山羊腓神经感觉和运动神经元胞体的位置和形态——辣根过氧化物酶(HRP)法

用HRP法对七只山羊的腓神经的来源及节段性分布规律进行追踪观察,结果如下: 1.腓神经感觉神经元胞体主要集中于L_6和S_1脊神经节内,其次位于S_2脊神经节内。其胞体多呈椭圆形和圆形,可分大、中、小三型,而以中型为主。 2.腓神经运动神经元胞体主要集中于L_6和S_1脊髓腹角,其次位于L_S脊髓腹角。胞体多呈星状或三角形。多数为较大的多极神经元,少数为小型多极神经元。     

Estradiol is concentrated in tyrosine hydroxylase-containing neurons of the hypothalamus

Localization of [3H]estradiol in tyrosine hydroxylase-containing neurons of rat brain was shown by a combined technique of autoradiography and immunohistochemistry. [3H]Estradiol was concentrated in the nuclei of tyrosine hydroxylase-containing neurons in the nucleus arcuatus, nucleus periventricularis hypothalami, and the zona incerta. These results suggest that estradiol acts directly on dopamine-producing neurons of the tuberoinfundibular system and incertohypothalamic system.     

Ethanol neurotoxicity: effects on neurite formation and neurotrophic factor production in vitro

The effects of ethanol on chick embryo sensory and spinal cord neurons growing on one of several biological substrates (poly-D-lysine, laminin, or neuron-produced neurite-promoting materials) were examined. Ethanol inhibited process formation by the neurons in a dose-dependent manner and inhibited the production of neurotrophic factors. Neuronal attachment to the substrates, survival of attached neurons, and receptor interactions of sensory neurons with nerve growth factor were not influenced by ethanol. It appears that ethanol alters certain metabolic characteristics of developing neurons.     

Cell recognition by neuronal growth cones in a simple vertebrate embryo

The mechanism that guides neuronal growth cones to their targets in vertebrate embryos has been difficult to study primarily because of the complexity and large number of neurons found in many vertebrate nervous systems. The spinal cord of a simple vertebrate, the fish embryo, is used to analyze pathfinding mechanisms. The early embryonic spinal cord consists of a relatively small number of identifiable neurons. From the beginning of axonal outgrowth the growth cones of these identified neurons extend along stereotyped and precise pathways in the spinal cord. Laser ablation experiments (i) support the hypothesis that early growth cones that pioneer specific spinal tracts appear to recognize cues on subsets of longitudinally arrayed neuroepithelial cells and (ii) demonstrate that later growth cones that selectively fasciculate in these spinal tracts appear to recognize cues on specific subsets of axons.     

6种家禽孤束核的脊髓通路：HRP逆行追踪法研究

应用微电泳逆行追踪技术，分别向北京鸭，麻鸭，鹅、鸡、鸽和鹌鹑脊髓的颈、胸、腰段的一侧灰质中导入辣根过氧化物酶系统地研究了其孤束核至脊髓传导通路和细胞构筑。结果如下：在颈髓不同节段单侧灰质导入Ｈ ＲＰ后，６种家禽延髓的双侧孤束核内都出现了大量的标准细胞；     

Transmitter sensitivity of neurons assayed by autoradiography

Ionic conductance channels that are opened by activating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at synapses of sympathetic neurons are permeable to small organic amines. Uptake of a tritium-labeled amine through these channels can be measured by autoradiography. This provides a simple and direct way to assess the sensitivity of individual neurons to acetylcholine without using microelectrodes.     

Synaptic connections in vitro: modulation of number and efficacy by electrical activity

The functional architecture of synaptic circuits is determined to a crucial degree by the patterns of electrical activity that occur during development. Studies with an in vitro preparation of mammalian sensory neurons projecting to ventral spinal cord neurons slow that electrical activity induces competitive processes that regulate synaptic efficacy so as to favor activated pathways over inactive convergent pathways. At the same time, electrical activity initiates noncompetitive processes that increase the number of axonal connections between these sensory and spinal cord neurons.     

Serotonin and octopamine in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

The biogenic amines serotonin and octopamine are present in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Serotonin, detected histochemically in whole mounts, is localized in two pharyngeal neurons that appear to be neurosecretory. Octopamine, identified radioenzymatically in crude extracts, probably is also localized in a few neurons. Exogenous serotonin and octopamine elicit specific and opposite behavioral responses in Caenorhabditis elegans, suggesting that these compounds function physiologically as antagonists.     

