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Karasawa M, Yokouchi K, Kakegawa A, Kawagishi K, Moriizumi T, Fukushima N. Effect of graded nerve pressure injuries on motor function. J Neurosurg 2015; 122:1438-43. [PMID: 25748301 DOI: 10.3171/2014.9.jns141451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECT The purpose of this study was to determine the minimum amount of nerve fibers required to maintain normal motor function after nerve injury in rats. METHODS The authors first confirmed that a common peroneal nerve injury caused more aggravating effects on lower limb motor function than tibial nerve injury, as assessed by the static sciatic index (SSI). Thereafter, rats were subjected to varying degrees of crush injury to the common peroneal nerve. At 48 hours after the injury, motor function was assessed using the SSI and slope-walking ability (with slope angles of 30° and 45°). The tibialis anterior muscle, a main muscle innervated by the common peroneal nerve, was removed. Muscle sections were co-labeled with neuronal class III β-tubulin polyclonal antibody to identify the presence of axons and Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated α-bungarotoxin to identify the presence of motor endplates. RESULTS The evaluation of neuromuscular innervation showed a correlation between SSI scores and ratios of residual axons (rs = 0.68, p < 0.01), and there was a statistically significant difference between slope-walking ability and ratios of residual axons (p < 0.01). Moreover, the ratios of residual axons in the nerve-crushed rats with normal motor function (SSI above -20) ranged from 36.5% to 88.7%, and those ratios in the success group with slope-walking angles of 30° and 45° ranged from 14.7% to 88.7% and from 39.8% to 88.7%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In this study of rodents, less than half of the motor axons were sufficient to maintain normal motor function of the lower limb.
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- Mika Karasawa
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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Kakegawa A, Yokouchi K, Itsubo T, Kawagishi K, Karasawa M, Moriizumi T, Fukushima N. Correlation between motor function and axonal morphology in neonatally sciatic nerve-injured rats. Anat Sci Int 2014; 90:97-103. [PMID: 24771539 DOI: 10.1007/s12565-014-0236-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The present study was conducted to investigate the correlation between motor function and axonal morphology in neonatally sciatic nerve-injured rats. The left sciatic nerve of newborn rats was transected or crushed, and functionality of the sciatic nerve was assessed by the static sciatic index after 8 weeks. After functional assessment, the common peroneal nerves in the control, nerve-transected, and nerve-crushed rats were removed and prepared for morphometric examinations. The cross-sectional area of the nerve, total number of myelinated axons, and size of each myelinated axon were analyzed for each group. The control rats showed normal motor function, whereas the nerve-transected rats showed severe motor dysfunction. The cross-sectional area of the nerve and total number of myelinated axons were reduced after nerve transection. Moreover, the percentage per size class of myelinated axons was almost uniform in the control rats, while the distribution was shifted to the left in the nerve-transected rats. Furthermore, no large myelinated axons were observed in the nerve-transected rats. The nerve-crushed rats showed various gait functions with various distribution patterns of axonal size, and the rats were divided into two groups with and without uninjured residual large axons. The results showed that the importance of regenerated medium-sized axons in cases without large axons and of residual large axons in cases with large axons in motor function. It was revealed that motor function was related closely to axonal size in neonatally nerve-injured rats.
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- Akira Kakegawa
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano, 390-8621, Japan
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Fukushima N, Yokouchi K, Kawagishi K, Kakegawa A, Sumitomo N, Karasawa M, Moriizumi T. Quantitative analysis of survival of hypoglossal neurons in neonatally nerve-injured rats: Correlation with milk intake. Arch Oral Biol 2014; 59:616-20. [PMID: 24727004 DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2014.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Revised: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/16/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Tongue movement innervated by the hypoglossal (XII) nerve is essential for the survival of neonatal rats. The pups with bilateral XII nerve resection failed to suckle milk and did not survive, and the pups with unilateral XII nerve resection showed disturbed suckling capability and lower survival rates. The present study was performed to investigate the relation between neuronal population and milk intake of developing rats that had received various degrees of crush injuries to the unilateral XII nerve during the neonatal period. METHODS The right XII nerve of postnatal day 1 (P1) pups was crushed and milk intake was estimated at 3 days and 6 days after the nerve injury. As nerve injury at the neonatal stage results in death of axotomized neurons, varying degrees of crushing was estimated by the number of survived motor neurons. RESULTS In nerve-crushed rats, the populations of XII motor neurons and amounts of milk intake were reduced in a varied manner. Statistically significant positive correlations were observed between increasing XII neuron survival and increasing milk intake at 3 (r=0.62) and 6 (r=0.71) days after the nerve injury. CONCLUSION The results indicate that there is a strong relationship between the number of XII motor neurons and the amount of milk intake in neonatally XII nerve-injured rats.
