PMID: 3768690Sep 24, 1986Paper

A comparison of the effects of climbing fiber deafferentation in adult and weanling rats

Brain Research
W J Anderson, B A Flumerfelt

Abstract

The climbing fiber input to the cerebellar cortex was destroyed using both electrolytic and chemical (3-acetylpyridine) lesions. The long-term effects of climbing fiber deafferentation on the ansiform lobule of weanling and adult rats were examined at both the light and electron microscopic levels. Image analysis of Golgi-impregnated Purkinje cells indicated a significantly lower number of smooth branches and spiny branchlets following climbing fiber deafferentation of both adult and weanling rats. The results suggest that the lower number of smooth branches and spiny branchlets following climbing fiber deafferentation of the weanling rat is the result of a loss of postnatal growth rather than transneuronal degeneration. Ultrastructural evidence is provided in confirmation of these quantitative findings. Formation of ectopic dendritic spines was found following climbing fiber deafferentation of the weanling rat, but not the adult. It is shown that ectopic spines and the denervated dendritic thorns of these animals were synaptically innervated by the parallel fiber system and basket axons. The formation of ectopic spines on climbing fiber deafferentated Purkinje cells may represent a form of dendritic plasticity. Ultrastructural...Continue Reading

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