Neurons, Astrocytes, & Brain

Albalawi F, Lu W, Beckel JM, Lim JC, McCaughey SA, Mitchell CH. The P2X7 receptor primes IL-1 and the NLRP3 inflammasome in astrocytes exposed to mechanical strain. Front Cell Neurosci 11:227, 2017.

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Andrews AM, Lutton EM, Merkel SF, Razmpour R, Ramirez SH. Mechanical injury induces brain endothelial-derived microvesicle release: implications for cerebral vascular injury during traumatic brain injury. Front Cell Neurosci 10:43, 2016.

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Arundine M, Aarts M, Lau A, Tymianski M. Vulnerability of central neurons to secondary insults after in vitro mechanical stretch. J Neurosci 24(37):8106-8123, 2004.

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Arundine M, Chopra GK, Wrong A, Lei S, Aarts MM, MacDonald JF, Tymianski M. Enhanced vulnerability to NMDA toxicity in sublethal traumatic neuronal injury in vitro. Journal of Neurotrauma 20(12):1377-1395, 2003.

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Berretta A, Gowing EK, Jasoni CL, Clarkson AN. Sonic hedgehog stimulates neurite outgrowth in a mechanical stretch model of reactive-astrogliosis. Sci Rep 6:21896, 2016.

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Bhattacharya MR, Bautista DM, Wu K, Haeberle H, Lumpkin EA, Julius D. Radial stretch reveals distinct populations of mechanosensitive mammalian somatosensory neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(50):20015-20020, 2008.

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Borderie D, Carrete A, Castoldi F, Chierto E, Cristinziano  G, Etienne F, Jafarian-Tehrani M, Massaad C, Meffre D, Morrison B,  Rannou F, Sapone F, Simon A. Mechanical Stretch of High  Magnitude Provokes Axonal Injury, Elongation of Paranodal Junctions, and  Signaling Alterations in Oligodendrocytes, Mol Neurobiol. 56(6):4231-4248,  2019.

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Gladman SJ, Huang W, Lim SN, Dyall SC, Boddy S, Kang JX, Knight MM, Priestley JV, Michael-Titus AT. Improved outcome after peripheral nerve injury in mice with increased levels of endogenous ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. J Neurosci 32(2):563-571, 2012.

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Gladman SJ, Ward RE, Michael-Titus AT, Knight MM, Priestley JV. The effect of mechanical strain or hypoxia on cell death in subpopulations of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons in vitro. Neuroscience 171(2):577-587, 2010.

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Higgins S, Lee JS, Ha L, Lim JY. Inducing neurite outgrowth by mechanical cell stretch. Biores Open Access 2(3):212-6, 2013.

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Lau A, Arundine M, Sun HS, Jones M, Tymianski M. Inhibition of caspase-mediated apoptosis by peroxynitrite in traumatic brain injury. J Neurosci 26(45):11540-11553, 2006.

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Ostrow LW, Sachs F. Mechanosensation and endothelin in astrocytes-hypothetical roles in CNS pathophysiology. Brain Research Reviews 48(3):488-508, 2005.

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Ostrow LW, Suchyna TM, Sachs F. Stretch induced endothelin-1 secretion by adult rat astrocytes involves calcium influx via stretch-activated ion channels (SACs). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 410(1):81-6, 2011.

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Parker K, Berretta A, Saenger S, Sivaramakrishnan M, Shirley SA, Metzger F, Clarkson AN. PEGylated insulin-like growth factor-I affords protection and facilitates recovery of lost functions post-focal ischemia. Sci Rep 7(1):241, 2017.

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Rogers R, Dharsee M, Ackloo S, Flanagan JG. Proteomics analyses of activated human optic nerve head lamina cribrosa cells following biomechanical strain. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 53(7):3806-16, 2012.

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Rogers RS, Dharsee M, Ackloo S, Sivak JM, Flanagan JG. Proteomics analyses of human optic nerve head astrocytes following biomechanical strain. Mol Cell Proteomics 11(2):M111.012302, 2012.

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Uchida K, Nakajima H, Takamura T, Furukawa S, Kobayashi S, Yayama T, Baba H. Gene expression profiles of neurotrophic factors in rat cultured spinal cord cells under cyclic tensile stress. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33(24):2596-2604, 2008.

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