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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-10
pubmed:abstractText
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) appears as a key player at both central and peripheral terminals in early degenerative pathology and pain behavior after peripheral nerve injury. Recent studies suggest that TNF may be axonally transported and thereby contribute to these central and peripheral actions. To characterize this transport, we used a double ligation (DL) procedure that distinguishes between anterograde and retrograde flow to visualize the axonal transport of endogenous TNF compared with the neurotrophin nerve growth factor (NGF) and to the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). In the intact nerve, TNF and CGRP immunoreactivity predominantly accumulated proximal to the DL (anterograde transport), whereas NGF displayed exclusive retrograde transport. At 20 hr after chronic constrictive injury (CCI), the anterograde transport of TNF and CGRP to the nerve injury site was dramatically increased. The results were corroborated by the analysis of axonal transport of exogenously applied 125I-TNF and 125I-NGF. After intraneural injection, 125I-TNF accumulated proximally to a DL, suggesting anterograde transport. In the unligated nerve, 125I-TNF was specifically transported anterogradely to the innervated muscle but not to skin. After CCI, 125I-TNF accumulated proximally to the peripheral nerve injury site, and endogenous TNF was exclusively increased in medium-sized and large dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, suggesting that DRG neurons are a major contributing source of increased TNF traffic in the injured sciatic nerve. Our results suggest that anterograde transport of TNF plays a major role in the early neuronal response to peripheral nerve injury at sites distal to the cell body.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
536-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Axonal Transport, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Cell Size, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Drug Administration Routes, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Ganglia, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Iodine Radioisotopes, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Ligation, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Muscles, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Nerve Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Neurons, Afferent, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Sciatic Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Sciatic Neuropathy, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Skin, pubmed-meshheading:11784800-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Anterograde transport of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the intact and injured rat sciatic nerve.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany. mschaefers@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't