic, and irreversibly progressive disease leading to death with few effective treatments. Our previous study suggested that repetitive hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment alleviates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice, but the underlying mechanism is not clear. In this study, we compared the RNA-seq data from bleomycin challenged mouse lung tissues with or without repetitive HBO treatment, to figure out the affected biological processes and pathways. Combined with integrative analysis of public data from GEO, our study support HBO treatment as a viable strategy against pulmonary fibrosis.