Lectin and neuropeptide labeling of separate populations of dorsal root ganglion neurons and associated "nociceptor" thin axons in rat testis and cornea whole-mount preparations - PubMed (original) (raw)

Lectin and neuropeptide labeling of separate populations of dorsal root ganglion neurons and associated "nociceptor" thin axons in rat testis and cornea whole-mount preparations

J D Silverman et al. Somatosens Res. 1988.

Abstract

As part of a program to explore patterns of innervation by nociceptor-related thin sensory axons in a variety of peripheral regions, we have labeled calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactive (CGRP-IR) nerve fibers in whole mounts of rat testicular tunica vasculosa and cornea. Efforts were undertaken to visualize the numerically significant fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP)-containing axon population, whose peripheral endings have heretofore remained undemonstrable due to technical limitations of currently available acid phosphatase methods. Various histochemical markers that colocalize with FRAP in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and spinal cord were examined, and a plant lectin, Griffonia simplicifolia I-B4, has been identified that not only selectively labels FRAP(+) sensory ganglion cells and central terminals in spinal cord, but also differentially stains a large number of thin axons in testicular and corneal whole mounts. Slender lectin-labeled fibers are abundant in cornea, and are distributed throughout tunica vasculosa preparations unrelated to blood vessels. CGRP-IR axons, in contrast, maintain close adherence to vascular patterns and are more coarse and varicose in appearance. Lectin staining therefore provides the first practical and specific method for visualization of peripheral FRAP(+) axons consisting principally of sensory C fibers but possibly including a small number of unmyelinated autonomic axons. It should now be feasible, using individual whole-mount preparations from various peripheral nociceptor-innervated tissues, to examine the distributions of both peptidergic and FRAP(+) fibers, which together comprise the vast majority of thin sensory axons. It may then be possible to correlate the observed anatomical patterns with knowledge regarding properties of corresponding physiologically characterized receptive fields.

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Lectin and neuropeptide labeling of separate populations of dorsal root ganglion neurons and associated "nociceptor" thin axons in rat testis and cornea whole-mount preparations - PubMed (original) (raw)