Background: Hydrocephalus is a severe complication of intracerebral hemorrhage with ventricular extension (ICH-IVH) and causes cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accumulation. The choroid plexus epithelium plays an important role in CSF secretion and constitutes the blood-CSF barrier within the brain-immune system interface. Although the NLRP3 inflammasome, as a key component of the innate immune system, promotes neuroinflammation, its role in the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus after hemorrhage has not been investigated. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the potential mechanism of NLRP3 in hydrocephalus to discover a potential marker for targeted therapy.
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Methods: A rat model of hydrocephalus after ICH-IVH was developed through autologous blood infusion in wild-type and Nlrp3-/- rats. By studying the features and processes of the model, we investigated the relationship between the NLRP3 inflammasome and CSF hypersecretion in the choroid plexus.
Results: The ICH-IVH model rats showed ventricular dilation accompanied by CSF hypersecretion for 3 days. Based on the choroid plexus RNA-seq and proteomics results, we found that an inflammatory response was activated. The NLRP3 inflammasome was investigated, and the expression levels of NLRP3 inflammasome components reached a peak at 3 days after ICH-IVH. Inhibition of NLRP3 by an MCC950 inflammasome inhibitor or Nlrp3 knockout decreased CSF secretion and ventricular dilation and attenuated neurological deficits after ICH-IVH. The mechanism underlying the neuroprotective effects of NLRP3 inhibition involved decreased phosphorylation of NKCC1, which is a major protein that regulates CSF secretion by altering Na+- and K+-coupled water transport, via MCC950 or Nlrp3 knockout. In combination with the in vitro experiments, this experiment confirmed the involvement of the NLRP3/p-NKCC1 pathway and Na+ and K+ flux.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates that NKCC1 phosphorylation in the choroid plexus epithelium promotes NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated CSF hypersecretion and that NLRP3 plays an important role in the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus after hemorrhage. These findings provide a new therapeutic strategy for treating hydrocephalus.
Some studies have pointed to CD73 as a regulator of tissue barrier function [41]. Within the CNS, ATP can be released from neurons or other cells such as astrocytes. As mentioned above, CD39 catalyses the conversion of proinflammatory ATP/ADP into AMP and CD73 subsequently converts AMP into adenosine [42]. Thus, the proper functioning of CD39/CD73 ectonucleotidases concomitantly ensures the production of extracellular adenosine and the extinction of purinergic P2 receptor-dependent, ATP-induced signaling due to reduction of the ATP/ADP pool. Both of these effects contribute to the anti-inflammatory potential of the CD39/CD73 axis. Along with colon and kidney, the brain has particularly high levels of CD73 enzyme activity [41]. Similar to the A2A receptor, CD73 shows its strongest expression level in the CNS within the choroid plexus epithelium and is also detected on glial cells of the submeningeal areas of the spinal cord [22, 27, 43]. CD73 can be expressed on many types of endothelial cells [44]. Its expression on BBB endothelial cells remains low under steady state conditions relative to peripheral endothelial cells (Fig. 4a). It is present on mouse (Bend.3) and human (hCMEC/D3) brain endothelial cell lines in vitro [27, 45]. Unlike human brain endothelial cells [46, 47], CD73 expression on primary mouse brain endothelial cells was very low and not detected in vivo [43] (Fig. 4a). However, CD73 expression can be detected in primary human brain endothelial cells (Fig. 4b) [45, 48]. CD73 expression is sensitive to cyclic AMP (cAMP) and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)1 through its promoter [49]. Interferon (IFN)-β increases CD73 expression and adenosine concentration at the level of the CNS microvasculature, BBB and astrocytes [46, 47] and through enhanced adenosine production, may contribute to the anti-inflammatory effect of IFN-β in MS treatment.
Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (NTOS) results from the compression or irritation of the brachial plexus within the thoracic outlet. The associated symptoms result in significant disability and negative effects on patient health-related quality of life. The diagnosis of NTOS, despite being the most common type of TOS, remains challenging for surgeons, in part due to the nonspecific symptoms and lack of definitive diagnostic testing. In this article, we present the essential components of the evaluation of patients with NTOS including a thorough history and physical examination, stress maneuvers, diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, and assessment of disability using standardized patient-centered instruments.
