Bridging Schwann cell transplants promote axonal regeneration from both the rostral and caudal stumps of transected adult rat spinal cord

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Xu, Xiao Ming ^a   Chen, Aqing ^a   Guénard, Véronique ^a   Kleitman, Naomi ^a   Bunge, Mary Bartlett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030989043     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018557923309     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. AEBISCHER, P., GUÉNARD, V., WINN, S. R., VALENTINI, R. F. & GALLETTI, P. M. (1988) Semi-permeable guidance channels allow peripheral nerve regeneration in the absence of a distal nerve stump. Brain Research 454, 179-87.
2. AEBISCHER, P., GUÉNARD, V. & BRACE, S. (1989) Peripheral nerve regeneration through blind-ended semipermeable guidance channels: effect of the molecular weight cutoff. Journal of Neuroscience 9, 3590-5.
3. AGUAYO, A. J. (1985) Axonal regeneration from injured neurons in the adult mammalian central nervous system. In Synaptic Plasticity (edited by COTMAN, C. W.) pp. 457-84. New York: The Guilford Press.
4. BEHRMANN, D. L., BRESNAHAN, J. G. & BEATTIE, M. S. (1994) Modeling of acute spinal cord injury in the rat: neuroprotection and enhanced recovery with methylprednisolone, U-74006F and YM-14673. Experimental Neurology 126, 61-75.
5. BREGMAN, B. S. (1994) Recovery of function after spinal cord injury: Transplantation strategies. In Functional Neural Transplantation (edited by DUNNETT, S. B. & BJÖRKLUND, A.) pp. 489-529. New York: Raven Press, Ltd.
6. BUNGE, R. P. (1975) Changing uses of nerve tissue culture 1950-1975. In The Nervous System, The Basic Neurosciences Vol. 1 (edited by TOWER, D. B.) New York: Raven Press, Ltd.
7. BUNGE, R. P., PUCKETT, W. R., BECERRA, J. L., MARCILLO, A. & QUENCER, R. M. (1993) Observations on the pathology of human spinal cord injury. A review and classification of 22 new cases with details from a case of chronic cord compression with extensive focal demyelination. In Advances in Neurology. Vol. 59 (edited by SEIL, F. R.) pp. 75-89. New York: Raven Press, Ltd.
8. BUNGE, M. B., HOLETS, V. R., BATES, M. L., CLARKE, T. S. & WATSON, B. (1994) Characterization of photochemically induced spinal cord injury in the rat by light and electron microscopy. Experimental Neurology 127, 76-93.
9. BUNGE, R. P., PUCKETT, W. R. & HIESTER, E. D. (1997) Observations on the pathology of several types of human spinal cord injury, with emphasis on the astrocyte response in penetrating injuries. In Advances in Neurology (edited by SEIL, F. R.) pp. 300-15. New York: Raven Press, Ltd. (in press).
10. CARLSTEDT, T., CULLHEIM, S., RISLING, M. & ULFHAKE, B. (1989) Nerve fibre regeneration across the PNS-CNS interface at the root-spinal cord junction. Brain Research Bulletin 22, 93-102.
11. CASELLA, G., BUNGE, R. P. & WOOD, P. M. (1996) Improved method for harvesting human Schwann cells from mature peripheral nerve and expansion in vitro. Glia 17, 327-38.
12. CHEN, A., XU, X. M., KLEITMAN, N. & BUNGE, M. B. (1995) Methylprednisolone administration improves axonal regeneration into Schwann cell grafts in transected adult rat spinal cord. Abstracts of the Sixth International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, Asilomar, December 6-10, 1995 (edited by SEIL, F. R.) p. 71.
13. CHEN, A., XU, X. M., KLEITMAN, N. & BUNGE, M. B. (1996) Methylprednisolone administration improves axonal regeneration into Schwann cell grafts in transected adult rat thoracic spinal cord. Experimental Neurology 138, 261-76.
14. CHENG, H., CAO, Y. & OLSON, L. (1996) Spinal cord repair in adult paraplegic rats: partial restoration of hind limb function. Science 273, 510-13.
