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Zhang Z, Liu Y, Zhu X, Wei L, Zhu J, Shi K, Wang G, Pan L. Sciatic nerve leachate of cattle causes neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells via ERK1/2 signaling pathway. J Vet Sci 2018; 19:512-518. [PMID: 29695145 PMCID: PMC6070593 DOI: 10.4142/jvs.2018.19.4.512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that the sciatic nerve has neurotrophic activity, and nerve regeneration, differentiation, and axon outgrowth can be modulated by different sciatic nerve preparations. However, numerous animals may have to be sacrificed to obtain enough sciatic nerves to make a sciatic nerve preparation. Some studies have demonstrated that the role of sciatic nerve preparations in neural differentiation depends on the neurotrophins that Schwann cells secrete, and these factors are highly conserved among different species. To reduce the use of experimental animals, in this study, we made a leachate by using the sciatic nerve of cattle and explored its effect on neuronal differentiation of rat PC12 cells (a useful model for studying neuronal differentiation). Results showed the neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells treated with the cattle sciatic nerve leachate for 3, 6, and 9 days was significantly improved, and the expressions of β3-tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 (two neuron-specific proteins) were increased. Moreover, the ERK1/2 signaling pathway was activated after PC12 cells were incubated with cattle sciatic nerve leachate for 9 days. Thus, a sciatic nerve leachate obtained from cattle can effectively induce neuronal differentiation of rat PC12 cells via ERK1/2 signaling pathway.
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- Ziqiang Zhang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471023, China
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Mackenzie SJ, Yi JL, Singla A, Russell TM, Osterhout DJ, Calancie B. Cauda equina repair in the rat: Part 3. Axonal regeneration across Schwann cell-Seeded collagen foam. Muscle Nerve 2017; 57:E78-E84. [PMID: 28746726 DOI: 10.1002/mus.25751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Treatments for patients with cauda equina injury are limited. METHODS In this study, we first used retrograde labeling to determine the relative contributions of cauda equina motor neurons to intrinsic and extrinsic rat tail muscles. Next, we transected cauda equina ventral roots and proceeded to bridge the proximal and distal stumps with either a type I collagen scaffold coated in laminin (CL) or a collagen-laminin scaffold that was also seeded with Schwann cells (CLSC). Regeneration was assessed by way of serial retrograde labeling. RESULTS After accounting for the axonal contributions to intrinsic vs. extrinsic tail muscles, we noted a higher degree of double labeling in the CLSC group (58.0 ± 39.6%) as compared with the CL group (27.8 ± 16.0%; P = 0.02), but not the control group (33.5 ± 18.2%; P = 0.10). DISCUSSION Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of using CLSCs in cauda equina injury repair. Muscle Nerve 57: E78-E84, 2018.
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- Samuel J Mackenzie
- Department of Neuroscience, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, IHP 1213, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York, 13210, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, IHP 1213, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York, 13210, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, IHP 1213, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York, 13210, USA
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Tosaki T, Kamiya H, Yasuda Y, Naruse K, Kato K, Kozakae M, Nakamura N, Shibata T, Hamada Y, Nakashima E, Oiso Y, Nakamura J. Reduced NGF secretion by Schwann cells under the high glucose condition decreases neurite outgrowth of DRG neurons. Exp Neurol 2008; 213:381-7. [PMID: 18675804 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2008] [Revised: 06/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/20/2008] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Schwann cells (SCs) have been supposed to play prominent roles in axonal regeneration under various diseases. Here, to evaluate the direct interaction between SCs and dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons under a diabetic condition, the effects of Schwann cell-conditioned media on neurite outgrowth of DRG neurons were investigated. METHODS Immortalized mouse Schwann cells (IMS) were cultured under 5.5 mM glucose (NG) or 30 mM glucose (HG) conditions for 4 days. IMS-conditioned media (IMS-media) were added to the culture media of neurons isolated from 8-week-old DDY mice. Neurons were cultured for 48 h with or without mouse recombinant NGF (mrNGF) or nerve growth factor (NGF) neutralizing antibody. The concentrations of NGF in IMS-media by ELISA and neurite outgrowth by a computed image analysis system were evaluated. RESULTS Neurite outgrowth was significantly enhanced by IMS-media (IMS-media (-): 177+/-177 microm, IMS-media (+): 1648+/-726). The neurite outgrowth cultured with IMS-media obtained under the HG condition was significantly reduced compared with that under the NG condition (NG: 1474+/-652, HG: 734+/-331). The NGF concentrations were significantly lower in IMS-media under the HG condition than in those under the NG condition. The accelerated neurite outgrowth by IMS-media was inhibited by NGF neutralizing antibody. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that SCs play important roles in neurite outgrowth of DRG neurons, and that the decreased NGF secretion by SCs under the diabetic condition would cause a defect of axonal regeneration, resulting in the development of diabetic neuropathy.
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- Takahiro Tosaki
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Leclere PG, Norman E, Groutsi F, Coffin R, Mayer U, Pizzey J, Tonge D. Impaired axonal regeneration by isolectin B4-binding dorsal root ganglion neurons in vitro. J Neurosci 2007; 27:1190-9. [PMID: 17267575 PMCID: PMC6673184 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5089-06.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The subpopulation of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons recognized by Griffonia simplicifolia isolectin B4 (IB4) differ from other neurons by expressing receptors for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) rather than neurotrophins. Additionally, IB4-labeled neurons do not express the laminin receptor, alpha7-integrin (Gardiner et al., 2005), necessary for optimal axonal regeneration in the peripheral nervous system. In cultures of dissociated DRG neurons of adult mice on laminin, robust spontaneous neurite outgrowth from IB4-negative neurons occurs and is strongly enhanced by previous axotomy. In contrast, IB4-labeled neurons show little neurite outgrowth and do not express GAP 43, even after axotomy or culture with GDNF. Moreover, growth of their axons through collagen gels is impaired compared with other DRG neurons. To determine whether the sparse neurite outgrowth of IB4-labeled neurons is attributable to lack of integrin expression, DRG cultures were infected with a herpes simplex 1 vector encoding alpha7-integrin, but its forced expression failed to promote neurite outgrowth in either IB4-labeled or other DRG neurons or in cultured adult retinal ganglion cells. Forced coexpression of both alpha7-integrin and GAP 43 also failed to promote neurite outgrowth in IB4-labeled neurons. In addition, cultured sciatic nerve segments were found to release much lower levels of GDNF, demonstrated by ELISA, than nerve growth factor. These findings together with their impaired intrinsic axonal regeneration capacity may contribute to the known vulnerability of the IB4-labeled population of DRG neurons to peripheral nerve injury.
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- Pascal G. Leclere
- The Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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- The Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology, University College London, London W1T 4JF, United Kingdom, and
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- Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology, University College London, London W1T 4JF, United Kingdom, and
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- Biomedical Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR14 7TJ, United Kingdom
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- The Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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- The Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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Malavé C, Villegas GM, Hernández M, Martínez JC, Castillo C, Suárez de Mata Z, Villegas R. Role of glypican-1 in the trophic activity on PC12 cells induced by cultured sciatic nerve conditioned medium: identification of a glypican-1-neuregulin complex. Brain Res 2003; 983:74-83. [PMID: 12914968 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(03)03031-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Glypican-1 is an extracellular matrix component found by microsequencing in a medium conditioned by cultured rat-sciatic nerves (CM). This CM was concentrated by ultrafiltration and fractionated by quaternary ammonium chromatography, followed by Hi-Trap blue affinity chromatography to obtain the active fraction B1.2. Previously, we have reported a 54 kDa neuregulin (NRG) in the same B1.2 fraction [Villegas et al., Brain Res. 852 (2001) 304]. The effect of Glypican-1 on the neuron-like differentiation of PC12 cells was investigated by immunoprecipitation, Western blot and cellular image analysis. Removal of glypican-1 by immunoprecipitation with increasing concentrations of specific antibodies revealed a gradual decrease of the differentiation activity of fraction B1.2, which paralleled the results obtained by removal of the 54 kDa NRG protein. Colorless native electrophoresis and Western blot analysis was used to identify a glypican-1-NRG protein complex, which could be afterwards separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into its individual components. Additionally, it was demonstrated that glypican-1, in cooperation with the 54 kDa NRG, is involved in the neuronal-like differentiation of PC12 cells and could play an important role on the regeneration responses of peripheral nerves.
