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Journal of neurotrauma · Aug 2017
Delayed Spinal Cord-Brachial Plexus Reconnection after C7 Ventral Root Avulsion: The Effect of Reinnervating Motoneurons Rescued by Riluzole Treatment.
- Balázs Gloviczki, Dénes G Török, Gábor Márton, László Gál, Tamás Bodzay, Sándor Pintér, and Antal Nógrádi.
- 1 Laboratory of Neural Regeneration, Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, University of Szeged , Szeged, Hungary .
- J. Neurotrauma. 2017 Aug 1; 34 (15): 2364-2374.
AbstractVentral root avulsion induces dramatic loss of the affected spinal cord motoneurons. The neuroprotective effect of riluzole has been previously proven on the injured motoneurons: the vast majority of them can be rescued even when they have no possibility to regenerate their axons. In this study the number of injured motoneurons rescued by riluzole treatment and their capacity to reinnervate the denervated forelimb muscles was investigated. Surgical reconnection with a peripheral nerve graft between the affected spinal cord segment and the C7 spinal nerve was established immediately or with 1- and 3-week delay after avulsion. Avulsion and immediate reconnection of the motoneuron pool to the spinal nerve resulted in moderate reinnervation of the spinal nerve (281 ± 23 standard error of mean [SEM] retrogradely labeled motoneurons), whereas treatment of the injured motoneurons with riluzole yielded considerably higher numbers of reinnervating motoneurons (548 ± 18 SEM). Reconnection of the motor pool with the C7 spinal nerve with 1-week delay allowed fewer motor axons to reinnervate their targets in control and riluzole-treated animals (159 ± 21 vs. 395 ± 16 SEM). A clinically relevant 3-week delay in reconnection further reduced the number of reinnervating motoneurons (76 ± 22 SEM), but riluzole pre-treatment still enabled a significant number of rescued motoneurons (396 ± 17 SEM) to regenerate their axons into the C7 spinal nerve. These results show that those injured adult motoneurons that are rescued by riluzole treatment started immediately after the avulsion injury are able to reinnervate their targets even if they are provided with a conduit several weeks after the primary injury. This finding suggests that partial rescue of injured motoneurons with riluzole in patients who suffered a brachial plexus avulsion injury may provide an available pool of surviving motoneurons for late reconnection/reimplantation surgeries.
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