山羊正中神经感觉纤维来源及节段性分布规律的研究—HRP法

本实验采用HRP正中神经断端涂抹法,对五只山羊正中神经感觉纤维的节段性来源,进行了研究。结果表明:正中神经的感觉神经元主要集中于C_7、C_8和Th_1的脊神经节中,其次位于C_6、Th_2的脊神经节中。胞体形态具有多型性,并区分为大、中、小三型。其中以小型细胞为主。     

鸡腔上囊传入神经元的分布——HRP法研究

用CB—HRP法研究鸡腔上囊的感觉神经分布,结果表明:初级传入神经元位于T_6—LS_(13)脊神经节内,主要在LS_9—LS_(11)和LS_1—LS_2;初级传入神经元的中枢突在LS_8—LS_(12)髓节沿背角外侧缘延伸,止于中央管背测阳背外测区;部分初级传入神经元位于迷走神经结状节内。     

Transmission of chronic nociception by spinal neurons expressing the substance P receptor

Substance P receptor (SPR)-expressing spinal neurons were ablated with the selective cytotoxin substance P-saporin. Loss of these neurons resulted in a reduction of thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia associated with persistent neuropathic and inflammatory pain states. This loss appeared to be permanent. Responses to mildly painful stimuli and morphine analgesia were unaffected by this treatment. These results identify a target for treating persistent pain and suggest that the small population of SPR-expressing neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord plays a pivotal role in the generation and maintenance of chronic neuropathic and inflammatory pain.     

家禽动眼神经副交感核和Cajal中介核至脊髓的直接投射——HRP法研究

采用微电泳导入法和微量注射法,将HRP分别引入脊髓的颈中部、颈膨大部和腰膨大部,逆行追踪了北京鸭、麻鸭、鹅、鸡、鸽子和鹌鹑6种家禽的上位神经元。结果发现：大量标记细胞不仅分布于中脑对侧红核,还分布于双侧的动眼神经副交感核（EW核）,Cajal中介核和中央灰质,少量标记细胞分布于中脑网状结构和中缝核。标记细胞分布数量的规律是：颈中部引入HRP后,出现的标记细胞最多;颈膨大部引入HRP者次之;腰膨大部引入HRP后,出现的标记细胞最少。两种方法的实验结果没有明显的差异。6种动物之间的差异也不显著。各组实验中,在中脑的顶盖没有任何部位出现标记细胞。研究结果表明：家禽的中脑脊髓通路中,除了具有红核脊髓束、网状脊髓束和中缝脊髓束外,还存在着EW核至脊髓的直接传导通路和Cajal中介核至脊髓的直接传导通路。     

Molecular cloning and expression of neuroleukin, a neurotrophic factor for spinal and sensory neurons

A novel 56,000-dalton growth factor found in mouse salivary gland was purified, molecularly cloned, and expressed in monkey COS cells. The protein is a neurotrophic factor and also, surprisingly, a lymphokine product of lectin-stimulated T cells. The factor was therefore named neuroleukin. Neuroleukin promotes the survival in culture of a subpopulation of embryonic spinal neurons that probably includes skeletal motor neurons. Neuroleukin also supports the survival of cultured sensory neurons that are insensitive to nerve growth factor, but has no effect on sympathetic or parasympathetic neurons. The amino acid sequence of neuroleukin is partly homologous to a highly conserved region of the external envelope protein of HTLV-III/LAV, the retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome.     

Neurobiology. Death leads to brain neuron birth

Although scientists have provided mounting evidence in the past few years that new neurons can be produced in some areas of the adult brain, the neocortex--the region most concerned with such higher brain functions as memory and learning--did not seem capable of such regeneration. Now, in the 22 June issue of Nature, neuroscientists report that when they induced certain neurons in the neocortex of adult mice to self-destruct, the loss triggered the formation of replacement neurons by brain stem cells. If similar regeneration of brain neurons can be triggered in humans, the findings could open the door for treatments that might restore memory in Alzheimer's disease, for example, or undo the damage wreaked by spinal cord injury.     

Choline acetyltransferase activity is increased in combined cultures of spinal cord and muscle cells from mice

The activity of choline acetyltransferase was more than tenfold greater in combined cultures of spinal cord and muscle cells than in cultures of spinal cord cells alone. This increase was associated with the formation of functional neuromuscular junctions in culture. Counts of silver-stained cells and determinations of other enzyme activities indicated that the increased choline acetyltransferase activity was not due to nonspecific neuronal survival but reflected greater activity in the surviving neurons. Hence, muscle had a marked, highly specific trophic effect on the cholinergic neurons that innervated it.     