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- Caridad Malavé
- Centro de Biociencias, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Apartado 17606, 1015A, Caracas, Venezuela.
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Torres PMM, Guilarducci CVV, Franco AS, de Araujo EG. Sciatic conditioned medium increases survival, proliferation and differentiation of retinal cells in culture. Int J Dev Neurosci 2002; 20:11-20. [PMID: 12008070 DOI: 10.1016/s0736-5748(02)00005-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Many evidences clearly demonstrate that Schwann cells provide trophic support for neurons. Different cytokines, including neurotrophins (NTs), are produced and released by Schwann cells. These trophic molecules play an important role on neuronal survival either during the development or during adult life. Cytokines have also a pivotal role on neuronal regeneration after lesions occurring during pathological conditions. The aim of this work was to study the effect of sciatic conditioned medium (SCM) on rat retinal cells maintained in culture. Our results show that treatment with SCM obtained after 14 days in vitro (SCM 14 day) induced a three-fold increase in protein content of the culture after 48 h in vitro and this value remained equally high up to 72 h. This effect was totally blocked either by addition of 30 microM BAPTA-AM, an intracellular calcium chelator, 15 microM fluorodeoxyuridine, an inhibitor of cell division, or 10 microM genistein (geni) plus 1.25 microM chelerythrine chloride (CC), the two last ones inhibitors of tyrosine kinases and protein kinase C, respectively. SCM induced an increase in [(3)H]-choline uptake and [(3)H]-thymidine incorporation of retinal cells. SCM also stimulated an increase in cytoplasmic processes outgrowth of retinal cells and survival of retinal ganglion cells. Our results clearly suggest that soluble molecules released by sciatic nerve fragments are able to increase the proliferation and survival of retinal cells in culture.
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- Patrícia Maria Mendonça Torres
- Departamento de Neurobiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, CP 100180, 24001-970 Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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Castillo C, Carreño F, Villegas GM, Villegas R. Ionic currents in PC12 cells differentiated into neuron-like cells by a cultured-sciatic nerve conditioned medium. Brain Res 2001; 911:181-92. [PMID: 11511389 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02683-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The present work deals with the identification of the ionic currents found in PC12 cells differentiated into neuron-like cells by a 9-11-day cultured-sciatic nerve conditioned medium (CM). PC12 whole-cell currents were measured after chronic exposure to CM. The results obtained in these CM-treated cells reveal that the functional expression of Ca(2+) currents is increased, that Na+ currents are not affected, and that a transient K+ current and a K+ delayed rectifier (K+ dr) current are increased. The combination of nifedipine and omega-conotoxin GVIA (omega-CgTX) does not block completely the increased functional expression of the Ca(2+) current. The remaining current is blocked by omega-agatoxin TK indicating that P/Q-type channels are additionally contributing to the increase in Ca(2+) current. NGF-treated PC12 cells, used as positive controls, confirm that NGF increases the expression of voltage-dependent Na+ currents and of Ca(2+) currents. In addition, we found that NGF also increases a K+ dr-type current in these cells. The results obtained with the CM might be due to a molecule or a mixture of molecules released into the medium by the 9-11-day cultured sciatic nerves.
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- C Castillo
- Centro de Biociencias y Medicina Molecular, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Apartado 17606, Caracas 1015-A, Venezuela.
