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RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.
A combination of BDNF and NT-3 promotes supraspinal axonal regeneration into Schwann cell grafts in adult rat thoracic spinal cord.
Experimental Neurology 1995 August
We previously demonstrated that Schwann cells (SCs) in semipermeable guidance channels promote axonal regeneration in adult rat spinal cord transected at the mid-thoracic level. Propriospinal but not supraspinal axons grew into these channels. Here, we tested the ability of exogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) to promote axonal regeneration in this novel model. The two neurotrophins were delivered simultaneously into the channel by an Alzet minipump at a rate of 12 micrograms/day for each neurotrophin for 14 of 30 days tested; phosphate-buffered saline, the vehicle solution, was used as a control. Significantly more myelinated nerve fibers were present in SC/neurotrophin grafts than in SC/vehicle grafts (1523 +/- 292 vs 882 +/- 287). In the graft, at least 5 mm from the rostral cord-graft interface, some nerve fibers were immunoreactive for serotonin, a neurotransmitter specific to raphe-derived axons in rat spinal cord. Fast blue retrograde tracing from SC/neurotrophin grafts revealed labeled neurons in 10 nuclei of the brain stem, 67% of these being in the lateral and spinal vestibular nuclei. The mean number of labeled brain stem neurons in the SC/neurotrophin group (92; n = 3) contrasted with the mean in the SC/vehicle group (6; n = 4). Our results clearly demonstrate that BDNF and NT-3 infusion enhanced propriospinal axonal regeneration and, more significantly, promoted axonal regeneration of specific distant populations of brain stem neurons into grafts at the mid-thoracic level in adult rat spinal cord.
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