Hypoxic conditioning and the central nervous system: A new therapeutic opportunity for brain and spinal cord injuries?
Hypoxic conditioning and the central nervous system: A new therapeutic opportunity for brain and spinal cord injuries?
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DOI:
10.1177/1535370217712691
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发表时间:
2017-06-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Verges, S.
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作者:
Baillieul, S.;Chacaroun, S.;Verges, S.
Central nervous system diseases are among the most disabling in the world. Neuroprotection and brain recovery from either acute or chronic neurodegeneration still represent a challenge in neurology and neurorehabilitation as pharmacology treatments are often insufficiently effective. Conditioning the central nervous system has been proposed as a potential non-pharmacological neuro-therapeutic. Conditioning refers to a procedure by which a potentially deleterious stimulus is applied near to but below the threshold of damage to the organism to increase resistance to the same or even different noxious stimuli given above the threshold of damage. Hypoxic conditioning has been investigated in several cellular and preclinical models and is now recognized as inducing endogenous mechanisms of neuroprotection. Ischemic, traumatic, or chronic neurodegenerative diseases can benefit from hypoxic conditioning strategies aiming at preventing the deleterious consequences or reducing the severity of the pathological condition (preconditioning) or aiming at inducing neuroplasticity and recovery (postconditioning) following central nervous system injury. Hypoxic conditioning can consist in single (sustained) or cyclical (intermittent, interspersed by short period of normoxia) hypoxia stimuli which duration range from few minutes to several hours and that can be repeated over several days or weeks. This mini-review addresses the existing evidence regarding the use of hypoxic conditioning as a potential innovating neuro-therapeutic modality to induce neuroprotection, neuroplasticity and brain recovery. This mini-review also emphasizes issues which remain to be clarified and future researches to be performed in the field.