Glial cell reactions in the spinal cord after sensory nerve stimulation are associated with axonal injury |
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Authors: | C Molander J Hongpaisan M Svensson H Aldskogius |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Neuroscience, Division of Neuroanatomy and Neuronal Plasticity, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden;bDepartment Surgical Sciences, Section of Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Astroglial and microglial reactions in the dorsal and ventral horns of the adult rat spinal cord were studied after graded electrical stimulation of the rat sciatic nerve and after topical application of mustard oil to the hindlimb foot. Antibodies to glial fibrillary acidic protein and complement receptor 3 (OX-42) were used as markers for astroglia and microglia, respectively. The results showed that electrical nerve stimulation resulted in increased immunoreactivity for GFAP and OX-42 in the spinal cord dorsal and ventral horns only after the use of stimulation strengths which were associated with nerve fiber degeneration in the stimulated nerve. Application of mustard oil to the foot caused no changes in GFAP or OX-42 immunoreactivity. These findings indicate that peripheral nerve stimulation in itself is insufficient to induce astroglial and microglial responses in the spinal cord. The signal(s) mediating these responses, regularly seen after nerve injury, are therefore most probably not related to the afferent barrage of action potentials evoked by the injury. |
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Keywords: | astrocyte microglia nerve injury spinal cord glial fibrillary acidic protein complement receptor |
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