Naser Amini, Nasim Vousooghi, Mahmoudreza Hadjighassem, Mehrdad Bakhtiyari, Neda Mousavi, Hosein Safakheil, Leila Jafari, Arash Sarveazad, Abazar Yari, Sara Ramezani, Faezeh Faghihi, Mohammad Taghi Joghataei
Kernicterus is a neurological syndrome associated with indirect bilirubin accumulation and damages to the basal ganglia, cerebellum and brain stem nuclei particularly the cochlear nucleus. To mimic haemolysis in a rat model such that it was similar to what is observed in a preterm human, we injected phenylhydrazine in 7-day-old rats to induce haemolysis and then infused sulfisoxazole into the same rats at day 9 to block bilirubin binding sites in the albumin. We have investigated the effectiveness of human adiposity-derived stem cells as a therapeutic paradigm for perinatal neuronal repair in a kernicterus animal model...
May 2016: Neurotoxicity Research