Enzyme histochemistry of cutaneous sensory nerve formations

Dubový, Petr

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0029(19960701)34:4<334::aid-jemt5>3.0.co;2-o

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“…The main structural (Halata, 1975;Iggo and Andres, 1982;Malinovsky, 1986;Munger and Ide, 1988;Zelena, 1994), biochemical (see Dubový, 1996), and immunohistochemical (see Vega et al, 1996b) characteristics of the cells forming sensory corpuscles have been extensively analyzed. Studies on corpuscular changes following injuries of the nerves supplying them are also abundant and have been so far addressed mainly to structural (for references see Zelena, 1994) and histochemical (see Dubový and Aldskogius, 1996) aspects.…”

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p75 and TrkA neurotrophin receptors in human skin after spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury, with special reference to sensory corpuscles

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Human skin, including nerves and sensory corpuscles, displays immunoreactivity (IR) for low-(p75) and high-affinity (TrkA-like) receptors for nerve growth factor (NGF), the best characterized member of the family of neurotrophins. This study was designed to analyze the changes induced by spinal cord and peripheral nerve injuries in the expression of neurotrophin receptors in digital skin, with special reference to nerves and sensory corpuscles.Skin biopsy samples were obtained from 1) the hand and toes of normal subjects, 2) below the level of the lesion of patients with spinal cord injury affecting dorsal and lateral funiculi, 3) the cutaneous territory of entrapped peripheral nerves (median and ulnar nerves), and 4) the cutaneous territory of sectioned and grafted nerves (median nerve). The pieces were formalinfixed and paraffin-embedded, cut in serial sections, and processed for immunohistochemistry using antibodies against human p75 and TrkA proteins. The percentage of sensory corpuscles displaying IR for p75 and TrkA-like, as well as the intensity of IR developed within them, was assessed using quantitative image analysis.Spinal cord severance causes a decrease in p75 IR in Meissner and Pacinian corpuscles, whereas TrkA-like IR did not vary. In other nonnervous tissues (i.e., epidermis, sweat glands), both p75 and TrkA-like IR was diminished or even absent. Similar but more severe changes were encountered in the skin from the territory of entrapped nerves. Finally, in subjects with sectioned-grafted nerves, p75 IR was found close to controls in nerves, reduced in Meissner corpuscles, and absent in the inner core of the Pacinian ones; TrkA-like IR was in the perineurium, a small percentage of Meissner corpuscles (about 7%), and the outer core and capsule of the Pacinan corpuscles. In the nonnervous tissues, p75 IR was practically absent, whereas TrkA-like IR did not change. No changes in the expression of neurotrophin receptors were observed in Merkel cells of the different groups.Present results show the following: 1) expression of nerve p75 IR in human cutaneous sensory corpuscles is sensitive to central deafferentation, to blockade or difficulty in axonal transport, and to disruption of axonal

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