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Traumatic brain injury (TBI), causing neurological deficit in 70% of survivors, still lacks a clinically proven effective therapy. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has emerged as a promising electroceutical therapeutic intervention possibly suitable for TBI; however, due to limited animal studies the mechanisms and optimal parameters are unknown. Using a mouse model of TBI we evaluated the acute effects of the anodal tDCS on cerebral blood flow (CBF) and tissue oxygenation, and assessed its efficacy in long-term neurologic recovery. TBI was induced by controlled cortical impact leading to cortical and hippocampal lesions with reduced CBF and developed hypoxia in peri-contusion area. Sham animals were subjected to craniotomy only. Repetitive anodal tDCS (0.1 mA/15 min) or sham stimulation was done over 4 weeks for four consecutive days with 3-day intervals, beginning 1 or 3 weeks after TBI. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) revealed that anodal tDCS causes an increase in regional cortical CBF in both traumatized and Sham animals. On microvascular level, using in-vivo two-photon microscopy (2PLSM), we have shown that anodal tDCS induces arteriolar dilatation leading to an increase in capillary flow velocity and tissue oxygenation in both traumatized and Sham animals. Repetitive anodal tDCS significantly improved motor and cognitive neurologic outcome. The group with stimulation starting 3 weeks after TBI showed better recovery compared with stimulation starting 1 week after TBI, suggesting that the late post-traumatic period is more optimal for anodal tDCS.
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Supported by NIH-NIGMS P20GM109089 and RSF № 17-75-20069.
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Bragina, O.A., Lara, D.A., Nemoto, E.M., Shuttleworth, C.W., Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, O.V., Bragin, D.E. (2018). Increases in Microvascular Perfusion and Tissue Oxygenation via Vasodilatation After Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Healthy and Traumatized Mouse Brain. In: Thews, O., LaManna, J., Harrison, D. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XL. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1072. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91287-5_5
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