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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The spatiotemporal pattern of somal and axonal pathology after perikaryal excitotoxic injury to retinal ganglion cells: A histological and morphometric study |
Author: | Saggu, S. Chotaliya, H. Cai, Z. Blumbergs, P. Casson, R. |
Citation: | Experimental Neurology, 2008; 211(1):52-58 |
Publisher: | Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
ISSN: | 0014-4886 1090-2430 |
Statement of Responsibility: | S.K. Saggu, H.P. Chotaliya, Z. Cai, P. Blumbergs and R.J. Casson |
Abstract: | <h4>Objective</h4>To describe the spatiotemporal pattern of somal and axonal pathologic changes after perikaryal excitotoxic injury to retinal ganglion cells in-vivo.<h4>Methods</h4>40 male Sprague-Dawley rats were killed at 0 h, 24 h, 72 h and 7 days after injecting 20 nM N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) into the vitreous chamber of left eye. Saline-injected right eyes served as control. After perfusion fixation, the eyes and retrobulbar optic nerves from half of the animals in each group were embedded in paraffin and tissues from the other half embedded in resin. Paraffin-embedded eyes and resin-embedded proximal (intraorbital) and distal (intracranial) optic nerve segments were evaluated by light microscopy. Light microscopic photographs of proximal and distal optic nerve segments were compared using the following parameters: axon counts, axonal swellings and myelin changes.<h4>Results</h4>Retinas showed cell loss in ganglion cell layer (GCL) and reduction in inner retinal thickness at 72 h after NMDA injection (p<0.05), with changes becoming more advanced after 7 days (p<0.001). The cell count in GCL correlated strongly with the axonal counts (R=0.929, p<0.001). Axon loss, axon swellings and myelin damage were seen in both proximal and distal segments of optic nerves 72 h post-NMDA exposure (p<0.05), with changes increasing further at 7 days (p<0.001). Pathological changes were more prominent in the distal segments (p<0.05).<h4>Conclusion</h4>Excitotoxic perikaryal injury causes an axonopathy, which is synchronous with the somal degeneration and which is most prominent in the distal portions of the axon, consistent with "dying-back like neuropathy". |
Keywords: | Axons Retinal Ganglion Cells Optic Nerve Animals Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Neurotoxicity Syndromes Disease Models, Animal N-Methylaspartate Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists Cell Count Analysis of Variance Time Factors Male |
Description: | Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.12.022 |
Description (link): | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622828/description#description |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.12.022 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Medicine publications |
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