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- Nanae Fukushima
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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Shichinohe R, Furukawa H, Sekido M, Saito A, Hayashi T, Funayama E, Oyama A, Yamamoto Y. Direction of innervation after interpositional nerve graft between facial and hypoglossal nerves in individuals with or without facial palsy: A rat model for treating incomplete facial palsy. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2012; 65:763-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2011.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Kawagishi K, Yokouchi K, Fukushima N, Sakamoto M, Sumitomo N, Moriizumi T. Determination of functionally essential neuronal population of the olfactory epithelium for nipple search and subsequent suckling behavior in newborn rats. Brain Res 2009; 1276:50-7. [PMID: 19393636 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2008] [Revised: 03/19/2009] [Accepted: 04/13/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuronal population of the olfactory epithelium required for nipple search and subsequent suckling behavior was examined in newborn rats. After unilateral ablation of the olfactory bulb, different concentrations of ZnSO(4) were contralaterally injected into the nasal cavity to produce varying degrees of neuronal degeneration in the olfactory epithelium. The ZnSO(4)-treatment resulted in two populations of pups. One exhibited suckling while the other did not, and intact olfactory receptor neurons were quantified immunohistochemically using an antibody for olfactory marker protein (OMP), a marker protein for olfactory receptor neurons. The total numbers of the OMP (+) cells in the ZnSO(4)-treated pups with suckling capability ranged between 2457 and 4615, whereas those in the ZnSO(4)-treated pups without suckling capability ranged between 112 and 2398. With the mean value (4969) of the total numbers of the OMP (+) cells of the normal/control pups assumed to represent 100%, the total numbers of the OMP (+) cells accounted for 49-93% in the suckling (+) group and 2-48% in the suckling (-) group. From these findings, we conclude that approximately 50% of neuronal population of the olfactory epithelium is a critical value to distinguish between the two groups with and without suckling capability in the unilateral olfactory system of newborn rats.
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- Kyutaro Kawagishi
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.
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Fukushima N, Yokouchi K, Kawagishi K, Kakegawa A, Ezawa N, Moriizumi T. Neural plasticity of neonatal hypoglossal nerve for effective suckling. J Neurosci Res 2007; 85:2518-26. [PMID: 17549755 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The adaptive movement of the tongue after unilateral lesion of the hypoglossal (XII) nerve during the early postnatal days is essential for recovery of milk intake. The present study investigated the basic mechanisms underlying such adaptation, focusing on the neural plasticity that allows effective suckling. After resection of the ipsilateral XII nerve on P1, 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlolate (DiI), a postmortem neuronal tracer, was applied to the contralateral uninjured XII nerve on P4 and P7. DiI-labeled fibers were traced successfully within the tongue and showed gradually increased extension over the XII nerve-injured side in the central core portion of the denervated tongue between P4 and P7. Systematic neuroanatomic experiments showed that contralateral axonal sprouting occurred as early as 1 day after nerve injury (P2), and that such axonal sprouting occurred exclusively from the medial branch of the XII nerve responsible for tongue protrusion, an essential movement for suckling. These findings provide direct evidence of functional neural plasticity that allows effective suckling in XII nerve-injured newborns with suckling disturbance.
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- Nanae Fukushima
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
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Kakegawa A, Yokouchi K, Fukushima N, Fukuyama T, Moriizumi T. Motor neurons essential for normal sciatic function in neonatally nerve-injured rats. Neuroreport 2006; 17:1149-52. [PMID: 16837844 DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000230502.47973.fe] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The present study was aimed to determine neuronal population essential for normal motor function in young adult rats receiving various degrees of crushing to the sciatic nerve at the neonatal stage. Motor function was estimated by the static sciatic index, and a neuronal tracer was applied to the common peroneal nerve. The total numbers of the tracer-labeled neurons of the nerve-crushed rats were 74-383 in the normal function group, 14-61 in the disordered function group, and 0-32 in the severely disordered function group. We conclude that normal motor function can be well preserved by a very small population of motor neurons (approximately 15% of the control value) in the neonatally sciatic nerve-injured rats.
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- Akira Kakegawa
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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Fukushima N, Fujita K, Yokouchi K, Kawagishi K, Moriizumi T. Effects of bilateral resection of facial nerves on suckling in developing rats. Brain Res Bull 2004; 62:385-9. [PMID: 15168903 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2003.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2003] [Revised: 09/09/2003] [Accepted: 10/23/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The purpose of the present study is to investigate functional role of the facial nerve on suckling in developing rats. The bilateral resection of facial nerves on postnatal day 1 (P1) resulted in cell loss of facial motoneurons and complete facial paralysis without any whisker movement or nictitating reflex at the end of the postnatal 3 weeks. Although the body weight of the nerve-resected rats increased gradually for the postnatal 3 weeks, they weighed less than the control rats without nerve resection. The nerve-resected rats contained less milk (0.25 +/- 0.02 g) than the control rats (0.35 +/- 0.02 g) in the stomach on P17. On P21, the body weight of the nerve-resected rats (25.33 +/- 0.32 g) was decreased by 28% compared to that of the control rats (35.08 +/- 0.57 g). Although their growth was substantially more retarded than that of the control animals, most (92%) of the nerve-resected pups could survive without facial nerve innervation. The orofacial musculature innervated by the facial nerve plays an important role in breastfeeding, but the present study shows that these muscles are not essential for the survival of neonatal rats.
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- N Fukushima
- Department of Anatomy, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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