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@#Objective To investigate the effect of local insulin injection on neurological function after crushed injury of facial nerve in rats. Methods Facial nerve was crushing injured in 30 Sprague-Dawley rats, from which 20 selected rats were divided into treatment group (n=10) and control group (n=10). The treatment group was injected with insulin 250 ng/kg at innervated muscle, and the control group was injected with normal saline. They were assessed with neurologic deficit score everyday within 7 days after injection, and the regeneration of nerve fiber was observed with retrograde fluorogold labeling. Results Compared with that in the control group, the neurological deficit score was improved more 5~7 days after injection in the treatment group, and the count of fluorogold labeling cells increased more in the treatment group. Conclusion Local injection of insulin can promote the recovery of neurological function after crushed injury of facial nerve.
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Objective To explore whether synergistic action occurs in development of depression-like behaviors using ovariectomy combined bondage stress,and whether hippocampal neural progenitor state is changed following depression-like behaviors in mice.Methods Forty female C57B/L mice were divided into four groups randomly,which included ovariectomy,bondage stress,ovariectomy combined bondage stress and sham groups.Depression-like behaviors were evaluated by open field test,sucrose preference and forced swimming test after animals had been treated for 21 days.All animals were fixed by 4％ PA perfusion through left ventricle,then brain was removed,and coronal serials sections were made.Expression of Ki67 and DCX was tested by immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence in subgranular zone of hippocampal dentate gyrus (SGZ).Results Body weight((18.70± 0.25) g vs (20.96±0.24)g),novelty-seeking behavior and sucrose preference decreased in ovariectomy combined bondage stress-group compared with those in sham group (P＜0.05),but forced swimming time increased in shame group((165.6±9.6)s vs (140.28±12.3) s).Likewisely,Ki67-positive cells((8.6±2.4)/section) and DCX-positive cells((4.2±1.4)/section) in SGZ decreased in ovariectomy combined bondage stress-group compared with those in sham group(Ki67:(16.7±2.5/section),DCX:(12.6±2.3/section) (P＜0.05).Unsimilarly,depressionlike behaviors had little change in ovariectomy-or bondage stress-groups compared with those in sham-group.Conclusion Ovariectomy combined bondage stress has synergistic action in development of depression,and inhibits the active state of progenitor in SGZ in mice.
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Objective To investigate the effect of local insulin injection on neurological function after crushed injury of facial nerve in rats. Methods Facial nerve was crushing injured in 30 Sprague-Dawley rats, from which 20 selected rats were divided into treatment group (n=10) and control group (n=10). The treatment group was injected with insulin 250 ng/kg at innervated muscle, and the control group was injected with normal saline. They were assessed with neurologic deficit score everyday within 7 days after injection, and the regeneration of nerve fiber was observed with retrograde fluorogold labeling. Results Compared with that in the control group, the neurological deficit score was improved more 5~7 days after injection in the treatment group, and the count of fluorogold labeling cells increased more in the treatment group. Conclusion Local injection of insulin can promote the recovery of neurological function after crushed injury of facial nerve.
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Objective To study the effect of aluminum on learning and memory and the synaptic interface constructure in hippocampus CA3 area in rats. Methods The electrical maze were used to test the behavioral reaction of rats. Some parameters of synaptic interface structure were measured by the method of ultrastructural quantitative analysis in hippocampus CA3 area in the rats. Results The time coming through the E-maze prolonged siginificantly in the experimental group compared with the normal control (P＜0.01), meanwhile the cyto-apparatus demonstrated the pathogenetic changes. Amounts of synapse obviously reduced and the post-synaptic density turned thinner in experimental group than in the control group (P＜0.01). Conclusion Aluminum can cause the malfunction on learning and memory, which related to the plastic of synapse.