Abstract:
:We have studied allogeneic transplants of adult rat enteric ganglia in order to evaluate their use as donor tissue for eventual autografts in rodent spinal cord injury models. Female Sprague-Dawley rats of similar weights served either as transplant donors or as recipients. A glass micropipette of 0.8 mm diameter was used to create a local penetrating injury of the lower thoracic spinal cord and the transplant material was pressure injected through the pipette within the neural parenchyma. Ganglia of the myenteric plexus adhering to the stratum longitudinal muscularis were dissected from portions of the jejunum and ileum. Following partial enzymatic digestion and mechanical disruption of the myenteric plexus and muscle tissue (labeled with adherent rhodamine conjugated microbeads), reaggregates of myenteric plexus and muscle were suspended in growth medium and cultured in vitro for one to two days prior to transplantation. Transplants were examined at three, four, six, and eight weeks after surgery. Some of the donor tissue was grown in vitro, in order to determine its cellular composition. These cultured explants were fixed after 10 days, and like myenteric plexus and muscle grafts, were stained histochemically for acetylcholinesterase and observed by fluorescence and light microscopy. At the earlier post-transplantation periods, grafts contained several clusters of enteric ganglion cells that were positive for acetylcholinesterase and exhibited ultrastructural features characteristic of the enteric nervous system. They had well-defined boundaries. Reactive astrocytes and their processes remained located within the host spinal cord adjacent to the boundary region of the grafts. Likewise, macrophages were located in areas abutting the graft. Newly formed vasculature penetrated the graft interior and appeared to be continuous with the host vessels. Grafts grown for at least eight weeks were characterized by interdigitating boundaries. Finger-like protrusions of graft tissue containing fibroblasts and collagen intermixed with adjacent gray and white matter of the host cord. Such transplants also had reactive astrocytes and ED1-positive macrophages. At this later stage, several groups of ganglion cells were identified that were intensely acetylcholinesterase-positive; however, only two of four grafts were recovered, whereas two of the transplants degenerated. We postulate that degeneration of allogeneic grafts may occur as a result of ongoing immune responses of the host which could be prevented by use of autogeneic enteric ganglia. Our studies show that fully differentiated enteric ganglia can survive transplantation to acutely injured spinal cord of adult rats.
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Neurosciencejournal_title
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Jaeger CB,Toombs JP,Borgens RBdoi
10.1016/0306-4522(93)90161-8subject
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1993-01-01 00:00:00pages
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1873-7544pii
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52pub_type
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