central nervous system axons fail to regenerate after spinal cord injury (sci), partially due to the accumulation of extracellular matrix molecules in the lesion and formation of the glial scar. depakine, as known as histone deacetylase inhibitor, has neuroprotective effects. this study evaluated the histological changes (cavitation and axon regeneration) after sci associated with (following ad...

INTRODUCTION Memory and cognitive impairments are some of devastating outcomes of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) plaques in hippocampus, the gray matter part of the brain. The present study aimed to evaluate the intrahippocampal injection of Ethidium Bromide (EB) as a simple and focal model to assess cognition and gray matter demyelination. METHODS Thirty Wistar rats were divided into three groups: ...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (cns) characterized by inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes. one of its pathophysiological hallmarks is demyelination, a consequence of oligodendroglial cell death leading supply shortfall and missing electrical insulation to axons. demyelination induced consequences on neuronal network activity and subsequen...

Previous case reports have demonstrated COVID-19 related neurotropism. Neural infection may result from trans-lamina cribrosa invasion that allows to reach the brain through olfactory tract. A wide range of symptoms headaches, anosmia, dysgeusia neuropathy, encephalitis, cerebrovascular stroke, and rarely demyelination has been reported. Here, we report a pontine causing generalized weakness as...

objective: hippocampal insults have been observed in multiple sclerosis (ms) patients. fibroblast growth factor-2 (fgf2) induces neurogenesis in the hippocampus and enhances the proliferation, migration and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (opcs). in the current study, we have investigated the effect of fgf2 on the processes of gliotoxin induced demyelination and subsequent r...

introduction: demyelination is one of the main causes of neurological disability. it is the end product of numerous pathological processes, multiple sclerosis (ms) being the most common cause. more than 70% of the ms patients suffer from optic disturbances. this disease commonly affects the optic pathway, particularly the optic nerves and chiasm. several attempts have been made to produce a sui...

Bmi-1, a polycomb transcriptional repressor, is implicated in cell cycle regulation and cell senescence. Its absence results in generalized astrogliosis and epilepsy during the postnatal development, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate the occurrence of oxidative stress in the brain of four-week-old Bmi-1 null mice. The mice showed various hallmarks of neur...