PMID: 11310624Apr 20, 2001Paper

Electrically active axons degenerate when exposed to nitric oxide

Annals of Neurology
Kenneth J SmithM Davies

Abstract

Axonal degeneration is a major cause of permanent deficit in inflammatory neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Axons undergo degeneration specifically at the site of the inflammatory lesions, suggesting that locally produced inflammatory factors mediate the phenomenon. One such factor is nitric oxide (NO), which we have previously reported can cause reversible conduction block in axons. Here we confirm these observations and extend them to show that axons exhibit the early stages of wallerian degeneration if they are conducting impulses at physiological frequencies while they are exposed to the low micromolar concentrations of NO that are likely to occur at sites of inflammation. Rat dorsal roots were concurrently exposed in vivo to both NO and sustained impulse activity at 1, 50, or 100 Hz. Although our in vivo observations necessarily focused on the more acute responses, morphological examination of exposed roots at the end of the recording period revealed nodal and paranodal changes consistent with acute wallerian degeneration in roots stimulated at 50 or 100 Hz. This interpretation was confirmed in a few experiments that were prolonged to permit more obvious indicators of degeneration to develop. In these exper...Continue Reading

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