title: Cell body remodeling during dying-back axonopathy: DRG changes during advanced disease.
abstract: Although the neuronal cell body functions critically in maintaining and repairing the axon, little attention has been focused on the soma during neurotoxin-induced dying-back of the axon. To help elucidate changes in the perikarya during axonal dying-back, this study employed the hexacarbon model of axonal neuropathy in a setting designed to maximize the chances of detecting structural alterations. A spectrum of cell body modifications occurred in the fifth lumbar dorsal root ganglia (DRG) of rats chronically exposed to 2,5-hexanedione. These included distinctive cytoplasmic remodeling, a perineuronal cell reaction, and evidence of neuronal death with neuronophagia. These findings suggest the importance of the cell body in the pathogenesis of neurotoxin-induced axonal degeneration and imply that complex soma-axon interactions may help determine the fate of intoxicated neurons.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006588:Hexanones; D009410:Nerve Degeneration; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology*; D011132:Polyribosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013127:Spinal Nerves / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D006588:Hexanones; C011269:2,5-hexanedione