Trimethilin-induced plastic neuronal changes in rat hippocampus are accompanied be astrocytic trophic activity

• Authors: D. Koczyk , M. Skup , M. Zaremba , B. Oderfeld-Nowak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Partial deafferentation of the hippocampus due to trymethyltin (TMT) intoxication has been reported to induce plastic rearrangements of neuronal elements but the factors that direct these responses are unknown. To assess the possible involvement of nerve growth factor (NGF) in the phenomenon we evaluated the presumable changes in the expression pattern of NGF immunoreactivity (NGF-IR) in rat hippocampus 21 days after administration of TMT (8 mg/kg, i.p.) when reactive changes are fully developed. Immunolabelling for TrkA known to mediate biological effects of NGF and for GFAP to identify astroglial cells as a one of presumed source of postinjury produced factors was carried out on adjacent sections to establish the relation between expression of these proteins. In control hippocampus NGF-IR and TrkA-IR were localized in neurons and/or nueropil. After exposure to TMT remarkable non-neuronal expression of both proteins was observed. The distribution pattern of NGF, TrkA and GFAP overlapped suggesting that reactive asrtocytes may not only produce NGF but also may become responsive to this neurotrophin. Zones of extensive NGF and TrkA astroglial expression corresponded to areas of axonal-dendritic rearrangements reported earlier. That data suggest that astroglia-derived trophic activity may be involved in neuronal plastic events associated with treatment with TMT.

Keywords

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HIPPOCAMPAL PLASTICITY; REACTIVE GLIOSIS; TRIMETHYLIN

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Marceli Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Year: 1996
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 237-241

Contributors

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D. Koczyk

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M. Skup

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M. Zaremba

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B. Oderfeld-Nowak

• Document Type: proceeding
• Publication order reference: D.Koczyk