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Axonal Regeneration through Heat Pretreated Muscle Autografts

An immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study

S. M. HALL
K. ENVER

From the Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy’s Campus, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London, UK

Correspondence: Dr S. M. Hall, Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy’s Hospital, London Bridge, London SE1 9RT, UK.

We have compared the regeneration of axons through frozen-thawed or heated muscle autografts in the sciatic nerve of adult rats. Our results have shown that axons regenerate through muscle grafts which had been either frozen-thawed or heated to 60°C prior to transplantation. However, axons failed to regenerate through muscle grafts which had been pre-heated to 80°C. We speculate that this difference may be related to the thermal lability of components of muscle basal lamina, such as laminin and fibronectin, which are known to play an important role in axonal outgrowth.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 19, No. 4, 444-451 (1994)
DOI: 10.1016/0266-7681(94)90208-9
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