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Limb amputation in urodele amphibia is followed by formation of a blastema, which subsequently develops into a complete limb with normal pattern of innervation. In this study, we investigated the effects of axolotl limb blastemas on axonal growth in gels of collagen and extracellular matrix (matrigel). When peripheral nerves with attached dorsal root ganglia were cultured in collagen gels together with blastemas, axonal outgrowth was markedly increased compared with control preparations. Blastemas contain fibroblast growth factors, and may also contain neurotrophic factors such as nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neurotrophin 3, neurotrophin 4, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor and hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, since these factors are expressed in developing limbs in other vertebrates. In collagen gels the neurotrophins and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor stimulated axonal growth, but outgrowing axons were shorter than in co-cultures with blastemas. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor K252a blocked the stimulatory effects of the neurotrophins on axonal growth but had relatively little effect on axonal growth in co-cultures with blastemas. In experiments in which peripheral nerves, with attached dorsal root ganglia, were cultured in matrigel, axons grew towards blastemas over distances of about 1mm. Directed axonal growth even occurred in these co-cultures after addition of high concentrations of all the above neurotrophic factors, suggesting that blastemas may release a different factor which stimulates axonal growth. The results indicate that during early stages of limb regeneration in amphibia, factor(s) are released which are capable of attracting the growth of peripheral nerves and may play an important role in the development of innervation of regenerated limbs. The identity of the factor(s) remains to be determined.
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- D A Tonge
- Neural Damage and Repair Group, Centre for Neuroscience Research, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, SE1 1UL, London, UK.
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Lundborg G. A 25-year perspective of peripheral nerve surgery: evolving neuroscientific concepts and clinical significance. J Hand Surg Am 2000; 25:391-414. [PMID: 10811744 DOI: 10.1053/jhsu.2000.4165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 428] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In spite of an enormous amount of new experimental laboratory data based on evolving neuroscientific concepts during the last 25 years peripheral nerve injuries still belong to the most challenging and difficult surgical reconstructive problems. Our understanding of biological mechanisms regulating posttraumatic nerve regeneration has increased substantially with respect to the role of neurotrophic and neurite-outgrowth promoting substances, but new molecular biological knowledge has so far gained very limited clinical applications. Techniques for clinical approximation of severed nerve ends have reached an optimal technical refinement and new concepts are needed to further increase the results from nerve repair. For bridging gaps in nerve continuity little has changed during the last 25 years. However, evolving principles for immunosuppression may open new perspectives regarding the use of nerve allografts, and various types of tissue engineering combined by bioartificial conduits may also be important. Posttraumatic functional reorganizations occurring in brain cortex are key phenomena explaining much of the inferior functional outcome following nerve repair, and increased knowledge regarding factors involved in brain plasticity may help to further improve the results. Implantation of microchips in the nervous system may provide a new interface between biology and technology and developing gene technology may introduce new possibilities in the manipulation of nerve degeneration and regeneration.
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- G Lundborg
- Department of Hand Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Sweden
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Golding JP, Tonge D. A two-dimensional gel electrophoretic study of proteins synthesized and released by degenerating adult mouse sciatic nerve. Exp Neurol 2000; 162:194-200. [PMID: 10716900 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Previous two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoretic studies of proteins secreted by degenerating mammalian peripheral nerves (Ignatius et al., 1986, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83: 1125-1129; Muller et al., 1986, J. Cell Biol. 102: 393-402) detected the up-regulation of two proteins of 67-70 and 34-37 kDa, although they failed to resolve proteins smaller than about 15 kDa or with isoelectric points greater than 8. In the present study, we have used 2-D gels that can resolve proteins in the molecular mass range 3.6-200 kDa and isoelectric point range 2.4-10.6. This revealed that the incorporation of radiolabel by three diffusible proteins with apparent molecular mass/isoelectric point values of 38/5-6, 27-31/4-5, and 8/>10 was increased in the distal stumps of sciatic nerves 4 days after lesion, while the radiolabel incorporation by a further two proteins (15/5.3 and 12.5-17.5/6.8-7.5) was increased in the distal nerve stump 15 days after lesion. The possible cellular sources of these proteins were assessed by comparing protein secretion from unoperated nerves with nerve segments maintained in culture for 4 days (in which the contribution from recruited macrophages would be expected to be minimal) and segments of nerve that had been frozen and then replaced in situ for 4 days (in which the contribution from nerve sheath cells would be expected to be minimal). This revealed that three of the proteins up-regulated in lesioned nerves (27-31/4-5, 15/5.3, and 12.5-17.5/6.8-7.5) are probably sheath cell products, while the other two (38/5-6 and 8/>10) may be secreted mainly by macrophages (or other cells) that infiltrate the frozen nerve segments. The identity of these proteins and their possible involvement in axonal regeneration remain to be determined.
