• Neuroscience · Mar 1995

    Spinal axons in central nervous system scar tissue are closely related to laminin-immunoreactive astrocytes.

    • J Frisén, A Haegerstrand, M Risling, K Fried, C B Johansson, H Hammarberg, R Elde, T Hökfelt, and S Cullheim.
    • Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
    • Neuroscience. 1995 Mar 1; 65 (1): 293-304.

    AbstractAlthough transected central nervous system axons fail to regrow after injuries in adult mammals, they send sprouts into the scar tissue that forms at the lesion. We have investigated the relation between scar cells, laminin-like immunoreactivity and cut spinal axons in two previously characterized spinal cord lesion types. Labeling with antisera to glial fibrillary acidic protein and laminin demonstrated that the scar tissue formed after lesions in the rat and cat dorsal and ventral funiculi showed prominent gliosis and strong laminin-like immunoreactivity four days to one year postlesion. Axonal sprouts in the scar, visualized with antibodies to neurofilament (RT97) or by tracing using fluorescein-conjugated dextran, were ensheathed by a thin layer of strongly laminin-immunoreactive tissue. Immunoelectron microscopy demonstrated that axons in the scar were ensheathed predominantly by astrocytes, and that the surface of the cells outlining the axons in the scar showed strong laminin-like immunoreactivity. Adhesive and neurite orienting properties in the scar tissue were assessed in an in vitro system where PC12 cells were cultured on spinal cord slices from dorsal funiculus-lesioned rats. Very few cells adhered to the spinal cord section except for the part where the scar tissue had formed, where numerous cells were attached. The PC12 cells that had adhered to the scar tissue were mainly seen in parts of the scar that showed laminin-like immunoreactivity and their neurites predominantly followed tissue showing laminin-like immunoreactivity. The close association between axonal sprouts and laminin-like immunoreactivity indicates a role for laminin in axonal growth and/or guidance in the injured spinal cord.

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