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Volume 16, Number 16, Issue of August 15, 1996 pp. 5189-5195
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience

Collateral Sprouting of Uninjured Primary Afferent A-Fibers into the Superficial Dorsal Horn of the Adult Rat Spinal Cord after Topical Capsaicin Treatment to the Sciatic Nerve

Richard J. Mannion1, Tim P. Doubell1, Richard E. Coggeshall2, and Clifford J. Woolf1

1 Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, and 2 Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Marine Biomedical Institute, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1069

ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES

ABSTRACT

That terminals of uninjured primary sensory neurons terminating in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord can collaterally sprout was first suggested by Liu and Chambers (1958), but this has since been disputed. Recently, horseradish peroxidase conjugated to the B subunit of cholera toxin (B-HRP) and intracellular HRP injections have shown that sciatic nerve section or crush produces a long-lasting rearrangement in the organization of primary afferent central terminals, with A-fibers sprouting into lamina II, a region that normally receives only C-fiber input (Woolf et al., 1992). The mechanism of this A-fiber sprouting has been thought to involve injury-induced C-fiber transganglionic degeneration combined with myelinated A-fibers being conditioned into a regenerative growth state.

In this study, we ask whether C-fiber degeneration and A-fiber conditioning are both necessary for the sprouting of A-fibers into lamina II. Local application of the C-fiber-specific neurotoxin capsaicin to the sciatic nerve has previously been shown to result in C-fiber damage and degenerative atrophy in lamina II. We have used B-HRP to transganglionically label A-fiber central terminals and have shown that 2 weeks after topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve, the pattern of B-HRP staining in the dorsal horn is indistinguishable from that seen after axotomy, with lamina II displaying novel staining in the identical region containing capsaicin-treated C-fiber central terminals.

These results suggest that after C-fiber injury, uninjured A-fiber central terminals can collaterally sprout into lamina II of the dorsal horn. This phenomenon may help to explain the pain associated with C-fiber neuropathy.

Key words: regeneration; pain; plasticity; sensory neuron; injury; C-fiber

INTRODUCTION

Collateral sprouting can be defined as the growth of intact axons into neighboring denervated territory. Partial denervation, as a result of nerve lesions, results in the collateral sprouting of both small (Diamond et al., 1992) and large (Doubleday and Robinson, 1994) intact primary sensory axons in the periphery (Kinnman, 1987). Centrally, however, collateral sprouting of primary afferents has been long disputed. In 1958, Liu and Chambers presented data from Golgi studies and suggested that central axons of intact sensory neurons sprouted into regions of dorsal horn denervated by section of adjacent dorsal roots. Since then, the notion that denervation alone is sufficient to induce sprouting of the central axons of uninjured primary sensory neurons has been both supported (Murray and Goldberger, 1986; Polistina et al., 1987; Wang et al., 1987; LaMotte et al., 1989; McNeill et al., 1990, 1991; LaMotte and Kapadia, 1993) and disputed (Rodin and Kruger, 1984; Seltzer and Devor, 1984; Molander et al., 1988; Pubols and Bowen, 1988; McMahon and Kett-White, 1991).

It is clear, however, that central axons of primary sensory neurons conditioned by a cut or crush lesion of their peripheral axons undergo significant central growth, both into peripheral nerve grafts (Richardson and Issa, 1984; Richardson and Verge, 1986) and into partially denervated neighboring territories outside normal projection fields (Molander et al., 1988; McMahon and Kett-White, 1991). Peripheral nerve injury also results in a rearrangement of the highly ordered laminar termination of primary afferents within somatotopically appropriate regions of the dorsal horn (Woolf et al., 1992). Large myelinated mechanoreceptive Abeta fibers normally terminate in lamina III-VI, small myelinated nociceptive Adelta fibers in laminae I and V, and small unmyelinated nociceptive C-fibers in lamina II (substantia gelatinosa) (Brown, 1981; Molander et al., 1984; Molander and Grant, 1985; Willis and Coggeshall, 1991). After injury, however, using B fragment of cholera toxin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (B-HRP) to selectively label myelinated fibers (Robertson and Grant, 1985; Rivero-Melian and Grant, 1990; Robertson et al., 1991), peripheral axotomy has been shown to cause long-lasting sprouting of A-fibers into lamina II, an area in which they do not normally terminate (Woolf et al., 1992; Koerber et al., 1994; Woolf et al., 1995). Intracellular injections have shown that at least some of these fibers are Abeta afferents from lamina III (Woolf et al., 1992; Shortland and Woolf, 1993; Koerber et al., 1994).