Children who continue to have problems 3 to 6 months after birth may benefit from surgical treatment. Your child's doctors have several surgical options for treating brachial plexus birth injury, including:
To date, drugs trials have failed because they test medications on patients after the disease has taken hold. The choroid plexus is a network of blood vessels, connective tissue, and cells found in spaces called ventricles. It acts as a gateway for immune cells from the blood and also produces cerebrospinal fluid. CSF washes away waste products and rogue proteins called amyloid and tau. When these proteins build up in the brain, they kill neurons, leading to dementia.
Objective: Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to observe the influence of the up-transmitting of acupuncture signal into the brain in health volunteers whose nerve trunk was blocked by anesthetics.Methods: Thirty-one healthy volunteers were divided into two groups, the control group of 20 cases, and the brachial plexus blockade (BPB) group of 11 cases, with supraclavicular BPB route adopted. With the control group 2 acupoints were randomly selected (Hegu and Quchi of both sides), while with the BPB group Hegu and Quchi of anesthetic arm side were selected. Siemens ECAM/ ICON SPECT system was used to conduct brain imaging using double imaging assay before acupuncture and99mTc-ECD imaging agent during acupuncture for cerebral perfusion. The data were quantitatively analyzed by blood functional changing rate (BFCR%) mathematics model.Results: Before acupuncture, the control and BPB groups showed insignificant change by SPECT, but after electro-acupuncture (EA), the control group displayed improved motor and sensory cortex excitability in basal nuclei, contra-lateral thalamus, parietal and frontal lobe; while BPB group was characterized with reduction of the blood perfusion and cell function of contra-lateral thalamus of anesthetized arm. The difference between the two groups was significant (P
The outcome of choroid plexus tumor depending on 3 factors which are; choroid plexus carcinoma histopathology, location of tumor and extent of resection [4,12,13]. However Wolff et al predicted that location of tumor has no prognostic relevance as opposed to Berrak, et al. who found survival is poorest in infratentorial tumor in choroid plexus carcinoma. Mean survival documented for supratentorial tumor was 26.9% at 10 years and none for infratentorial tumor. In case of a relapse after primary treatment of choroid plexus carcinoma, it is a poor prognostic factor for survival. 5 year survival of choroid plexus carcinoma is estimated to be 25-30% in patient with gross total resection [7,11]. Menon, et al. calculated the survival in subtotal resection for choroid plexus carcinoma was 36 months from surgery and 58 months for gross total resection [9]. Thus we should at best aim for gross total resection or multiple stage resection to prevent complications.
All hormones act by binding to a specific receptor or receptors1. Inappropriate receptor activation can have profound negative effects on development and health, as illustrated by the formation of a scrotum and penis in genetic female humans exposed to androgens during gestation31. EDCs that inappropriately bind to and/or activate hormone receptors can produce adverse biological effects. There are numerous examples of chemicals that cause adverse effects after binding to nuclear hormone receptors. For example, EDCs that inappropriately activate the oestrogen receptors (ERα and ERβ) during development increase the risk of infertility in both sexes as well as reproductive tract cancer in women and prostate cancer in men32, in addition to other reproductive effects. Another example of an EDC that activates hormone receptors is that of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT; Box 1), which binds to ERα and ERβ33 and stimulates ER-dependent transcriptional activation and proliferation34 in a variety of species, including humans. Likewise, a specific hydroxylated congener of a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB; Box 1) can activate human thyroid hormone receptor-β-mediated transcription1,35. EDCs can also activate cell membrane receptors of peptide and steroid hormones. For instance, DDT binds to the transmembrane domain of the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), to allosterically enhance its stimulation of cAMP production36.
In patients receiving anticoagulants, a hematoma may compress the lumbosacral plexus. Neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis refers to several related disorders that have overlapping clinical manifestations but that are now understood to have distinct genetic causes. It causes various types of benign... read more occasionally involves a plexus. Other causes include postradiation fibrosis (eg, after radiation therapy for breast cancer) and diabetes Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Diabetes mellitus is impaired insulin secretion and variable degrees of peripheral insulin resistance leading to hyperglycemia. Early symptoms are related to hyperglycemia and include polydipsia... read more . 2ff7e9595c
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