Axonal elongation through acellular nerve segments of the cat tibial nerve: Importance of the near-nerve environment

Brain Research

Volumn 792, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-318

  Fugleholm, K ^a   Sorensen J ^a   Schmalbruch, H ^a   Krarup, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acellular; Blood vessel; Macrophage; Peripheral nerve; Regeneration; Schwann cell

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MACROPHAGES; NERVE REGENERATION; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; SILICONES; TIBIAL NERVE; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 17144474552     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00160-7     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Aebischer P., Guénard V., Brace S. Peripheral nerve regeneration through blind-ended semipermeable guidance channels: effect of the molecular weight cutoff. J. Neurosci. 9:1989;3590-3595.
2. Anderson P.N., Mitchell J., Mayor D., Stauber V.V. An ultrastructural study of the early stages of axonal regeneration through rat nerve grafts. Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 9:1983;455-466.
3. Anderson P.N., Nadim W., Turmaine M. Schwann cell migration through freeze-killed peripheral nerve grafts without accompanying axons. Acta Neuropathol. 82:1991;193-199.
4. Bajrovic F., Bresjanac M., Sketelj J. Long-term effects of deprivation of cell support in the distal stump on peripheral nerve regeneration. J. Neurosci. Res. 39:1994;23-30.
5. Beuche W., Friede R.L. The role of non-resident cells in Wallerian degeneration. J. Neurocytol. 13:1984.
6. Bresjanac M., Sketelj J. Neurite-promoting influences of proliferating schwann cells and target-tissues are not prerequisite for rapid axonal elongation after nerve crush. J. Neurosci. Res. 24:1989;501-507.
7. Brown M.C., Lunn E.R., Perry V.H. Consequences of slow Wallerian degeneration for regenerating motor and sensory axons. J. Neurobiol. 23:1992;521-536.
8. Brück W., Brück Y., Maruschak B., Friede R.L. Mechanisms of macrophage recruitment in Wallerian degeneration. Acta Neuropathol. 89:1995;363-367.
9. Chong M.S., Woolf C.J., Andrews P., Turmaine M., Schreyer D.J., Anderson P.N. The downregulation of GAP-43 is not responsible for the failure of regeneration in freeze-killed nerve grafts in the rat. Exp. Neurol. 129:1994;311-320.
10. Danielsen N., Kerns J.M., Holmquist B., Zhao Q., Lundborg G., Kanje M. Predegeneration enhances regeneration into acellular nerve grafts. Brain Res. 681:1995;105-108.
11. Fugleholm K., Schmalbruch H., Krarup C. Early peripheral nerve regeneration after crushing, sectioning, and freeze studied by implanted electrodes in the cat. J. Neurosci. 14:1994;2659-2673.
12. Fugleholm et al., 1998, in preparation.
13. Gulati A.K. Evaluation of acellular and cellular nerve grafts in repair of rat peripheral nerve. J. Neurosurg. 68:1988;117-123.
14. Hall S.M. The effect of inhibiting Schwann cell mitosis on the re-innervation of acellular autografts in the peripheral nervous system of the mouse. Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 12:1986;401-414.
15. Hall S.M. Regeneration in cellular and acellular autografts in the peripheral nervous system. Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 12:1986;27-46.
16. Ide C. Nerve regeneration and Schwann cell basal lamina: observations of the long-term regeneration. Arch. Histol. Jpn. 46:1983;243-257.
17. Ide C., Tohyama K., Yokota R., Nitatori T., Onodera S. Schwann cell basal lamina and nerve regeneration. Brain Res. 288:1983;61-75.
18. Jenq C.B., Coggeshall R.E. Permeable tubes increase the length of the gap that regenerating axons can span. Brain Res. 408:1987;239-242.
19. Kerns J.M., Danielsen N., Holmquist B., Kanje M., Lundborg G. The influence of predegeneration on regeneration through peripheral nerve grafts in the rat. Exp. Neurol. 122:1993;28-36.