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- J P Golding
- Physiology Group, King's College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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Zheng M, Kuffler DP. Guidance of regenerating motor axonsin vivo by gradients of diffusible peripheral nerve-derived factors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(20000205)42:2<212::aid-neu5>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Villegas R, Villegas GM, Longart M, Hernández M, Maqueira B, Buonanno A, García R, Castillo C. Neuregulin found in cultured-sciatic nerve conditioned medium causes neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells. Brain Res 2000; 852:305-18. [PMID: 10678757 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)02109-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The present work deals with the search and identification of the molecule or combination of molecules, present in a medium conditioned by cultured rat-sciatic nerves (CM), able to cause neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells. The molecular mass range of the active fraction, as well as the thermostability and heparin affinity of the active component found in previous work, all characteristics shared with neuregulin (NRG) family members, led us to search for a NRG protein in the CM. Nerves were previously cultured for 8 days and the CM collected every 24 h, the following 3 days. The CM was concentrated (30,000 NMWL) and fractionated by quaternary ammonium chromatography and Cibacron blue affinity chromatography. The most active fraction B1.2 was further characterized by heparin affinity chromatography, size exclusion HPLC, Western blotting and immunoprecipitation. Results reveal abundance of NRG mRNA in the cultured nerves, presence of a 54 kDa NRG protein in the CM that increases along fractionation, and progressive diminution of fraction B1.2 differentiation activity on PC12 cells by gradual removal of the NRG protein by immunoprecipitation. The abundance of Schwann cells and the lack of axons in the cultured nerves suggest Schwann cells as the main NRG source, to which fibroblasts and perineurial cells might contribute.
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- R Villegas
- Centro de Biociencias, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Caracas, Venezuela.
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Santos X, Rodrigo J, Hontanilla B, Bilbao G. Evaluation of peripheral nerve regeneration by nerve growth factor locally administered with a novel system. J Neurosci Methods 1998; 85:119-27. [PMID: 9874148 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0270(98)00130-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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An experimental model is presented for the local administration of neurotrophic substances at the site of peripheral nerve lesion. The model consists of a subcutaneously implanted silicone reservoir and a connecting tube with its distal end facing the severed and repaired nerve. Wistar rats (n = 180) were divided into two groups: a control group (saline-treated) (n = 90) and an NGF-treated group (n = 90). After sciatic nerve axotomy, an epineural repair was performed. NGF or saline were injected daily into the subcutaneous reservoir for the first 4 weeks after axotomy and weekly single dose between the 8th and 12th weeks. Both groups were divided into three subgroups of 30 animals each. The animals were sacrificed at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Myelinated and non-myelinated axonal and thickness of myelin sheaths were quantified at the tibialis branch 25 mm distal to the nerve repair site. Axonal counts showed statistically significant differences between the treated and control groups at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Finally, at 4 weeks the myelinated axons in the NGF group had significantly thicker myelin sheaths than in the control group. In comparison with other models of administration of different neurotrophic agents, NGF delivered through this system demonstrates a significant capacity for improving nerve regeneration without the problems inherent in multiple anesthesia, device exchange, or short half-life of the NGF single-dose administration.
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- X Santos
- Unidad de Cirugía Experimental, Hospital Universitario del Aire, Madrid, Spain.
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Sosa IJ, Reyes O, Inserni J, Kuffler DP. Isolation and long-term survival of adult human sensory neurons in vitro. Neurosurgery 1998; 42:681-5; discussion 685-6. [PMID: 9527010 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199803000-00054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether adult human dorsal root ganglion neurons can be isolated and maintained in long-term tissue culture, where they would extend processes. METHODS Dorsal root ganglia were removed from adult human organ donors within 2 hours of clamping the aorta. They were then treated with enzymes for one hour, triturated to dissociate the neurons and their satellite cells, and the individual neurons were then plated in tissue culture dishes in medium containing serum. RESULTS Isolated adult human dorsal root ganglion neurons survive in vitro for more than 2 1/2 months, in the absence of exogenously supplied neurotrophins. where they remain electrically excitable and extend processes, CONCLUSIONS Isolated adult human dorsal root ganglion neurons survive in culture for more than 2 1/2 months, extend processes, and remain electrically excitable, without exogenous neurotrophins. These results suggest that, adult human sensory neurons do not require exogenous neurotrophins for survival and process outgrowth, or that sufficient factors were provided by the small number of satellite cells in the cultures. In addition, the neurons survive well in spite of an initial period of up to 14 hours of hypoxia, between the time the aorta was clamped and when the plated neurons were placed in an incubator with the appropriate O2/CO2 environment.
