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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 8, 3584-3597, Copyright © 1988 by Society for Neuroscience

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The pattern of dendritic sprouting and retraction induced by axotomy of lamprey central neurons

GF Hall and MJ Cohen
Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.

We have investigated some of the factors controlling the distribution of axonal and dendritic sprouting following axotomy of a subset of Muller giant interneurons (anterior bulbar cells or ABCs) in the hindbrain of the larval sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). Sprouts originated from different sites in the cell depending on the distance of the axonal lesion from the soma. When the axon was cut close to the soma (within 500 microns), the dendritic tips sprouted profusely, whereas the proximal axon stump showed few sprouts and frequently disappeared entirely. Axotomy further from the soma (1000-1400 microns) resulted in less sprouting from the dendrites and more from the axon stump, with the total amount of dendritic plus axonal sprouting remaining constant. Axotomy at sites distant from the soma (1 cm or more) did not result in dendritic sprouting. No sprouts were ever observed emerging from the soma proper or from the axon stump except at the lesion site. Neuritic sprouts from dendrites and axon were similar in their gross morphology. Sprouts resembled axons rather than dendrites whatever their sites of origin; they followed linear, rostrocaudally oriented paths in the "basal plate" region of the hindbrain. Dendritic and axonal sprouts grew both rostrally and caudally within the brain. Either "close" or "distant" axotomy resulted in the retraction of the dendritic tree and of both dendritic and axonal sprouts by several months postaxotomy. Reaxotomy close to the soma 30 d after a distant axotomy accelerated the onset of this evoked dendritic retraction. Reaxotomy close to the soma also induced sprouting significantly sooner than did close axotomy alone. These results suggest that axotomy close to the soma causes axonal regeneration to be shunted into ectopic locations at the dendritic tips. The emerging sprouts then follow guidance cues appropriate for regenerating ABC axons.

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