Development of ongoing activity, mechanosensitivity, and adrenaline sensitivity in severed peripheral nerve axons
Development of ongoing activity, mechanosensitivity, and adrenaline sensitivity in severed peripheral nerve axons
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切断的周围神经轴突中持续活动、机械敏感性和肾上腺素敏感性的发展
DOI:
10.1016/0014-4886(81)90271-5
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
J. Scadding
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作者:
J. Scadding
Several abnormal properties develop in severed peripheral nerve axons. Three of these, ongoing activity, mechanical sensitivity, and adrenaline sensitivity were recorded in single fibers proximal to experimental neuromas produced by sciatic nerve transection in mice. Using a sampling technique, the percentages of myelinated fibers showing these abnormal properties were measured in 41 mice at various times after nerve transection, ranging from 1 h to 7 weeks. Abnormal afferent activity was first seen 24 h after nerve transection, with an early peak of ongoing activity, mechanical and adrenaline sensitivity, at 3 days. This was followed by a later, larger peak of activity from about 14 to 21 days. Activity after 21 days decreased which continued at least until 7 weeks. The period of maximum afferent barrage from neuromas, before 28 days, coincided with the period after nerve transection during which maximum self-mutilation of the anesthetic foot occured. It is proposed that there is a causal relationship between the afferent barrage from neuromas and mutilation of the anesthetic foot, and that afferent impulses from similar nerve lesions in man may be responsible for pain and paresthesiae that may result from such lesions.