Morphological changes in sympathetic preganglionic neurons after spinal cord injury in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 211-225

  Krassioukov, A V ^a   Weaver, L C ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Atrophy; Autonomic dysreflexia; Hypertension; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMAL; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029656098     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00294-S     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Amendt K., Czachurski J., Dembrowsky K. and Seller H. (1978) Neurones within the "chemosensitive area" on the ventral surface of the brainstem which project to the intermediolateral column. Pflügers Arch. 375, 289-292.
2. Bacon S. J. and Smith A. D. (1988) Preganglionic sympathetic neurones innervating the rat adrenal medulla: Immunocytochemical evidence of synaptic input from nerve terminals containing substance P, GABA or 5-hydroxytryptamine. J. auton. nerv. Syst. 24, 97-122.
3. Barrett C. P., Donati E. J. and Guth L. (1984) Differences between adult and neonatal rats in their astroglial response to spinal injury. Expl Neurol. 84, 374-385.
4. Beattie M. S., Leedy M. G. and Bresnahan J. C. (1993) Evidence for alterations of synaptic inputs to sacral spinal reflex circuits after spinal cord transection in the cat. Expl Neurol. 123, 35-50.
5. Benowitz L. I. and Perrone-Bizzozero N. I. (1991) The expression of GAP-43 in relation to neuronal growth and plasticity: when, where, how, and why? Prog. Brain Res. 89, 69-87.
6. Bergmann M., Lahr G., Mayerhofer A. and Gratzl M. (1991) Expression of synaptophysin during the prenatal development of the rat spinal cord: correlation with basic differentiation processes on neurons. Neuroscience 42, 569-582.
7. Bernstein J. J., Wacker W. and Standler N. (1984) Spinal motoneuron dendritic alteration after spinal cord hemisection in rat. Expl Neurol. 83, 548-554.
8. Blottner D. and Baumgarten H. G. (1992) Nitric oxide synthetase (NOS)-containing sympathoadrenal cholinergic neurons of the rat IML-cell column: evidence from histochemistry, immunohistochemistry and retrograde labelling. J. comp. Neurol. 316, 45-55.
9. Born D. E. and Rubel E. W. (1985) Afferent influences on brain stem auditory nuclei of the chicken: neuron number and size following cochlea removal. J. comp. Neurol. 231, 435-445.
10. Calaresu F. R. and Yardley C. P. (1988) Medullary basal sympathetic tone. A. Rev. Physiol. 50, 511-524.
11. Corbett J. L., Debarge O., Frankel H. L. and Mathias C. (1975) Cardiovascular responses in tetraplegic man to muscle spasm, bladder percussion and head-up tilt. Clin. Expl Pharmac Physiol. Suppl. 2, 189-193.
12. Donald D. E. (1994) Splanchnic circulation. In: Handbook of Physiology. The Cardiovascular System. Vol. 3, pp. 219. Am. Physiol. Soc., Bethesda, MD.
13. Krassioukov A. V. and Weaver L. C. (1995) Episodic hypertension due to autonomic dysreflexia in acute and chronic spinal cord-injured rats. Am. J. Physiol. 268, 2077-2083.
14. Kurz E. M., Sengelaub D. R. and Arnold A. P. (1986) Androgens regulate the dendritic length of mammalian motoneurons in adulthood. Science 232, 395-398.
15. Li J.-Y., Kling-Petersen A. and Dahlström A. (1993) GAP 43-like immunoreactivity in normal adult rat sciatic nerve, spinal cord, and motoneurons; axonal transport and effect of spinal cord transection. Neuroscience 57, 759-776.
16. Marazzi G. and Buckley K. M. (1993) Accumulation of mRNAs encoding synaptic vesicle-specific proteins precedes neurite extension during early neuronal development. Devl Dyn. 197, 115-124.
17. Mashliah E., Fagan A. M., Terry R. D., Deteresa R. M., Malory M. and Gage F. (1991) Reactive synaptogenesis assessed by synaptophysin immunoreactivity is associated with GAP-43 in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat. Expl Neurol. 113, 131-142.
