Brain Function Remodeling
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Nucleosome Remodeling
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2020
Nucleosomes are the basic units of chromatin compaction. Each nucleosome consists of the DNA bound tightly around a histone core, which makes the DNA inaccessible to DNA binding proteins such as DNA polymerase and RNA polymerase. Hence, the fundamental problem is to ensure access to DNA when appropriate, despite the compact and protective chromatin structure. Nucleosome remodeling complex Eukaryotic cells have specialized enzymes called ATP-dependent nucleosome remodeling enzymes. These enzymes...
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Murine Spinotrapezius Model to Assess the Impact of Arteriolar Ligation on Microvascular Function and Remodeling
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We demonstrate a novel arterial ligation model in murine spinotrapezius muscle, including a step-by-step procedure and description of required instrumentation. We describe the surgery and relevant outcome measurements relating to vascular network remodeling and functional vasodilation using intravital and confocal microscopy.
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Using Saccadometry with Deep Brain Stimulation to Study Normal and Pathological Brain Function
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2016
This paper describes the use of quantitative measurement of eye movements in conjunction with stimulation of focal areas of the deep brain in order to study physiology, pathophysiology, and the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation.
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Coherence between Brain Cortical Function and Neurocognitive Performance during Changed Gravity Conditions
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The effect of weightlessness and hypergravity on both hemodynamic and electrophysiological processes in the brain is going to be followed during parabolic flight by EEG and NIRS techniques. A feasibility study of a more complex experiment, which is planned to carry out during medium- and long-term space flight.
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A Model of Cardiac Remodeling Through Constriction of the Abdominal Aorta in Rats
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2016
A rat model of abdominal aortic constriction that induces cardiac hypertrophy and remodeling is described. An efficient, highly-reproducible, and minimally-invasive method is used to provide a simple yet useful platform for research in myocardial hypertrophy and dysfunction.
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Altered patterns of neural signaling can change synaptic strength, meaning the effectiveness of communication between connected nerve cells. Repeated activity, learning, development, or environmental demands may therefore reinforce some signaling routes while weakening or modifying others. These synaptic adjustments provide a cellular basis for changes in network activity and help explain how experience can influence brain function.
When injury disrupts an established route, connected brain regions may recruit alternate pathways to support affected functions. This reorganization does not necessarily restore the original circuit; instead, activity may be redistributed across networks that remain available. In medicine, this principle helps explain why rehabilitation after stroke or trauma can influence recovery by repeatedly engaging functions affected by the injury.
Experience, development, environmental demands, injury, rehabilitation, learning, and repeated practice can all influence remodeling. These influences may support useful functional changes, but reorganization is not always beneficial. The overview identifies chronic pain and seizure-related network activity as examples of maladaptive changes, making the direction and consequences of network adaptation important medical concerns.
Repeated practice can influence the neural changes that support recovery by repeatedly engaging affected functions and their connected networks. Rehabilitation after stroke or trauma therefore uses practice as a way to encourage functional reorganization rather than relying only on spontaneous change. Its relevance lies in shaping activity patterns that may support recovery while researchers monitor the possibility of maladaptive remodeling.
Medical research examines remodeling to understand recovery programs for stroke and trauma and to investigate neurological and psychiatric disorders. Researchers also study how therapies, behavior, and assistive technologies may improve function. This work connects changes in brain activity and network organization with clinically relevant goals, including supporting recovery and limiting unwanted adaptations such as chronic pain or seizure-related activity.
Studying remodeling can help researchers separate potentially beneficial reorganization from maladaptive network changes. Improved function after rehabilitation, learning, or repeated practice represents one important outcome, while chronic pain or seizure-related network activity illustrates a harmful direction. This distinction supports research aimed at developing therapies, behavioral approaches, or assistive technologies that improve function without reinforcing damaging activity patterns.