PMID: 8586996Oct 1, 1995Paper

The progression of deafferentation as a retrograde reaction to hypoglossal nerve injury

Journal of Neurocytology
R C BorkeM E Nau

Abstract

This study examined the fate of axon terminals of one of the major sources of hypoglossal afferents, the spinal V nucleus, after XIIth nerve resection in adult Sprague-Dawley rats. In order to anterogradely label trigemino-hypoglossal projections, small quantities of horse radish peroxidase were pressure-injected into the ipsilateral dorsal (mandibular) portion of the spinal V nucleus two days before the animals were killed. Survival periods ranged from 5 to 33 days after nerve injury (dpo). Axonal injury produced relative changes in the association of labelled axon terminals to structures in the hypoglossal nucleus on the injured side. The proportion of horse radish peroxidase-labelled spinal V nucleus terminals with spherical vesicles (S-terminals) that were unapposed to hypoglossal somata or dendrites increased rapidly and reached maximal levels by 11 dpo. By contrast, the isolation of labelled terminals with pleomorphic/flattened vesicles (P/F-terminals) from postsynaptic structures began later, advanced at a slower rate and did not attain maximal levels until 20 dpo. S-terminals not apposed to neuronal cell parts increased at a rate of 2.2 times greater than unapposed P/F-terminals. In addition, at peak levels, the proport...Continue Reading

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