Treatment of the chronically injured spinal cord with neurotrophic factors can promote axonal regeneration from supraspinal neurons

Experimental Neurology
J H Ye, J D Houle

Abstract

Axonal regeneration has been demonstrated by supraspinal neurons long after a spinal cord injury, although this potential seems limited to a few neurons in specific nuclear groups. Whether the regenerative response could be enhanced by exposure to neurotrophic factors was examined in this study. Neurons injured during a cervical spinal cord hemisection lesion were labeled with true blue (TB). Four weeks after spinal cord injury, gel foam saturated with brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), neurotrophin 3 (NT-3), ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), or saline as a control was placed into the lesion cavity. The gel foam was replaced with fresh factor after 3 days, and 4 days later a peripheral nerve (PN) graft was apposed to the rostral cavity wall. Four weeks later neurons that grew an axon into the PN graft were labeled with nuclear yellow (NY). Cells that were double labeled (TB and NY) represented chronically injured neurons capable of axon regeneration. Cells labeled with NY only were either acutely injured neurons capable of axonal regrowth or uninjured neurons that had sprouted into the PN graft. The total number of TB/NY-labeled neurons was significantly increased following exposure to BDNF, NT-3, or CNTF. Specific reg...Continue Reading

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