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Immunocytochemical localization of S-100b protein in degenerating and regenerating rat sciatic nerves
A Spreca, MG Rambotti, M Rende, C Saccardi, MC Aisa, I Giambanco and R Donato
Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy.
We studied the cellular and subcellular distribution of S-100b protein in normal, crushed, and transected rat sciatic nerves by an immunocytochemical procedure. In uninjured nerves, S-100b protein was restricted to the cytoplasm and membranes of Schwann cells, with no reaction product present in the nucleus or in axons. Similar images were seen from the first to the thirtieth day after the crush in activated Schwann cells during the degeneration period, i.e., up to the seventh post-lesion day, and in normal Schwann cells reappearing during the regeneration period, i.e., after the seventh post-lesion day, in the zone of the crush and proximal and distal to it. By the technique employed, there seemed to be no differences in the intensity of the immune reaction product in normal and activated Schwann cells. Also, similar images were seen in the proximal stump of transected nerves. Only a slight S-100b protein immune reaction product could be observed in the rare activated Schwann cells present in the distal stump around the seventh post-lesion day, the majority of cell types being represented by fibroblasts and elongated cells at this stage and thereafter. By immunochemical assays, similar results as those presented here have been reported and interpreted as indicative of the presence of S-100 protein in axons or, alternatively, of axonal control over expression of S-100 protein in Schwann cells. Our immunocytochemical data clearly show that the strong reduction in the S- 100 protein content of the distal stump of transected nerves is owing to the paucity of Schwann cells and to the decrease in the S-100 protein content of these cells, rather than to degeneration of axons.
Volume 37,
Issue 4,
pp. 441-446,
04/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society
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