PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES

  • Peripheral neuropathy is the result of damages of the peripheral nervous system. These troubles can be caused either by a trauma or diseases as for example diabetes.
    NEUROFIT proposes animal and cellular models able to evaluate the neuroprotective activity of your coumpounds.


    VINCRISTINE : model of chemotherapy induced neuropathy

    Vincristine is widely used as an antimitotic drug for treating various cancers. However, its employment is often limited by their neurotoxicity.
    Neurofit developed this model to assess the neuroprotective properties of compounds aiming to counteract chemotherapy side effects.




    • Purified cultures of sensory :
      Vincristine induced sensory neurons death.
      NGF is able to protect sensory neurons against this injury.


    • Co-cultures of sensory neurons and Schwann cells :
      Vincristine induces cell death in sensory neurons in a dose dependant manner.
      At each dose tested, NGF at 5 ng/ml is able to protect neurons against the vincristine damage.

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