鸡腔上囊传出神经元的分布——用CB—HRP法研究

将CB—HRP注入鸡腔上囊壁内,支配腔上囊的神经元被标记。支配腔上囊的长轴突型交感节前神经元在胸7—腰荐3(简称T_7—LS_3)髓节的Terni氏柱内,主要位于LS_1—LS_2髓节。在LS_8—LS_(11)髓节中央管背侧和背外侧区有大量标记细胞,主要集中于LS_8髓节,这些标记细胞是支配腔上囊的副交感节前神经元,其轴突大部分行经同侧盆神经到达腔上囊,少数行经对侧的盆神经到达腔上囊。腔上囊的交感节后神经元位于T_6—L_(13)交感干神经节和肾上腺神经节,交感干的标记细胞集中位于LS_9—LS_(11)和LS_2—LS_3。副交感节后神经元位于盆神经和泄殖腔神经节内。在肠神经内有大量的标记细胞。     

北京鸭脑干网状脊髓束的起源及其细胞构筑:HRP逆行追踪法研究

采用HRP法,分别在北京鸭脊髓的颈中部、颈膨大部、腰膨大部单侧注射或包埋HRP,蓝色反应显色。逆行追踪了54例北京鸭,对脑干网状脊髓束的起源及其细胞构筑进行了研究。发现网状脊髓束不仅起于延髓和脑桥内侧网状结构的大细胞部,同时还起于外侧网状结构的小细胞部和中脑网状结构。标记细胞呈双侧性分布,同侧多于对侧。其结果为生理学和药理学提供了可靠的形态依据。     

Microelectrophoresis of biogenic amines on hypothalamic thermosensitive cells

The rat hypothalamus contains thermally insensitive, normally sensisitive, and highly thermosensitive cells. The responses of thermosensitive neurons to microelectrophoretically applied acetylcholine, norepinephrine, and 5-hydroxy-tryptamine were the same in both rats and cats. The firing rate of warm-sensitive interneurons was accelerated by acetylcholine and inhibited by norepinephrine. The firing rate of cool-sensitive interneurons was accelerated by norepinephrine and, in one case, was inhibited by 5-hydroxytryptamine. Thermodetector cells were relatively insensitive to these amines, but were sensitive to current flow. These results from the rat, but not from the cat, agree with the data for thermoregulatory responses following microinjection of these amines into the hypothalamus.     

Histochemical and functional correlations in anterior horn neurons of the cat spinal cord

The histochemical reaction for phosphorylase is completely lost from anterior horn neurons rich in phosphorylase within 72 hours after proximal or distal axonal section. Using this new type of axonal reaction as a marking technique in the anterior horn of the seventh lumbar spinal cord segment of the cat, we demonstrated that (i) alpha motor neurons of slow twitch motor units, like those of fast twitch motor units, are rich in phosphorylase and poor in succinate dehydrogenase, and (ii) interneurons and Renshaw neurons are rich in succinate dehydrogenase and poor in phosphorylase. Gamma motor neurons, because of their small size, are considered to be rich in succinate dehydrogenase and poor in phosphorylase. Thus, anterior horn neurons capable of higher firing frequencies (Renshaw neurons, interneurons, and gamma motor neurons) are richer in mitochondrial oxidative enzyme activity as marked by succinate dehydrogenase. Those firing at lower frequencies (both types of alpha motor neurons) are richer in phosphorylase activity and glycogen content and, thus, apparently better equipped for anaerobic glycolysis.     

Nerve growth factor attenuates neurotoxic effects of taxol on spinal cord-ganglion explants from fetal mice

Most neurons in organotypic cultures of dorsal root ganglia from 13-day-old fetal mice require high concentrations of nerve growth factor for survival during the first week after explanation. These nerve growth factor-enhanced sensory neurons mature and innervate the dorsal regions of attached spinal cord tissue even after the removal of exogenous growth factor after 4 days. In cultures exposed for 4 days to nerve growth factor and taxol (a plant alkaloid that promotes the assembly of microtubules) and returned to medium without growth factor, greater than 95 percent of the ganglionic neurons degenerated and the spinal cord tissues were reduced almost to monolayers. In contrast, when the recovery medium was supplemented with nerve growth factor, the ganglionic neurons and dorsal (but not ventral) cord tissue survived remarkably well. Dorsal cord neurons do not normally require an input from dorsal root ganglia for long-term maintenance in vitro, but during and after taxol exposure they become dependent for survival and recovery on the presence of neurite projections from nerve growth-factor-enhanced dorsal root ganglia.