15. FERNANDEZ, E., PALLINI, R. & MERCANTI, D. (1990) Effects of topically administered nerve growth factor on axonal regeneration in peripheral nerve autografts implanted in the spinal cord of rats. Neurosurgery 26, 37-42.
16. GELDERD, J. B. (1990) Evaluation of blood vessel and neurite growth into a collagen matrix placed within a surgically created gap in rat spinal cord. Brain Research 511, 80-92.
17. GERFEN, C. R. & SAWCHENKO, P. E. (1984) An antero-grade neuroanatomical tracing method that shows the detailed morphology of neurons, their axons and terminals: Immunohistochemical localization of an axonally transported plant lectin, Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L). Brain Research 290, 219-38.
18. GUÉNARD, V., KLEITMAN, N., MORRISSEY, T. K., BUNGE, R. P. & AEBISCHER, P. (1992) Syngeneic Schwann cells derived from adult nerves seeded in semi-permeable guidance channels enhance peripheral nerve regeneration. Journal of Neuroscience 12, 3310-20.
19. GUENARD, V., XU, X. M. & BUNGE, M. B. (1993) The use of Schwann cell transplantation to foster central nervous system repair. Seminars in the Neurosciences 5, 401-11.
20. HOLETS, V. R., HÖKFELT, T., UDE, J., ECKERT, M., PENZLIN, H., VERHOFSTAD, A. A. J. & VISSER, T. J. (1987) A comparative study of the immunohistochemical localization of a presumptive proctolin-like peptide, thyrotropin-releasing hormone and 5-hydroxytryptamine in the rat central nervous system. Brain Research 408, 141-53.
21. HOULE, J. D. (1991) Demonstration of the potential for chronically injured neurons to regenerate axons into intraspinal peripheral nerve grafts. Experimental Neurology 113, 1-9.
22. HOULE, J. D. & JOHNSON, J. E. (1989) Nerve growth factor (NGF)-treated nitrocellulose enhances and directs the regeneration of adult rat dorsal root axons through intraspinal neural tissue transplants. Neuroscience Letters 103, 17-23.
23. HOULE, J. D. & ZIEGLER, M. K. (1994) Bridging a complete transection lesion of adult rat spinal cord with growth factor-treated nitrocellulose implants. Journal of Neural Transplantation and Plasticity 5, 115-24.
24. HOULE, J. D., WRIGHT, J. W. & ZIEGLER, M. K. (1994) After spinal cord injury, chronically injured neurons retain the potential for axonal regeneration. In Neural Transplantation, CNS Neuronal Injury, and Regeneration. (edited by MARWAH, J., TEITELBAUM, H. & PRASAD, K. N.) pp. 103-18. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
25. JAKEMAN, L. B. & REIER, P. J. (1991) Axonal projections between fetal spinal cord transplants and the adult rat spinal cord: a neuroanatomical tracing study of local interactions. Journal of Comparative Neurology 307, 311-34.
26. JOOSTEN, E. A. J., BÄR, P. R. & GISPEN, W. H. (1995) Collagen implants and cortico-spinal axonal growth after mid-thoracic spinal cord lesion in the adult rat. Journal of Neuroscience Research 41, 481-90.
27. KHAN, T., DAUZVARDIS, M. & SAYERS, S. (1991) Carbon filament implants promote axonal growth across the transected rat spinal cord. Brain Research 541, 139-45.
28. KLIOT, M., SMITH, G. M., SIEGAL, J. D. & SILVER, J. (1990) Astrocyte-polymer implants promote regeneration of dorsal root fibers into the adult mammalian spinal cord. Experimental Neurology 109, 57-69.
29. LI, R., CHEN, J., HAMMONDS, G., ARMANINI, M., WOOD, P. M., BUNGE, R., GODOWSKI, P. J., SLIWKOWSKI, M. & MATHER, J. (1996) Identification of Gas 6 as a growth factor for human Schwann cells. Journal of Neuroscience 16, 2012-19.
