Laminin in Rat Sciatic Nerve Undergoing Wallerian Degeneration
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
- Vol. 43 (1), 94-103
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005072-198401000-00008
Abstract
Immunofluorescence with laminin antisera revealed a striking change in the localization of this basal membrane glycoprotein in rat sciatic nerve as a result of Wallerian degeneration. The staining was confined to the endoneurium in normal sciatic nerve and during the first days of degeneration. On day 11 endoneurial tubes were no longer identified in the distal stump of crushed nerves or of nerves that had been transected and tightly ligated to prevent regeneration. In both crushed and ligated nerves proliferating Schwann cells forming the cell-bands of Bünger were intensely laminin positive. With double-labeling experiments, laminin and neurofilament antisera revealed similar but not identical staining patterns in crushed nerves, which suggests a close relation between laminin and regenerating axons. Crushed nerves had recovered their normal appearance 18 days after operation while anti-laminin reactivity was decreased in parts of ligated nerves undergoing fibrosis. The localization of laminin in reactive Schwann cells was confirmed by electron microscopy using the indirect immunoperoxidase procedure. Axons did not contain reaction product.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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