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01-11-2016 | Review Paper
Pathogenesis of cerebral palsy through the prism of immune regulation of nervous tissue homeostasis: literature review
Authors:
Natalya Lisovska, Zholtay Daribayev, Yevgeny Lisovskyy, Kenzhe Kussainova, Lana Austin, Sholpan Bulekbayeva
Published in:
Child's Nervous System
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Issue 11/2016
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Abstract
Background
The cerebral palsy is highly actual issue of pediatrics, causing significant neurological disability. Though the great progress in the neuroscience has been recently achieved, the pathogenesis of cerebral palsy is still poorly understood.
Methods
In this work, we reviewed available experimental and clinical data concerning the role of immune cells in pathogenesis of cerebral palsy. Maintaining of homeostasis in nervous tissue and its transformation in case of periventricular leukomalacia were analyzed.
Results
The reviewed data demonstrate involvement of immune regulatory cells in the formation of nervous tissue imbalance and chronicity of inborn brain damage. The supported opinion, that periventricular leukomalacia is not a static phenomenon, but developing process, encourages our optimism about the possibility of its correction.
Conclusions
The further studies of changes of the nervous and immune systems in cerebral palsy are needed to create fundamentally new directions of the specific therapy and individual schemes of rehabilitation.