Neurological research · 2008
Atrophy-resistant fibers in permanent peripheral denervation of human skeletal muscle.
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Biral Donatella, Kern Helmut, Adami Nicoletta, Boncompagni Simona, Protasi Feliciano, Carraro Ugo
Аннотация
OBJECTIVE: Human muscle fibers usually undergo severe atrophy/degeneration as a result of long-term peripheral denervation. However, some biopsies from paraplegic patients suffering complete conus cauda syndrome display the presence of a small percentage of muscle fibers with a very large diameter (big fibers). The objective of the present study is to determine if these big fibers are the result of residual innervation/reinnervation, or if instead they are fibers resistant to atrophy.
METHODS: Human muscle biopsies were harvested from the vastus lateralis of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients affected by complete lower motor neuron lesion (LML). The specimens were either processed for light microscopy or embedded for electron microscopy (EM).
RESULTS: Our results indicate that the big fibers are neither the results of residual innervation or sparse reinnervation. In spite of the fact that the extrasynaptic NCAM immunostaining disappear a few months after SCI, the big fibers are characterized by positive molecular markers of denervation, that is, the differential labeling of their dystrophin molecule by anti-C and anti-N terminals antibodies. Furthermore, the EM analysis shows that these cells present the peculiar ultrastructural disarrangements of the contractile apparatus and of the internal membrane systems characteristic of 'peripheral denervation'. No fibers presenting large areas of cross-striation were found. The EM analysis provides the final evidence that these big fibers are muscle fibers which are indeed denervated, very different from normal and/or disused (e.g. upper motor neuron lesion) muscle fibers.
DISCUSSION: Although these large muscle fibers are surprisingly more frequent in human muscle biopsies after 3 years from SCI than earlier, it remains to be determined whether their presence in some biopsies but not in others is caused by sampling, or is related to other factors such as to subjects' background genetics, or the extent of passive stretching induced by different rehabilitation strategies.
METHODS: Human muscle biopsies were harvested from the vastus lateralis of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients affected by complete lower motor neuron lesion (LML). The specimens were either processed for light microscopy or embedded for electron microscopy (EM).
RESULTS: Our results indicate that the big fibers are neither the results of residual innervation or sparse reinnervation. In spite of the fact that the extrasynaptic NCAM immunostaining disappear a few months after SCI, the big fibers are characterized by positive molecular markers of denervation, that is, the differential labeling of their dystrophin molecule by anti-C and anti-N terminals antibodies. Furthermore, the EM analysis shows that these cells present the peculiar ultrastructural disarrangements of the contractile apparatus and of the internal membrane systems characteristic of 'peripheral denervation'. No fibers presenting large areas of cross-striation were found. The EM analysis provides the final evidence that these big fibers are muscle fibers which are indeed denervated, very different from normal and/or disused (e.g. upper motor neuron lesion) muscle fibers.
DISCUSSION: Although these large muscle fibers are surprisingly more frequent in human muscle biopsies after 3 years from SCI than earlier, it remains to be determined whether their presence in some biopsies but not in others is caused by sampling, or is related to other factors such as to subjects' background genetics, or the extent of passive stretching induced by different rehabilitation strategies.