The A-fiber sprouting into lamina II after peripheral nerve injury is thought to result from a combination of two phenomena (Woolf et al., 1995). The first is the presence of vacant synaptic sites within the superficial dorsal horn as a consequence of transganglionic degeneration (Arvidsson et al., 1986; Kapadia and LaMotte, 1987; Himes and Tessler, 1989) or atrophy (Knyihar-Csillik et al., 1987; Castro-Lopes et al., 1990) of unmyelinated C-fibers. The second is the induction of a regenerative capacity in the injured neurons (Skene, 1989), presumably because of upregulation of developmentally regulated growth-related proteins such as GAP-43 (Chong et al., 1992). GAP-43 is transported to central terminals of injured sensory neurons in lamina II (Woolf et al., 1990), which is the region that contains novel transganglionic B-HRP labeling (Woolf et al., 1995). Therefore, peripheral nerve injury may induce both the molecular machinery necessary for growth and provide a denervated area for the sprouts to grow into. This type of growth has been termed conditioned collateral sprouting (Woolf et al., 1995).

In this study, we have tried to determine whether A-fibers can collaterally sprout into partially denervated regions of lamina II without a conditioning stimulus to their peripheral axons. Topical nerve treatment with capsaicin, a C-fiber-specific neurotoxin, has been shown to cause transganglionic degeneration exclusively within the C-fiber population of primary afferents (Jancso and Lawson, 1990; Pini et al., 1990; Jancso, 1992) without injuring A-fibers (Wall and Fitzgerald, 1981; Fitzgerald, 1983). We have mapped the distribution of sciatic A-fibers in the dorsal horn with B-HRP to assess whether A-fiber central terminals sprout into lamina II after topical capsaicin treatment.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Adult male Sprague Dawley rats (150-200 gm, n = 24) were anesthetized with halothane (induction 4% and maintenance 2.5%).

Surgical procedures. The left sciatic nerve was exposed at mid-thigh level under sterile conditions, and plastic film was placed underneath the nerve to isolate it from surrounding tissues (n = 24). Cotton wool pledgets soaked in either 1.5% capsaicin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) in olive oil (n = 12) or olive oil alone (sham-operated animals; n = 10) were applied to a 1 cm length of nerve for 20 min before being removed. In two animals, the sciatic nerve was axotomized and the proximal stump was ligated without any capsaicin or sham treatment. Overlying muscle and skin were then sutured in two layers, and the animals were left to recover.

Thiamine monophosphatase histochemistry. One week after surgery, two capsaicin-treated animals were terminally anesthetized with 1.6 gm/kg sodium pentobarbitone and perfused with 200 ml of saline followed by 1 l of ice-cold 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4. L6-L3 segment boundaries were identified from their dorsal roots and marked with vertical midline pins. The lumbar cord was removed and 50 µm transverse sections were cut on a freezing microtome and placed free-floating in individual wells in 0.1 M phosphate buffer before being mounted on gelatin-coated slides and air dried for 1 hr. The dried sections were then incubated for 90 min at 37°C in 0.25% thiamine monophosphate chloride and 0.08% lead nitrite in 0.04 M Tris-maleate buffer, pH 5.6, rinsed in 0.04 M Tris-maleate buffer, and developed in 1% aqueous ammonium sulfide. Sections were rinsed in water and coverslipped using glycerine jelly.

Electron microscopy. Two weeks after surgery, two capsaicin-operated and two sham-operated animals were terminally anesthetized (as above) and perfused with 3% glutaraldehyde, 3% paraformaldehyde, and 0.1% picric acid in 0.1 M phosphate buffer. The sciatic nerves distal to previous treatment were removed and stored in the same fixative overnight. After several rinses in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, the nerve segments were incubated in 2% osmium tetroxide for 1 hr, rinsed in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, and dehydrated in a series of graded alcohol solutions before being embedded in an Epon-Araldite mixture. Ultrathin sections were cut with a diamond knife (Diatome, Fort Washington, PA) and mounted on Formvar-covered single-hole grids. Photomicrographs were taken on a Phillips transmission electron microscope.

