title: Nerve growth factor and neurotrophin-3 modulate the rabies infection of adult sensory neurons in primary cultures.
abstract: With the aim of determining if the proportion of rabies virus (RV)-infected adult neurons from dorsal root ganglion are affected by in vitro treatment with different neurotrophins, experiments using Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) or Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) as supplements for cells in culture were performed. Cultures treated with three different concentrations of each of the neurotrophins mentioned were infected with Challenge Virus Standard RV strain. An indirect immunoperoxidase technique was performed for the detection and counting of infected cells. NGF (2 ngml(-1) and 10 ngml(-1)) and NT-3 (1 ngml(-1) and 5 ngml(-1)) induced a significant reduction of infected neurons. None of the cultures treated with BDNF showed changes in the percentage of infected neurons. Likewise, the proportion of infected non-neuronal cells (Schwann cells and fibroblasts) was not altered by the treatment with neurotrophins. In addition, morphometric analysis of total and virus-immunoreactive neurons in culture were carried out, the neurotrophin treatment induced variations in the profile of neurons preferentially infected, since cell diameters in the infected cell population are different in the presence of NGF and NT-3. Data presented here could indicate a putative participation of neurotrophin receptor or biochemical modifications induced by neurotrophin treatment that affect the infection. The primary culture of dorsal root ganglion cells from adult mice is a very useful model for studying the basic phenomena of the RV-neuron interaction.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Neurociencias, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Av. Eldorado, Carrera 50, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. jcastellanos@hemagogus.ins.gov.co
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Castellanos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Acosta
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hurtado
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019208:Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D002452:Cell Count; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000187:drug effects / Q000821:virology; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000821:virology*; D051379:Mice; D020932:Nerve Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000821:virology*; D020933:Neurotrophin 3 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012583:Schwann Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D019208:Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; D020933:Neurotrophin 3; D020932:Nerve Growth Factor