Recent Research Findings

By Author

Lifshitz, J, BJ Kelley, JT Povlishock. (2007) Perisomatic Thalamic Axotomy After Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury is Associated with Atrophy Rather Than Cell Death. J. Neuropath and Exp. Neurol. 66: 218-229.

Lifshitz, J, BM Witgen, MS Grady. (2007) Acute Cognitive Impairment After Lateral Fluid Percussion Brain Injury Recovers by One Month: Evaluation by Conditioned Fear. Behav. Brain Res. 177: 347-357.

Massey JM, Hubscher CH, Wagoner MR, Decker JA, Amps J, Silver J, Onifer SM: Chondroitinase ABC digestion of the perineuronal net promotes functional collateral sprouting in the cuneate nucleus following cervical spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuroscience, 26:4406-4414, 2006.

Cottrell BL, Perez-Abadia G, Onifer SM, Magnuson DS, Burke DA, Grossi FV, Francois CG, Barker JH, Maldonado C: Neuroregeneration in composite tissue allografts: Effect of low dose FK506 and mycophenolate mofetil immunotherapy. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 118:615-623, 2006.

Willson CA, Foster RD, Onifer SM, Whittemore SR, Miranda JD: EphB3 receptor and its ligand expression in the adult rat brain. Journal of Molecular Histology, 37:369-380, 2006.

Reed WR, Shum-Siu A, Onifer SM, Magnuson DSK: Inter-enlargement pathways in the ventrolateral funiculus of the adult rat spinal cord. Neuroscience, 142:1195-1207, 2006.

Beaumont E, Onifer SM, Reed WR, Magnuson DSK: Magnetically-evoked inter-enlargement response: An assessment of ascending propriospinal fibers following spinal cord injury. Experimental Neurology, 201:428-440, 2006.

Burke DA, Magnuson DSK, Nunn CD, Fentress KG, Wilson ML, Shum-Siu AH, Moore MC, Turner LE, King WW, Onifer SM: Use of environmentally enriched housing for rats with spinal cord injury: The need for standardization. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 46:35-42, 2007.

By Title (Acrobat)

• Acute cognitive impairment after lateral fluid percussion brain injury recovers by 1 month: Evaluation by conditioned fear response (pdf)
• Cytoskeletal protein degradation and neurodegeneration evolves differently in males and females following experimental head injury (pdf)
• Genetic manipulation of intraspinal plasticity after spinal cord injury alters the severity of autonomic dysreflexia (pdf)
• Identification and characterization of PEBP as a calpain substrate (pdf)
• Mechanoporation induced by diffuse traumatic brain injury: An irreversible or reversible response to injury? (pdf)
• Neuroimmunophilin Ligand V-10,367 is neuroprotective after 24-hour delayed administration in a mouse model of diffuse traumatic brain injury (pdf)
• Neuroprotection and Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Reappraisal (pdf)
• Perisomatic thalamic axotomy after diffuse traumatic brain injury is associated with atrophy rather than cell death (pdf)
• Peroxynitrite-mediated protein nitration and lipid peroxidation in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury (pdf)
• Peroxynitrite-mediated oxidative damage to brain mitochondria: Protective effects of peroxynitrite scavengers (pdf)
• Relationship of calpain-mediated proteolysis to the expression of axonal and synaptic plasticity markers following traumatic brain injury in mice (pdf)
• Response of the contralateral hippocampus to lateral fluid percussion brain injury (pdf)
• Role of peroxynitrite in secondary oxidative damage after spinal cord injury (pdf)
• Segmental organization of spinal reflexes mediating autonomic dysreflexia after spinal cord injury (pdf)
• Temporal characterization of mitochondrial bioenergetics after spinal cord injury (pdf)
• Temporal-spatial dynamics in oligodendrocyte and glial progenitor cell numbers throughout ventrolateral white matter following contusion spinal cord injury (pdf)
• Temporal relationship of peroxynitrite-induced oxidative damage, calpain-mediated cytoskeletal degradation and neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury (pdf)
• The Novel Calpain Inhibitor SJA6017 improves functional outcome after delayed administration in a mouse model of diffuse brain injury (pdf)
• Time course of post-traumatic mitochondrial oxidative damage and dysfunction in a mouse model of focal traumatic brainin jury: Implications for neuroprotective therapy (pdf)

In Press

Onifer SM, Nunn CD, Decker JA, Payne BN, Wagoner, MR, Puckett AH, Massey JM, Armstrong J, Kaddumi EG, Fentress KG, Wells MJ, Calloway CC, Schnell JT, Whitaker CM, Burke DA, Hubscher CH: Loss and spontaneous recovery of forelimb evoked potentials in both the adult rat cuneate nucleus and somatosensory cortex following contusive cervical spinal cord injury. Experimental Neurology, in press, 2007.

Titsworth WL, Onifer SM, Liu N, Xu X-M: Focal phospholipases A2 group III injections induce cervical white matter injury and functional deficits with delayed recovery concomitant with Schwann cell remyelination. Experimental Neurology, in press, 2007.

Kaas JH, Qi H-X, Burish M, Gharbawie O, Onifer SM, Massey JM: Cortical and subcortical plasticity in the brains of humans, primates, and rats and primates after damage to sensory afferents in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord. Experimental Neurology, in press, 2007.