B-HRP labeling. Two weeks after surgery, eight capsaicin-treated animals, eight sham-operated animals, two animals with sciatic nerve section, and two naive animals were anesthetized with halothane. Left sciatic nerves were reexposed and injected with 1 µl of B-HRP (List, 1.5% dissolved in distilled water) proximal to the treatment site. Three days later, the animals were terminally anesthetized (as above) and perfused with 200 ml of saline followed by 1 l of 1% paraformaldehyde and 1.25% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4. L6-L3 segmental boundaries were identified, and the lumbar cord was removed. HRP reaction product was visualized using the tetramethyl benzidine technique outlined by Mesulam (1978). Sections were mounted on gelatin-coated slides and air dried overnight before being cleared in Histoclear and coverslipped using DPX.

Somatotopic maps. The pattern of labeling in consecutive sections was examined using light microscopy, and the extent of mediolateral labeling in lamina II was drawn on graph paper using a flat-field camera lucida. Because the lateral part of the superficial dorsal horn curves ventrally, a horizontal line would significantly underestimate the true width of lamina II. For this reason, measurements were made along a curved line that followed the contour of lamina II. The mediolateral width of staining in lamina II, along with the distance between the medial border of the dorsal horn and the midline, was plotted as a percentage of the total width of lamina II to standardize the measurements between animals. Measurements from consecutive sections of spinal cord were plotted on graph paper to form a somatotopic map of B-HRP staining in lamina II.

RESULTS

Local effects of capsaicin treatment

The morphology and number of myelinated axonal profiles in the sciatic nerve distal to the site of capsaicin treatment was comparable to that of sham-treated sciatic nerves (7628 and 8239, respectively), with no evidence whatsoever of Wallerian degeneration in these fibers (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Electron microscopic photomontage of a transverse section through distal sciatic nerve 2 weeks after topical capsaicin treatment. Scale bar, 200 µm.
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Central effects of capsaicin treatment: thiamine monophosphatase histochemistry

Thiamine monophosphatase (TMP) is expressed in a subpopulation of small dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons with unmyelinated axons that contain cell surface glycoconjugates recognized by the monoclonal antibody LA4 and the isolectin IB4 (Silverman and Kruger, 1990). The majority of these cells are nonpeptidergic and terminate within lamina II inner (Alvarez et al., 1991). For animals with intact sciatic nerves, TMP labeling was present throughout the full mediolateral extent of lamina II inner in the lumbar spinal cord. After capsaicin treatment of the sciatic nerve, TMP activity was totally depleted in the central field of sciatic C-fibers, which is the medial 1/2 to 3/4 of the lumbar enlargement (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Bright-field photomicrograph of a 50 µm transverse section through the spinal cord showing TMP labeling in lamina II of the L5 dorsal horn 1 week after unilateral topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve. Note the absence of staining of the medial three-quarters of lamina II (arrows) ipsilateral to the treatment. Scale bar, 200 µm.
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B-HRP labeling: control

In the eight sham-operated animals, the labeling pattern of transganglionically transported B-HRP in the dorsal horn of lumbar cord after injection into the sciatic nerve was essentially identical to that seen for naive animals. Widespread staining was observed in all dorsal horn laminae apart from the substantia gelatinosa, lamina II. Staining was evident at the L6/S1 border and extended across the medial three-quarters of lamina III at the L5/L6 segment border (Fig. 3a). Around the L4/L3 border, a gap appeared in the center of the sciatic nerve labeling that increased in width rostrally (Fig. 3b), representing the central terminals of saphenous nerve afferents (Swett and Woolf, 1985; LaMotte et al., 1991). At no point was there staining in lamina II throughout the length of the lumbar spinal cord.
Fig. 3. Bright-field photomicrographs of 50 µm transverse sections through the dorsal horn showing B-HRP labeling of central terminals of the sciatic nerve in a sham-operated animal at the L5 (a) and L3 (b) level. Note that lamina II is devoid of any B-HRP reaction product (arrows). Territory occupied by saphenous afferent central terminals can be seen to interrupt B-HRP labeling in the center of the dorsal horn in b. In a capsaicin-treated animal at L5 (c) and L3 (d), lamina II now displays dense B-HRP staining (arrows). Scale bar, 200 µm.
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B-HRP labeling: capsaicin treatment

The B-HRP labeling in the eight capsaicin-treated animals extended to include lamina II as well as the other dorsal horn laminae (Fig. 3c,d) and was effectively indistinguishable from the B-HRP labeling observed 2 weeks after sciatic nerve transection.

