SENSORY C-FIBERS IN RAT VENTRAL ROOTS ARE CAPSAICIN-INSENSITIVE AND THEY DO NOT MEDIATE EXTRAVASATION FROM PIAL VESSELS

被引:7
作者
KARLSSON, M
HILDEBRAND, C
机构
[1] Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping
关键词
RAT; VENTRAL ROOT; C-FIBER; CAPSAICIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLASMA PROTEIN EXTRAVASATION;
D O I
10.1016/0006-8993(94)90928-8
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Mammalian ventral roots and pia mater contain sensory C-fibers, some of which exhibit a substance P- and/or calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity. At some locations, sensory axons containing these neuropeptides evoke peripheral plasma protein extravasation after antidromic electrical stimulation. Such axons usually disappear following treatment of neonatal rats with capsaicin. The purpose of the present study is to find out if afferent C-fibers in the rat ventral roots L4 and L5 are capsaicin-sensitive, and if antidromic stimulation of these fibers elicits extravasation in the root and/or the ventral pia mater. The results show (1) that the number of C-fibers in these ventral roots is unaffected by neonatal capsaicin treatment, as seen in the electron microscope; (2) that the occurrence and general configuration of axons with substance P- and CGRP-like immunoreactivity do not appear abnormal in neonatally capsaicin-treated rats, as revealed by fluorescence microscopy on longitudinal frozen sections; (3) that Evans blue albumin is not extravasated in the ventral root or pia mater after electrical ventral root stimulation or following systemic injection of capsaicin. We conclude, that ventral root afferents are functionally different from otherwise similar afferents at other locations.
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