Innervation of the entire internal anal sphincter in a mouse model of Hirschsprung's disease: a first report.
Innervation of the entire internal anal sphincter in a mouse model of Hirschsprung's disease: a first report.
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先天性巨结肠症小鼠模型中整个肛门内括约肌的神经支配:第一份报告。
DOI:
10.1007/s00383-018-4397-z
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Yamataka A.
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作者:
Takeda M;Miyahara K;Sueyoshi R;Arakawa A;Lane GJ;Yamataka A.
BackgroundImpaired function of the internal anal sphincter (IAS) may be implicated in postoperative obstructed defecation (POD) that may complicate Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) patients. While innervation of part of the IAS in HD has been reported, accurate details based on anatomic landmarks that can explain the clinical morbidity seen in POD are lacking, and there appear to be no studies that specifically document the innervation of the “entire” IAS in HD. We used endothelin receptor-B knockout mice to represent HD (HD-mice) and C57B6 wild mice as controls (C-mice) to investigate the innervation of the entire IAS to assess the pathophysiology of POD experimentally.MethodsThe end-point of the longitudinal muscle layer was used to define the border between the IAS and the circular muscle layer (CML). Specimens of anorectum from HD- and C-mice were immunostained with PGP 9.5 and S100 as general nerve markers, nNOS and VIP as parasympathetic nerve markers, TH as a sympathetic nerve marker, and calretinin as a reliable diagnostic marker for HD. Immunostained cells/fibers were quantified using ImageJ.ResultsOn fluorescence microscopy, PGP 9.5, nNOS, and calretinin were significantly lower in the IAS of HD-mice than in C-mice (p< 0.05, respectively), while there were no significant differences between HD-mice and C-mice for S100, VIP, or TH.ConclusionWe are the first to confirm that the expression of histochemical markers of innervation is abnormal throughout the “entire” IAS in HD-mice. Application of this finding may be beneficial for preventing POD and requires further research.