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Fetal neocortical grafts placed in brain infarcts do not improve paw-reaching deficits in adult spontaneously hypertensive rats

In English

Författare

  • Martin Grabowski
  • Barbro Johansson
  • Patrik Brundin

Summary, in English

The aim was to study if neural grafts placed brain infarcts could improve functional recovery. The middle cerebral artery was occluded (MCAO) in 19 spontaneously hypertensive rats. Nine rats were sham operated. Twelve to 16 days after the ischemic insult, 9 of the MCAO rats received transplants of dissociated fetal neocortical tissue (MCAO-T) and 1, 3 and 6 months after transplantation surgery, the rats were behaviorally evaluated by a test for forelimb function. Infarct and transplant sizes were measured morphometrically. The remaining volume of the infarcted hemisphere was 66 +/- 7% (mean +/- SD) in the MCAO group and 71 +/- 9% in the MCAO-T group of the non-operated hemisphere. All grafted rats had surviving transplants. Contralateral to the lesion, paw-reaching was highly impaired in both infarcted groups compared with sham-operated controls with no significant difference between MCAO and MCAO-T. The lesion size correlated significantly with contralateral paw-reach performance at all test periods. We conclude that neocortical grafts did not alleviate the impaired forepaw function.

Publiceringsår

1996

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

68-72

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Acta Neurochirurgica. Supplementum

Volym

66

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Neurology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0065-1419