Matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity in the cerebrospinal fluid and serum of dogs with acute spinal cord trauma from intervertebral disk disease. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: To detect matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 in serum and CSF and determine relationships between MMP activity and severity of disease, duration of clinical signs, and duration of hospitalization in dogs with acute intervertebral disk disease (IVDD). ANIMALS: 35 dogs with acute IVDD and 8 clinically normal control dogs. PROCEDURE: CSF and serum were collected from affected and control dogs. Zymography was used to detect MMP-9. RESULTS: Activity of MMP-9 in CSF was detected in 6 of 35 dogs with IVDD; activity was significantly more common in dogs with duration of signs < 24 hours. Paraplegic dogs were more likely to have MMP-9 activity in the CSF than non-paraplegic dogs. No significant difference in hospitalization time was detected in dogs with IVDD between those with and without activity of MMP-9 in the CSF. Serum MMP-9 was detected more frequently in dogs with IVDD than in control dogs. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Data were consistent with results of experimental rodent spinal cord injury studies that indicate that MMP-9 is expressed early during secondary injury.

published proceedings

  • Am J Vet Res

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Levine, J. M., Ruaux, C. G., Bergman, R. L., Coates, J. R., Steiner, J. M., & Williams, D. A.

citation count

  • 65

complete list of authors

  • Levine, Jonathan M||Ruaux, Craig G||Bergman, Robert L||Coates, Joan R||Steiner, Jörg M||Williams, David A

publication date

  • February 2006