Publication Date:
1982-07-23
Description:
Most neurons in organotypic cultures of dorsal root ganglia from 13-day-old fetal mice require high concentrations of nerve growth factor for survival during the first week after explanation. These nerve growth factor-enhanced sensory neurons mature and innervate the dorsal regions of attached spinal cord tissue even after the removal of exogenous growth factor after 4 days. In cultures exposed for 4 days to nerve growth factor and taxol (a plant alkaloid that promotes the assembly of microtubules) and returned to medium without growth factor, greater than 95 percent of the ganglionic neurons degenerated and the spinal cord tissues were reduced almost to monolayers. In contrast, when the recovery medium was supplemented with nerve growth factor, the ganglionic neurons and dorsal (but not ventral) cord tissue survived remarkably well. Dorsal cord neurons do not normally require an input from dorsal root ganglia for long-term maintenance in vitro, but during and after taxol exposure they become dependent for survival and recovery on the presence of neurite projections from nerve growth-factor-enhanced dorsal root ganglia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Peterson, E R -- Crain, S M -- NS-14990/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Jul 23;217(4557):377-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6124041" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alkaloids/*pharmacology
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Animals
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Culture Media
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Female
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Fetus
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Ganglia, Spinal/drug effects
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Mice
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Nerve Growth Factors/*pharmacology/physiology
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Neurons, Afferent/drug effects
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Neurons, Efferent/drug effects
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Organ Culture Techniques
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Paclitaxel
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Spinal Cord/drug effects
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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