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J Neurobiol ; 41(2): 267-80, 1999 Nov 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10512983

ABSTRACT

Inferior colliculus (IC) slice cultures from postnatal (P) day 6-8 gerbils exhibit axonal regeneration across a lesion site, and these regrowing processes can form synapses. To determine whether regenerative capacity is lost in older tissue, as occurs in vivo, slices from P12-21-day animals were grown under similar conditions. While these cultures displayed a near complete loss of neurons over 6 days in vitro, glutamate receptor antagonists (AP5 and/or CNQX) significantly enhanced survival, particularly at P12-15. In contrast, several growth factors or high potassium did not improve neuron survival. Therefore, axonal regeneration was assessed following complete transection of the commissure in AP5/CNQX-treated IC cultures from P12 animals. Neurofilament staining revealed that transected commissural axons survived for 6 days in vitro, but only a few processes crossed the lesion site and these axons did not extend into the contralateral lobe. In contrast, there was robust axonal sprouting and growth within one lobe of the IC, remote from the lesion site. When P6 and P12 tissue was explanted onto a coated substrate, the P6 axons grew onto the substrate, but the P12 axons were seemingly prevented from reaching the substrate by a veil of nonneuronal cells. Coculture of the IC and one of its afferent populations, the lateral superior olive, provided a similar finding, indicating that failure to regenerate was a general property at the age examined. These data show that neuron survival is not sufficient to permit axon regeneration at P12, and suggest that P12 lesion sites manufacture a prohibitive substrate since process outgrowth is blocked specifically at the commissure transection.


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Aging/physiology , Axons/physiology , Inferior Colliculi/cytology , Inferior Colliculi/physiology , Nerve Regeneration/physiology , 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/pharmacology , 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione/pharmacology , Animals , Cell Death/drug effects , Cell Death/physiology , Cell Survival/drug effects , Cell Survival/physiology , Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology , Gerbillinae , Neurons/chemistry , Neurons/cytology , Neurons/ultrastructure , Organ Culture Techniques , Receptors, Glutamate/physiology
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