CAROTID-BODY GRAFTS INDUCE CHEMOSENSITIVITY IN MUSCLE NERVE-FIBERS OF THE CAT
CAROTID-BODY GRAFTS INDUCE CHEMOSENSITIVITY IN MUSCLE NERVE-FIBERS OF THE CAT
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(83)90793-x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
EYZAGUIRRE, C
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作者:
MONTIBLOCH, L;STENSAAS, LJ;EYZAGUIRRE, C
The ability of carotid body parenchymal cells to change the physiological properties of nerve fibers was tested in 8 cats by transplanting the carotid body to the tenuissimus muscle and reinnervating the organ with the muscle nerve. After the transplant, 94-174 days, electrophysiological recordings were obtained from the reinnervating tenuissimus nerves. Of the regenerating nerve fibers having spontaneous activity 40% responded to muscle stretch, hypoxia, NaCN, ACh [acetylcholine], nicotine and dopamine, apparently because of dual innervation of glomus cells and muscle spindles. Of 6 transplants examined by EM, 5 contained viable glomus cells innervated by axon terminals. Neither the normal tenuissimus nerve nor the same nerve regenerating into adipose tissue grafts or to one non-viable carotid body transplant showed chemosensory properties although these grafts contained numerous, small myelinated axons indicative of extensive nerve regeneration. Carotid body cells are capable of inducing chemosensory properties in axons that normally subserve a mechanosensory function.