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JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
卷 66, 期 4, 页码 305-312出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1097/nen.0b013e3180408daa
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axon; demyelination; Guillain-Barre syndrome; inflammation; inflammatory neuropathy; nitric oxide; peripheral nerve; Schwann cell
Different lines of evidence suggest that nitric oxide (NO) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory neuropathies; however, it is still unclear which structures in the peripheral nerve are the primary targets of NO-mediated nerve injury. To address this issue, we determined the expression of NO metabolites in sural nerve biopsies and in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with inflammatory neuropathies and studied the pathologic effects of NO in an in vitro model of myelinated Schwarm cell-neuron cocultures. In cerebrospinal fluid samples, nitrite levels remained unaltered; however, nitrotyrosine, a marker for peroxynitrite formation, could be identified in nerve biopsies from patients with inflammatory neuropathies. In an in vitro model of Schwarm cell neuron cocultures, high concentrations of NO induced robust demyelination, which was the result of NO-mediated axonal injury, whereas Schwann cell viability remained unaffected. These findings suggest that in contrast to Schwarm cells, sensory neurons are the primary target of NO-mediated cytotoxicity and the loss of myelin is the result of selective damage to axons rather than a direct harmful effect to Schwann cells. Our findings imply that NO contributes to the pathologic changes seen in the inflamed peripheral nervous system, which is characterized by the features of axonal injury and subsequent myelin degradation, previously described as Wallerian-like degeneration.
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