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- I J Sosa
- Institute of Neurobiology, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
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Lei S, Dryden WF, Smith PA. Regulation of N- and L-type Ca2+ channels in adult frog sympathetic ganglion B cells by nerve growth factor in vitro and in vivo. J Neurophysiol 1997; 78:3359-70. [PMID: 9405550 DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.6.3359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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To examine mechanisms responsible for the long-term regulation of Ca2+-channels in an adult neuron, changes in whole cell Ba2+ current (IBa) were examined in adult bullfrog sympathetic ganglion B cells in vitro. Cells were cultured at low density in defined, serum free medium. After 15 days, total IBa was similar to the initial value, whereas IBa density was reduced by approximately 36%, presumably due to an increase in neuronal surface area. By contrast, IBa density remained constant after 6-15 days in the presence of murine beta-NGF (200 ng/ml), and total IBa was almost doubled. Inclusion of cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C; 10 microM) to inhibit proliferation of nonneuronal cells, did not affect the survival of neurons in the absence of nerve growth factor (NGF) nor did it attenuate IBa. Ara-C did not prevent the effect of NGF on IBa. There were three independent components to the action of NGF; during 6-9 days, it increased omega-conotoxin-GVIA-sensitive N-type IBa (IBa,N); increased nifedipine-sensitive L-type IBa (IBa,L) and decreased inactivation of the total Ba2+ conductance (gBa). The latter effect involved a selective decrease in the amplitude of one of the four kinetic components that describe the inactivation process. Total IBa was also 55.8% larger than control in the somata of B cells acutely dissociated from leopard frogs that had received prior subcutaneous injections of NGF. By contrast, injection of NGF antiserum decreased total IBa by 29.4%. There was less inactivation of gBa in B cells from NGF-injected animals than in cells from animals injected with NGF antiserum (P < 0.001). These data suggest that NGF-like molecule(s) play(s) a role in the maintenance of IBa in an adult amphibian sympathetic neuron; the presence of NGF may allow the neuron to maintain a constant relationship between cell size and current density. They also show that IBa inactivation in an adult neuron can be modulated in a physiologically relevant way by an extracellular ligand.
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- S Lei
- Department of Pharmacology and Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
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Pérez NL, Sosa MA, Kuffler DP. Growth cones turn up concentration gradients of diffusible peripheral target-derived factors. Exp Neurol 1997; 145:196-202. [PMID: 9184121 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Severed peripheral nerve axons grow across a gap in their pathway to regenerate into the distal nerve stump. At the turn of the century this observation led to the proposal that concentration gradients of factors released from the cells of the distal nerve segment orient the growth of the regenerating axons. Recently, several central nervous system target-derived factors have been shown to direct process outgrowth via concentration gradients of the factors during development. The demonstration of target-derived tropic influences in the peripheral nervous system has however remained elusive. We have examined whether concentration gradients of diffusible factors released by the cells of a length of peripheral nerve influence the outgrowth of adult sensory neuron growth cones in vitro. We demonstrate that the growth cones turn and grow up the concentration gradients, providing evidence for the presence of diffusible peripheral target-derived neurotropic factors that can act in the peripheral nervous system.