20. Krarup C., Loeb G.E. Conduction studies in peripheral cat nerve using implanted electrodes: I. Methods and findings in controls. Muscle Nerve. 11:1988;922-932.
21. Krarup C., Loeb G.E., Pezeshkpour G.H. Conduction studies in peripheral cat nerve using implanted electrodes: II. The effects of prolonged constriction on regeneration of crushed nerve fibers. Muscle Nerve. 11:1988;933-944.
22. Madison R., Silva C.F., Dikkes P., Chiu T.H., Sidman R.L. Increased rate of peripheral nerve regeneration using bioresorbable nerve guides and a laminin-containing gel. Exp. Neurol. 88:1985;767-772.
23. Mira J.-C. Effets d'une congélation localisée sur la structure des fibers nerveuses myélinisées et leur régénération. J. Microscopie. 14:1972;155-168.
24. Nadim W., Anderson P.N., Turmaine M. The role of Schwann cells and basal lamina tubes in the regeneration of axons through long lengths of freeze-killed nerve grafts. Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 16:1990;411-421.
25. Ochi M., Wasaka M., Ikuta Y., Kwong W.H. Nerve regeneration in predegenerated basal lamina graft: the effect of duration of predegeneration on axonal extension. Exp. Neurol. 128:1994;216-225.
26. Raivich G., Kreutzberg G.W. Peripheral nerve regeneration: role of growth factors and their receptors. Int. J. Dev. Neurosci. 11:1993;311-324.
27. Sanes J.R. Laminin for axonal guidance? Nature. 315:1985;714-715.
28. Schwab M.E., Thoenen H. Dissociated neurons regenerate into sciatic but not optic nerve explants in culture irrespective of neurotrophic factors. J. Neurosci. 5:1985;2415-2423.
29. Scott J.J.A. Regeneration of gamma-fusimotor axons after nerve freeze injury in the cat. Brain Res. 348:1985;159-162.
30. Sjöberg J., Kanje M., Edström A. Influence of non-neuronal cells on regeneration of the rat sciatic nerve. Brain Res. 453:1988.
31. Sjöberg J., Kanje M. The initial period of peripheral nerve regeneration and the importance of the local environment for the conditioning lesion effect. Brain Res. 529:1990;79-84.
32. Sketelj J., Bresjanac M., Popovic M. Rapid growth of regenerating axons across the segments of sciatic nerve devoid of Schwann cells. J. Neurosci. Res. 24:1989;153-162.
33. Stoll G., Griffin J.W., Li C.Y., Trapp B.D. Wallerian degeneration in the peripheral nervous system: participation of both Schwann cells and macrophages in myelin degradation. J. Neurocytol. 18:1989;671-683.
34. Tapia M., Inestrosa N.C., Alvarez J. Early axonal regeneration: repression by Schwann cells and a protease? Exp. Neurol. 131:1995;124-132.
35. Tarlov I.M., Epstein J.A. Nerve grafts: the importance of an adequate blood supply. J. Neurosurg. 2:1945;49-71.
36. Tohyama K., Ide C., Osawa T. Nerve regeneration through the cryoinjured allogeneic nerve graft in the rabbit. Acta Neuropathol. 80:1990;138-144.
37. Tomaselli K.J., Reichardt L.F., Bixby J.L. Distinct molecular interactions mediate neuronal process outgrowth on non-neuronal cell surfaces and extracellular matrices. J. Cell Biol. 103:1986;2659-2672.
38. Weis J., Schröder M. Differential effects of nerve, muscle, and fat tissue on regenerating nerve fibers in vivo. Muscle Nerve. 12:1989;723-734.
39. Weiss P. Functional nerve regeneration through frozen-dried nerve grafts in cats and monkeys. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 54:1943;277-279.
40. Williams L.R. Exogenous fibrin matrix precursors stimulate the temporal progress of nerve regeneration within a silicone chamber. Neurochem. Res. 12:1987;851-860.
41. Young J.Z. The functional repair of nervous tissue. Physiol. Rev. 22:1942;318-374.
42. Zalewski A.A., Gulati A.K. Evaluation of histocompatibility as a factor in the repair of nerve with a frozen nerve allograft. J. Neurosurg. 56:1982;550-554.