A Conditioning Sciatic Nerve Lesion Triggers a Pro-regenerative State in Primary Sensory Neurons Also of Dorsal Root Ganglia Non-associated With the Damaged Nerve

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DUBOVÝ Petr KLUSÁKOVÁ Ilona HRADILOVÁ SVÍŽENSKÁ Ivana BRÁZDA Václav KOHOUTKOVÁ Marcela JOUKAL Marek

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00011
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00011
Keywords unilateral nerve injury; primary sensory neurons; pro-regenerative state; GAP-43; SCG-10; IL-6; ulnar nerve crush; neurite outgrowth assay
Description The primary sensory neurons of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) are a very useful model to study the neuronal regenerative program that is a prerequisite for successful axon regeneration after peripheral nerve injury. Seven days after a unilateral sciatic nerve injury by compression or transection, we detected a bilateral increase in growth-associated protein-43 (GAP-43) and superior cervical ganglion-10 (SCG-10) mRNA and protein levels not only in DRG neurons of lumbar spinal cord segments (L4-L5) associated with injured nerve, but also in remote cervical segments (C6-C8). The increase in regeneration-associated proteins in the cervical DRG neurons was associated with the greater length of regenerated axons 1 day after ulnar nerve crush following prior sciatic nerve injury as compared to controls with only ulnar nerve crush. The increased axonal regeneration capacity of cervical DRG neurons after a prior conditioning sciatic nerve lesion was confirmed by neurite outgrowth assay of in vitro cultivated DRG neurons. Intrathecal injection of IL-6 or a JAK2 inhibitor (AG490) revealed a role for the IL-6 signaling pathway in activating the pro-regenerative state in remote DRG neurons. Our results suggest that the pro-regenerative state induced in the DRG neurons non-associated with the injured nerve reflects a systemic reaction of these neurons to unilateral sciatic nerve injury.
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