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- N L Pérez
- Institute of Neurobiology and Department of Physiology, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
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Kuffler DP. Chemoattraction of sensory neuron growth cones by diffusible concentration gradients of acetylcholine. MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY 1996; 28:199-208. [PMID: 8871960 DOI: 10.1007/bf02815223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Axon guidance cues are critical for the development and repair of both the central and peripheral nervous systems. These cues serve to help select the pathways taken by axon growth cones, by attracting or repulsing them. During development and following injury to the adult peripheral nervous system, neurons must extend processes, often over long distances, through a variety of cellular environments composed of innervated and uninnervated cells, to find, recognize, and synapse on their appropriate targets. The responsibility for recognizing and responding to the extensive number of cues that are encountered as axons elongate falls on the growth cones at the tip of the elongating axons. Cajal (1928) proposed that denervated target cells release diffusible factors that assist in orienting the direction of out-growth of peripheral axons. However, it is only relatively recently that experiments to identify the molecules responsible for serving this function, and the molecular mechanisms by which they function, have begun to bear fruit. Gradients of both substrate-bound and diffusible factors have now been shown to play critical roles in directing axon outgrowth. The present experiments were aimed at determining whether the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) can act as a chemoattractant for adult sensory neuron growth cones.
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- D P Kuffler
- Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan 00901, USA
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Tonge DA, Aaronson OS, Golding JP, Jaggers D. Cellular migration and axonal outgrowth from adult mammalian peripheral nerves in vitro. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1996; 29:151-64. [PMID: 8821174 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(199602)29:2<151::aid-neu3>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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It is known that following peripheral nerve transections, sheath cells proliferate and migrate to form a bridge between nerve stumps, which may facilitate axonal regeneration. In the present investigations, cellular migration and axonal outgrowth from nerves of adult mice were studied in vitro using collagen gels. During the first 3 days in culture, profuse migration of fibroblasts and macrophages occurred from the ends of sciatic nerve segments, which had been lesioned in situ a few days prior to explantation, but not from segments of normal nerves. The mechanism of cellular activation in the lesioned nerves was not determined, but migration was blocked by suramin, which inhibits the actions of several growth factors. The migrating cells, which form the bridge tissue, may promote axonal regeneration in two ways. Firstly, axonal outgrowth from isolated intercostal nerves was significantly increased in co-cultures with bridges from lesioned sciatic nerves. This stimulatory effect was inhibited by antibodies to 2.5S nerve growth factor. Secondly, the segments of bridge tissue contracted when removed from animals. It is possible that fibroblasts within the bridge exert traction that would tend to pull the lesioned stumps of peripheral nerve together, as in the healing of skin wounds. The traction may also influence deposition of extracellular matrix materials, such as collagen fibrils, which could orient the growth of the regenerating axons toward the distal nerve stump.
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- D A Tonge
- Biomedical Sciences Division, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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Dobretsov M, Dobretsov A, Kuffler DP. Influence of factors released from sciatic nerve on adult dorsal root ganglion neurons. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1994; 25:1249-66. [PMID: 7815057 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480251007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Previous experiments have shown that medium conditioned (CM) by denervated peripheral nerve contains a process outgrowth promoting factor(s) for cultured adult frog dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons. The present experiments further characterize the influences of these factors on DRG neurons. The growth factors increases average process length by threefold, restricts the number of processes extended from four to two while simultaneously altering the morphology of those processes. Neurons with preexisting processes respond to the factors by significantly increasing the length of 35% of these processes. Only the newly elongated portions of preexisting processes have a morphology typical of factor-induced processes, while the previously extended portions retain their original morphology. The number of processes of these neurons remains unchanged. Although composed of two populations according to size, neurons in both populations are similarly influenced, suggesting that the factors influence neurons of all sensory modalities. To look at other possible influences of the nerve-released factors, a novel simple culture system has been developed in which concentration gradients of these factors can be established and maintained. The front of the outgrowth-promoting influence in these cultures could be followed over time (up to 9 days) as it affected the process length and morphology of neurons at increasing distances (up to 8 mm) from the source of the factors. The trophic factors may play important roles during regeneration in vivo by influencing the cytoskeletal organization in the cell body and growth cones to bring about a stabilization and consolidation of growth cone membrane of only a limited number of processes resulting in increasing the rate of process elongation. The factors may also serve to direct process outgrowth, which can be examined using the new culture system.
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- M Dobretsov
- Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan 00901
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