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Motoneuron death and a trophic substance. Yuhei MIYATA 1 1Department of Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School pp.904-909
Published Date 1991/12/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431900188
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 At embryonic stages, a large number of motoneurons die. This process is termed 'naturally occurring neuronal death'. It is hypothesised that the death of motoneurons results from a failure of making synapses with targets or a loss of trophic support.

 The target dependency hypothesis is generally accepted for the mechanism of naturally occurring or experimentally induced neuronal death at embyronic stages. However, it is not clear whether the motoneurons in maturity are also dependent on the targets for their survival. When sciatic nerves are cut in neonatal rats, a substantial number of motoneurons die. This axotomy induced death is, however, dependent on postnatal age. That is, no motoneurons die 4 weeks after birth. This may be due to a loss of target dependency with maturity. Another possibility is that it takes longer time for mature motoneurons to die, though target dependency is maintained. The latter possibility is supported by the fact that in human cases who have died more than 4 years after leg amputation, the large ventral horn cells, presumably motoneurons, were lost in the spinal cords of amputated side.


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