18. Mathias C. J. and Frankel H. L. (1983) Clinical manifestations of malfunctioning sympathetic mechanisms in tetraplegia. J. auton. nerv. Syst. 7, 303-312.
19. Mathias C. J. and Frankel H. L. (1992) The cardiovascular system in tetraplegia and paraplegia. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurology. (ed Frankel H. L.) Vol. 17, pp. 435-456. Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V.
20. Oderfeld-Nowak B., Bacia A., Gradkowska M., Fusco M., Vantini G., Leon A. and Aloe L. (1992) In vivo activated brain astocytes may produce and secrete nerve growth factor-like molecules. Neurochem. Int. 21, 455-461.
21. Okado N. and Oppenheim R. W. (1984) Cell death of motoneurons in the chick embryo spinal cord. J. Neurosci. 4, 1639-1652.
22. Osborn J. W., Taylor R. F. and Schramm L. P. (1989) Determinants of arterial pressure after chronic spinal transection in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 256, R666-R673.
23. Osborn J. W., Taylor R. F. and Schramm L. P. (1990) Chronic cervical spinal cord injury and autonomic hyperreflexia in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 258, R169-R174.
24. Pasinetti G. M., Cheng H. W., Morgan D. G., Lampert-Etchells M., McNeill T. H. and Finch C. E. (1993) Astrocytic messenger RNA responses to striatal deafferentation in male rat. Neuroscience 53, 199-211.
25. Peschanski M., Le Forestier N. and Rapisardi S. (1993) Neuroplasticity as a basis for therapeutics in spinal cord injuries and diseases. Restor. Neurol Neurosci. 5, 87-97.
26. Rudge J. S., Alderson R. F., Pasnikowski E., McClain J., Ip N. Y. and Lindsay R. M. (1992) Expression of ciliary neurotrophic factor and the neurotrophins-nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 in cultured rat hippocampal astrocytes. Eur. J. Neurosci. 4, 459-471.
27. Smith Z. D. J., Gray L. and Rubel E. W. (1983) Afferent influences on brainstem auditory nuclei of the chicken: N. laminaris dendritic length following monaural conductive hearing loss. J. comp. Neurol. 220, 199-205.
28. Snedecor G. and Cochran W. G. (1989) Statistical Methods. Vol. 8, pp. 1-503. Iowa State University Press, Iowa.
29. Steward O. (1989) Nervous system regeneration and repair following injury. In: Principles of Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience, pp. 218-247. Springer, New York.
30. Trostel K. A. and Osborn J. W. (1992) Do renal nerves chronically influence renal function and arterial pressure in spinal rats? Am. J. Physiol. 263, R1265-R1270.
31. Trostel K. A. and Osborn J. W. (1994) Does the spinal cord generate functionally significant sympathetic activity in the awake rat? Am. J. Physiol. 266, R1102-R1110.
32. Vaca K. and Wendt E. (1992) Divergent effects of astroglial and microglial secretions on neuron growth and survival. Expl Neurol. 118, 62-72.
33. Weaver L. C. and Polosa C. (1995) Spinal cord circuits providing control of sympathetic preganglionic neurons. In: The Autonomic Nervous System: Control of Autonomic Functions. (ed Jordan D.) Harwood Academic Publishers, London (in press).
34. Wiedenmann B. and Franke W. W. (1985) Identification and localization of synaptophysin, an integral membrane glycoprotein of Mr 38,000 characteristics of presynaptic vesicles. Cell 41, 1017-1028.
35. Wolpaw J. R. and Carp J. S. (1993) Adaptive plasticity in spinal cord. In Advances in Neurology (ed Seil F. J.). pp. 163-174. Raven Press Ltd., New York.
36. Xingjian L. and Bixby J. L. (1993) Co-ordinate and nonco-ordinate regulation of synaptic vesicle protein genes during embryonic development. Devl Biol. 159, 327-337.