title: Peripheral nerve regeneration through a long detergent-denatured muscle autografts in rabbits.
abstract: Muscle segments excised from rabbit biceps femoris muscles were treated with detergent sodium dodecyl sulphate to denature cellular constituents, and each was autografted in a 5 cm gap of the sciatic nerve in the same rabbit. Axonal regrowth through the grafts and reinnervation into the host sciatic nerves and muscles were studied morphologically, and electrophysiologically, 4 months after grafting. Regenerating axons accompanied by Schwann cells extended through basal lamina tubes of the grafts into the distal host nerves. Reinnervation of the tibialis anterior muscles by motor nerves was confirmed by recovery of the compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) and the reinnervation of the muscle spindles was demonstrated by electron microscopy. These findings indicated that the basal lamina tubes of denatured muscles were effective scaffolds through which the regenerating nerve fibers grew across as large a gap as 5 cm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mligiliche
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tabata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Endoh
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ide
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003902:Detergents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004576:Electromyography; D004594:Electrophysiology; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009470:Muscle Spindles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000637:transplantation* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000502:physiology; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011817:Rabbits; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
chemical_list: D003902:Detergents; D012967:Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate