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Abstract #2314

MiR-155 ablation protects spinal cord (SC) from damage in a mouse model of ischemic SC injury

Anna Bratasz 1 , Esmerina Tili 2,3 , Xiaomei Meng 2 , Jean-Jacques Michaille 4,5 , Lamia Bouhliqah 6 , Phillip G Popovich 7 , Cynthia Mcallister 8 , D Michele Basso 9 , Jos J Otero 10 , Claudia Kirsch 11 , Richard Burry 7 , Kimerly A Powell 1 , Peter Mohler 12 , Carlo M Croce 4 , and Hamdy Awad 2

1 Small Animal Imaging Core, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 2 Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 3 Department of Molecular Virology, The Ohio State Univeristy, Ohio, United States, 4 Department of Molecular Virology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 5 Universit de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 6 Department of ENT, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 7 Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 8 Nationwide Children Hospital, Ohio, United States, 9 School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 10 Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 11 Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 12 Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States

MiR-155 ablation was evaluated for its protective effect on ischemic cord injury (SC) in a mouse model of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair. MR imaging was used for monitoring the paralysis event in wild type and miR-155 knockout mice. MiR-155-/- mice resulted in reduced number and delayed paralysis events. There was a strong correlation between edema volume and T2 relaxation time values of the SC grey matter in paralyzed versus non-paralyzed mice. Edema was correlated with histological observation of gray matter damage. We believe that reducing miR-155 upregulation after TAAA may be useful for reducing paralysis after surgery.

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