Spinal cord injury is a very serious, complex, and life changing injury for which today's medicine still does not have an efficient treatment. It is only possible to mitigate the consequences of this injury and the pathological processes associated with it. Neural stem cell transplantation has immunosuppressive effects in the pathology of spinal cord injury and promotes regeneration. mTOR kinase is a member of the crucial intracellular PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway, making it a suitable target for therapeutic intervention and immunosuppressants such as rapamycin. mTOR signalling is important for neural stem cells and in the pathology of spinal cord injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the mTOR pathway in differentiation of stem cells into neuronal phenotype. Rapamycin was applied to in vitro culture of neural progenitors. Immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting techniques were used to study the effect of this inhibition on the cell phenotype and on the activity of the mTOR pathway. Using the rat model of spinal cord injury in vivo, immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting techniques were used to evaluate the impact of rapamycin inhibition on the mTOR pathway, autophagy, and cytokine production by cells in the damaged tissue. The results show that the mTOR pathway plays role...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:452874 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Šintáková, Kristýna |
| Contributors | Jendelová, Pavla, Dráber, Peter |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
Page generated in 0.0012 seconds