30. MESULAM, M.-M. (1978) Tetramethylbenzidine for horseradish peroxidase neurohistochemistry: a non-carcinogenic blue reaction product with superior sensitivity for visualizing neural afferents and efferents. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 26, 106-17.
31. MORRISSEY, T. K., KLEITMAN, N. & BUNGE, R. P. (1991) Isolation and functional characterization of Schwann cells derived from adult peripheral nerve. Journal of Neurosciencc 11, 2433-42.
32. OUDEGA, M. & HAGG, T. (1996) Nerve growth factor promotes regeneration of sensory axons into adult rat spinal cord. Experimental Neurology 140, 218-29.
33. PAÍNO, C. L., FERNANDEZ-VALLE, C., BATES, M. L. & BUNGE, M. B. (1994) Regrowth of axons in lesioned adult rat spinal cord: promotion by implants of cultured Schwann cells. Journal of Neurocytology 23, 433-52.
34. RAMÓN-CUETO, A. & NIETO-SAMPEDRO, M. (1994) Regeneration into the spinal cord of transected dorsal root axons is promoted by ensheathing glial transplants. Experimental Neurology 127, 232-44.
35. RAMÓN-CUETO, A. & VALVERDE, F. (1995) Olfactory bulb ensheathing glia: a unique cell type with axonal growth-promoting properties. Glia 14, 163-73.
36. RICHARDSON, P. M., MCGUINNESS, U. M. & AGUAYO, A. J. (1980) Axons from CNS neurones regenerate into PNS grafts. Nature 284, 264-5.
37. RICHARDSON, P. M., ISSA, V. M. K. & AGUAYO, A. J. (1984) Regeneration of long spinal axons in the rat. Journal of Neurocytology 13, 165-82.
38. SCHNELL, L. & SCHWAB, M. E. (1990) Axonal regeneration in the rat spinal cord produced by an antibody against myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors. Nature 343, 269-72.
39. SCHNELL, L. & SCHWAB, M. E. (1993) Sprouting and regeneration of lesioned corticospinal tract fibres in the adult rat spinal cord. European Journal of Neuroscience 5, 1156-71.
40. SIMS, T. J. & GILMORE, S. A. (1994a) Regrowth of dorsal root axons into a radiation-induced glial-deficient environment in the spinal cord. Brain Research 634, 113-26.
41. SIMS, T. J. & GILMORE, S. A. (1994b) Regeneration of dorsal root axons into experimentally altered glial environments in the rat spinal cord. Experimental Brain Research 99, 25-33.
42. WILLIAMS, L. R., POWELL, H. C., LUNDBORG, G. & VARON, S. (1984) Competence of nerve tissue as distal insert promoting nerve regeneration in a silicone chamber. Brain Research 293, 201-11.
43. XU, X. M. & MARTIN, G. F. (1989) Developmental plasticity of the rubrospinal tract in the North American opossum. Journal of Comparative Neurology 279, 368-81.
44. XU, X. M. & MARTIN, G. F. (1991) Evidence for new growth and regeneration of cut axons in developmental plasticity of the rubrospinal tract in the North American opossum. Journal of Comparative Neurology 313, 103-112.
45. XU, X. M., GUÉNARD, V., CHEN, A., KLEITMAN, N. & BUNGE, M. B. (1993) Rostral and caudal axonal regeneration into Schwann cell-seeded guidance channels grafted into a gap in adult rat spinal cord. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19, 681.
46. XU, X. M., GUÉNARD, V., KLEITMAN, N. & BUNGE, M. B. (1995a) Axonal regeneration into Schwann cell-seeded guidance channels grafted into transected adult rat spinal cord. Journal of Comparative Neurology 351, 145-60.
47. XU, X. M., GUÉNARD, V., KLEITMAN, N., AEBISCHER, P. & BUNGE, M. B. (1995b) A combination of BDNF and NT-3 promotes supraspinal axonal regeneration into Schwann cell grafts in adult rat thoracic spinal cord. Experimental Neurology 134, 261-72.
48. YE, J.-H. & HOULE, J. D. (1995) Trophic factor enhanced regeneration by chronically injured supraspinal neurons following cervical spinal cord injury. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 21, 1056.