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The Pathogenesis of Neurotrauma Indicates Targets for Neuroprotective Therapies

2021· article· en· W3123890269 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Neuropharmacology · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpinal Cord Injury Research
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeuroprotectionAstrogliosisInflammationMedicineWhite matterTraumatic brain injuryNeuroinflammationPathogenesisNeuroscienceMyelinSpinal cord injuryStroke (engine)MicrogliaEdemaSpinal cordPathologyPharmacologyImmunologyCentral nervous systemBiologyMagnetic resonance imagingSurgeryInternal medicine

Abstract

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The spinal cord injury (SCI) initiates an extraordinarily protracted disease with 3 phases; acute, inflammatory, and resolution that are restricted to the cavity of injury (COI) or arachnoiditis by a unique CNS reaction against the severity of destructive inflammation. While the severity of inflammation involving the white matter is fueled by a potently immunogenic activity of damaged myelin, its sequestration in the COI and its continuity with the cerebrospinal fluid of the subdural space allow anti-inflammatory therapeutics infused subdurally to inhibit phagocytic macrophage infiltration and thus provide neuroprotection. The role of astrogliosis in containing and ultimately in eliminating severe destructive inflammation post-trauma appears obvious but is not yet sufficiently understood to use in therapeutic neuroprotective and neuroregenerative strategies. An apparent antiinflammatory activity of reactive astrocytes is paralleled by their active role in removing excess edema fluid in blood-brain barrier damaged by inflammation. Recently elucidated pathogenesis of neurotrauma, including SCI, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and stroke, calls for the following principal therapeutic steps in its treatment leading to the recovery of neurologic function: (1) inhibition and elimination of destructive inflammation from the COI with accompanying reduction of vasogenic edema, (2) insertion into the COI of a functional bridge supporting the crossing of regenerating axons, (3) enabling regeneration of axons to their original synaptic targets by temporary safe removal of myelin in targeted areas of white matter, (4) in vivo, systematic monitoring of the consecutive therapeutic steps. The focus of this paper is on therapeutic step 1.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.244
Threshold uncertainty score0.492

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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Open science0.0000.000
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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.100
GPT teacher head0.433
Teacher spread0.333 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it