Somatotopic maps

For the capsaicin-treated animals, the somatotopic distribution of the sprouted B-HRP terminals in lamina II overlapped almost exactly with the zone of TMP depletion (Fig. 4), and no difference was found between the extent and distribution of B-HRP staining in lamina II after axotomy or capsaicin treatment of the sciatic nerve (Fig. 4).
Fig. 4. Schematic horizontal map of the somatotopic distribution at the lamina II level in the lumbar enlargement (L3-L6 segments) of B-HRP staining 2 weeks after peripheral axotomy, TMP depletion 1 week after topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve, and B-HRP staining 2 weeks after topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve. The pictures are essentially indistinguishable.
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DISCUSSION

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether injury to those sensory C-fibers that terminate in lamina II is sufficient to induce collateral sprouting of intact A-fibers, or whether A-fibers must also be primed by peripheral axonal injury, as proposed previously (Woolf et al., 1992, 1995). In this study, we have demonstrated that topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve results in novel transganglionic B-HRP staining in lamina II. These results suggest either that atrophy restricted to C-fiber terminals in lamina II is sufficient to cause collateral sprouting of uninjured A-fibers into this novel territory or that injured C-fiber terminals release a growth promoting/attractant factor that stimulates intact A-fibers to sprout to the source of the factor in lamina II. This assessment assumes that capsaicin treatment causes toxicity exclusively within the C-fiber population and has no effect on A-fibers. It is therefore important to examine the extent to which capsaicin affects unmyelinated fibers, and whether myelinated A-fibers are affected in any way.

As a ``specific'' toxin for nociceptive C-fibers, capsaicin has been used extensively in pain research, and a ``capsaicin-induced analgesia'' has been described after various modes of administration (Palermo et al., 1981; Fitzgerald, 1983; Szallasi, 1994). Local application of capsaicin to the sciatic nerve causes an immediate conduction block in C-fibers (Baranowski et al., 1986) and a reduction in the C- but not the A-fiber component of the compound action potential (Wall and Fitzgerald, 1981; Pini et al., 1990). There is inhibition of axonal transport of substance P and somatostatin, but not norepinephrine (Gamse et al., 1982), showing that capsaicin's action is not on unmyelinated axons per se but on unmyelinated sensory axons. Transganglionic degenerative changes have been described in lamina II after topical capsaicin treatment (Jancso, 1992), which may also explain reduced neuropeptide content within the superficial dorsal horn (Ainsworth et al., 1981; Fitzgerald, 1983), although this could be the consequence of reduced transcription. In the present study, local nerve capsaicin treatment induced a total depletion of TMP in lamina IIi, as found previously (Ainsworth et al., 1981; Gamse et al., 1982). Long-term loss of unmyelinated axons has been detected in the capsaicin-treated nerve, without any evidence of myelinated fiber loss or degeneration (Jancso and Lawson, 1990; Pini et al., 1990) In this study, no Wallerian degeneration or reduction in myelinated fiber numbers was seen. Thus, it seems that the effects of capsaicin, which are thought to be receptor-mediated (Szallasi, 1994), are selective to small afferent fibers (Winter et al., 1995).

