Effects of Targeted Muscle Reinnervation on Spinal Cord Motor Neurons in Rats Following Tibial Nerve Transection

Overview

Journal Neural Regen Res

Date 2022 Jan 12

PMID 35017445

Authors

Wei Lu

Jian-Ping Li

Zhen-Dong Jiang

Lin Yang

Xue-Zheng Liu

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Abstract

Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is a surgical procedure used to transfer residual peripheral nerves from amputated limbs to targeted muscles, which allows the target muscles to become sources of motor control information for function reconstruction. However, the effect of TMR on injured motor neurons is still unclear. In this study, we aimed to explore the effect of hind limb TMR surgery on injured motor neurons in the spinal cord of rats after tibial nerve transection. We found that the reduction in hind limb motor function and atrophy in mice caused by tibial nerve transection improved after TMR. TMR enhanced nerve regeneration by increasing the number of axons and myelin sheath thickness in the tibial nerve, increasing the number of anterior horn motor neurons, and increasing the number of choline acetyltransferase-positive cells and immunofluorescence intensity of synaptophysin in rat spinal cord. Our findings suggest that TMR may enable the reconnection of residual nerve fibers to target muscles, thus restoring hind limb motor function on the injured side.

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