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AAV2-BDNF promotes respiratory axon plasticity and recovery of diaphragm function following spinal cord injury.


ABSTRACT: More than half of spinal cord injury (SCI) cases occur in the cervical region, leading to respiratory dysfunction due to damaged neural circuitry that controls critically important muscles such as the diaphragm. The C3-C5 spinal cord is the location of phrenic motor neurons (PhMNs) that are responsible for diaphragm activation; PhMNs receive bulbospinal excitatory drive predominately from supraspinal neurons of the rostral ventral respiratory group (rVRG). Cervical SCI results in rVRG axon damage, PhMN denervation, and consequent partial-to-complete paralysis of hemidiaphragm. In a rat model of C2 hemisection SCI, we expressed the axon guidance molecule, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), selectively at the location of PhMNs (ipsilateral to lesion) to promote directed growth of rVRG axons toward PhMN targets by performing intraspinal injections of adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (AAV2)-BDNF vector. AAV2-BDNF promoted significant functional diaphragm recovery, as assessed by in vivo electromyography. Within the PhMN pool ipsilateral to injury, AAV2-BDNF robustly increased sprouting of both spared contralateral-originating rVRG axons and serotonergic fibers. Furthermore, AAV2-BDNF significantly increased numbers of putative monosynaptic connections between PhMNs and these sprouting rVRG and serotonergic axons. These findings show that targeting circuit plasticity mechanisms involving the enhancement of synaptic inputs from spared axon populations is a powerful strategy for restoring respiratory function post-SCI.-Charsar, B. A., Brinton, M. A., Locke, K., Chen, A. Y., Ghosh, B., Urban, M. W., Komaravolu, S., Krishnamurthy, K., Smit, R., Pasinelli, P., Wright, M. C., Smith, G. M., Lepore, A. C. AAV2-BDNF promotes respiratory axon plasticity and recovery of diaphragm function following spinal cord injury.

SUBMITTER: Charsar BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894085 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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AAV2-BDNF promotes respiratory axon plasticity and recovery of diaphragm function following spinal cord injury.

Charsar Brittany A BA   Brinton Michael A MA   Locke Katherine K   Chen Anna Y AY   Ghosh Biswarup B   Urban Mark W MW   Komaravolu Sreeya S   Krishnamurthy Karthik K   Smit Rupert R   Pasinelli Piera P   Wright Megan C MC   Smith George M GM   Lepore Angelo C AC  

FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20191002 12


More than half of spinal cord injury (SCI) cases occur in the cervical region, leading to respiratory dysfunction due to damaged neural circuitry that controls critically important muscles such as the diaphragm. The C3-C5 spinal cord is the location of phrenic motor neurons (PhMNs) that are responsible for diaphragm activation; PhMNs receive bulbospinal excitatory drive predominately from supraspinal neurons of the rostral ventral respiratory group (rVRG). Cervical SCI results in rVRG axon damag  ...[more]

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