It was previously believed that A-fiber sprouting into lamina II was dependent on two conditions: C-fiber injury and A-fiber conditioning (Woolf et al., 1995). The present findings suggest that sprouting can occur after C-fiber injury alone. The signaling mechanism responsible for A-fiber sprouting both after nerve injury and after a neurotoxic injury restricted to C-fibers is unknown, although a number of factors could potentially be involved. Peripheral nerve injury may induce the expression in C-fibers of a factor that induces A-fiber sprouting in the dorsal horn. Peripheral axotomy does change the expression of proteins and peptides in primary sensory neurons (Hokfelt et al., 1994), and the mRNA levels for the neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been shown to increase in the DRG after peripheral axotomy (Sebert and Shooter, 1993). TrkA, the high-affinity receptor for NGF (Ip et al., 1993; Barbacid, 1994; Kaplan and Stephens, 1994), is expressed in cells with small fibers (DiStefano et al., 1992; Mu et al., 1993; McMahon et al., 1994), whereas the receptor for BDNF, TrkB, is expressed on an intermediate-sized population of DRG cells (Wright and Snider, 1995), possibly those with mechanoreceptive Abeta fibers (Schecterson and Bothwell, 1992; Mu et al., 1993). Interestingly, BDNF upregulation has been found to occur in TrkA-expressing cells after either systemic NGF administration (Apfel et al., 1995) or sciatic nerve section (Verge et al., 1995) (the same cells that will be capsaicin-responsive), and it is conceivable that both nerve injury and capsaicin treatment induce a paracrine signaling between C and A primary afferents. For example, TrkA-expressing C-fiber cells could release BDNF after nerve injury that acts on TrkB-expressing A-fiber cells to initiate a growth response in the TrkB cells, leading to sprouting of A-fibers in the dorsal horn. This signaling may occur either within the DRG or more likely in the superficial dorsal horn, as neurotrophins can be transported anterogradely as well as retrogradely along axons (von Bartheld et al., 1996). C-fiber central terminals have been shown to release transganglionic tracer into the dorsal horn after nerve injury, which spreads extrasynaptically, a phenomenon that is not observed in uninjured C-fibers (Valtschanoff et al., 1992, 1995).

Alternatively, C-fiber atrophy and loss of input to lamina II may trigger responses within the superficial dorsal horn that initiate A-fiber sprouting. It is unlikely that vacant synaptic sites would be sufficient to induce growth in distant afferent terminals, but other changes secondary to terminal degeneration may be responsible. Gliosis and an increase in glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity in the superficial dorsal horn occur after peripheral nerve injury (Hajos et al., 1990) and involve astroglial cell hypertrophy (Gilmore et al., 1990) before morphological reorganization of afferent terminals (Svensson et al., 1993). Similarly, nerve injury results in a rise in the number of microglia in the dorsal horn (Svensson et al., 1993), and the function of these microglia may involve activities other than phagocytosis of degenerating terminals (Knyihar-Csillik et al., 1990). Interestingly, peripheral nerve transection induces an increase in tyrosine phosphorylation in astroglial cells (and to a lesser extent in microglia) that is most prominent in the superficial dorsal horn (Eckert et al., 1994) and which may represent a signaling mechanism from C-fibers to glial cells. C-fibers may release neurotrophic factor(s) that act on neuronal and non-neuronal cells expressing the appropriate trk receptors (Valtschanoff et al., 1995) and may directly or indirectly promote A-fibers to grow into lamina II. At present, it is not possible to quantify the extent of denervation produced by either peripheral axotomy or perineural capsaicin application or determine whether the amount of denervation correlates with the amount of collateral sprouting. Qualitatively, at least, the sprouting produced by complete section of the sciatic nerve and local damage restricted to the C-fiber component of the nerve was indistinguishable.

Whatever the mechanism responsible for initiating A-fiber growth, the demonstration that uninjured A-fibers can sprout into lamina II in response to C-fiber injury is an example of genuine primary afferent collateral sprouting within the adult CNS. The fact that such sprouting results in A-fiber input entering an area of cord that normally only processes C-fiber input may help to explain the pain associated with C-fiber neuropathies. Interestingly, several clinical studies have reported the beneficial use of low-dose capsaicin cream applied to hypersensitive skin in conditions like postherpetic neuralgia (Watson et al., 1993), diabetic neuropathy (Tandan et al., 1992), and trigeminal neuralgia (Fusco and Alessandri, 1992). Because many patients receiving such treatment already have allodynia, it will be difficult to assess whether it introduces a novel neuropathic pain. However, it is unlikely that chronic low-dose capsaicin cream results in an anatomical reorganization in the spinal cord, because a long-term study of the effects of topical, cutaneous, low-dose capsaicin cream application in rats failed to show any of the neuropeptide changes reported after perineural capsaicin treatment (McMahon et al., 1991).

FOOTNOTES

Received April 4, 1996; revised May 30, 1996; accepted June 3, 1996.

  

This work was supported by the Medical Research Council, National Institutes of Health (NS11255 and NS10161), and the European Union. We thank Jacqueta Meredith-Middleton for technical assistance.

Correspondence should be addressed to Clifford J. Woolf, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.


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