Jianshu Ni1, Takahisa Suzuki2, Sergei V Karnup2, Baojun Gu3, Naoki Yoshimura4. 1. Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, PA, USA; Department of Urology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. 2. Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, PA, USA. 3. Department of Urology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth's People's Hospital, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: gubaojun@yahoo.com. 4. Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: nyos@pitt.edu.
Abstract
AIM: To investigate the effect of nerve growth factor (NGF) neutralization on Na+ channel plasticity of bladder afferent neurons in mice with spinal cord injury (SCI). MAIN METHODS: Female C57/BL6 mice were randomly divided into spinal intact (SI) group, SCI group and SCI + NGF-Ab group. SCI was induced by spinal cord transection at the Th8/9 level. In SCI + NGF-Ab group, anti-NGF antibodies (10 μg·kg-1 per hour) were continuously administered for 2 weeks using osmotic pumps. Bladder afferent neurons were labelled with Fluoro‑gold (FG) injected into the bladder wall. L6-S1 dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons were dissociated and whole-cell patch clamp recordings were performed on FG-labelled neurons. Expression of Nav1.7 and Nav1.8 was examined by immunofluorescent staining. KEY FINDINGS: Whole-cell patch clamp recordings showed that TTX only partially inhibited action potentials (AP) and Na+ currents of bladder afferent neurons in SI mice, but it almost completely inhibited them in SCI mice. Total and TTX-sensitive Na+ currents were increased and TTX-resistant currents were decreased in bladder afferent neurons from SCI mice vs. SI mice. These changes in SCI mice were significantly reversed by NGF-antibody treatment. Immunostaining results showed the increased and decreased levels of Nav1.7 and Nav1.8, respectively, in FG-labelled bladder afferent neurons in SCI mice vs. SI mice, which was significantly reversed in SCI + NGF-Ab mice. SIGNIFICANCE: NGF mediates the Na+ channel plasticity with a shift from TTX-resistant Nav1.8 to TTX-sensitive Nav1.7 in bladder afferent neurons, which could be a possible underlying mechanism of bladder afferent hyperexcitability and detrusor overactivity after SCI.
AIM: To investigate the effect of nerve growth factor (NGF) neutralization on Na+ channel plasticity of bladder afferent neurons in mice with spinal cord injury (SCI). MAIN METHODS: Female C57/BL6 mice were randomly divided into spinal intact (SI) group, SCI group and SCI + NGF-Ab group. SCI was induced by spinal cord transection at the Th8/9 level. In SCI + NGF-Ab group, anti-NGF antibodies (10 μg·kg-1 per hour) were continuously administered for 2 weeks using osmotic pumps. Bladder afferent neurons were labelled with Fluoro‑gold (FG) injected into the bladder wall. L6-S1 dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons were dissociated and whole-cell patch clamp recordings were performed on FG-labelled neurons. Expression of Nav1.7 and Nav1.8 was examined by immunofluorescent staining. KEY FINDINGS: Whole-cell patch clamp recordings showed that TTX only partially inhibited action potentials (AP) and Na+ currents of bladder afferent neurons in SI mice, but it almost completely inhibited them in SCI mice. Total and TTX-sensitive Na+ currents were increased and TTX-resistant currents were decreased in bladder afferent neurons from SCI mice vs. SI mice. These changes in SCI mice were significantly reversed by NGF-antibody treatment. Immunostaining results showed the increased and decreased levels of Nav1.7 and Nav1.8, respectively, in FG-labelled bladder afferent neurons in SCI mice vs. SI mice, which was significantly reversed in SCI + NGF-Ab mice. SIGNIFICANCE: NGF mediates the Na+ channel plasticity with a shift from TTX-resistant Nav1.8 to TTX-sensitive Nav1.7 in bladder afferent neurons, which could be a possible underlying mechanism of bladder afferent hyperexcitability and detrusor overactivity after SCI.
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