Epidural electrical stimulation effectively restores locomotion function in rats with complete spinal cord injury

脊髓 脊髓损伤 刺激 医学 功能性电刺激 神经假体 硬膜外腔 植入 神经科学 解剖 生物医学工程 麻醉 外科 生物 物理医学与康复 内科学 精神科
作者
Xinran Ji,Peifu Tang,Song Wang,Licheng Zhang,Haitao Fu,Junhao Deng,Gaoxiang Xu,Jia Li
出处
期刊:Neural Regeneration Research [Medknow Publications]
卷期号:16 (3): 573-573 被引量:15
标识
DOI:10.4103/1673-5374.290905
摘要

Epidural electrical stimulation can restore limb motor function after spinal cord injury by reactivating the surviving neural circuits. In previous epidural electrical stimulation studies, single electrode sites and continuous tetanic stimulation have often been used. With this stimulation, the body is prone to declines in tolerance and locomotion coordination. In the present study, rat models of complete spinal cord injury were established by vertically cutting the spinal cord at the T8 level to eliminate disturbance from residual nerve fibers, and were then subjected to epidural electrical stimulation. The flexible extradural electrode had good anatomical topology and matched the shape of the spinal canal of the implanted segment. Simultaneously, the electrode stimulation site was able to be accurately applied to the L2–3 and S1 segments of the spinal cord. To evaluate the biocompatibility of the implanted epidural electrical stimulation electrodes, GFAP/Iba-1 double-labeled immunofluorescence staining was performed on the spinal cord below the electrodes at 7 days after the electrode implantation. Immunofluorescence results revealed no significant differences in the numbers or morphologies of microglia and astrocytes in the spinal cord after electrode implantation, and there was no activated Iba-1+ cell aggregation, indicating that the implant did not cause an inflammatory response in the spinal cord. Rat gait analysis showed that, at 3 days after surgery, gait became coordinated in rats with spinal cord injury under burst stimulation. The regained locomotion could clearly distinguish the support phase and the swing phase and dynamically adjust with the frequency of stimulus distribution. To evaluate the matching degree between the flexible epidural electrode (including three stimulation contacts), vertebral morphology, and the level of the epidural site of the stimulation electrode, micro-CT was used to scan the thoracolumbar vertebrae of rats before and after electrode implantation. Based on the experimental results of gait recovery using three-site stimulation electrodes at L2–3 and S1 combined with burst stimulation in a rat model of spinal cord injury, epidural electrical stimulation is a promising protocol that needs to be further explored. This study was approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of Chinese PLA General Hospital (approval No. 2019-X15-39) on April 19, 2019.
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