Fetal Spinal Cord Transplants Support Growth of Supraspinal and Segmental Projections after Cervical Spinal Cord Hemisection in the Neonatal Rat

作者: Pamela S. Diener , Barbara S. Bregman

DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-02-00779.1998

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摘要: Cervical spinal cord injury at birth permanently disrupts forelimb function in goal-directed reaching. Transplants of fetal tissue permit the development skilled use and associated postural adjustments ([Diener Bregman, 1998][1], companion article). The aim this study was to determine whether transplants support remodeling supraspinal segmental pathways that may underlie recovery reflexes movements. Although brainstem-spinal projections cervical are present birth, reaching has not yet developed. Three-day-old rats received a overhemisection with or without transplantation (embryonic day 14); unoperated pups served as normal controls. Neuroanatomical tracing techniques were used examine organization CNS influence target-directed In animals hemisections only, corticospinal, brainstem-spinal, dorsal root within decreased number extent. contrast, receiving plus exhibited growth these throughout transplant over long distances host caudal transplant. Raphespinal axons apposed numerous propriospinal neurons control animals; associations greatly reduced lesion-only animals. These observations suggest after neonatal injury, embryonic axonal specifically input neurons. We rat, transplant-mediated reestablishment circuitry is mechanism underlying adjustments. [1]: #ref-38

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