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The ever-expanding arsenal of genetically modified mice has created experimental models for studying various mechanisms of deafness. Electrocochleography (ECochG) is a recording technique of cochlear potentials evoked by sound stimulation, which was widely used to evaluate the cochlear hearing function. However, there is currently a lack of information on long-term recording technology of ECochG in mice.
The two-dimensional videographic analysis of vibrissal movements in behaving rodents has become a standard method to estimate the degree of functional impairment and recovery after facial nerve injuries quantitatively. The main limitation of the method is the time consuming, uneconomic process of manually tracking the vibrissae in video sequences.
Biomedical implants used in tissue engineering repairs, such as scaffolds to repair peripheral nerves, can be too large to examine completely with histological analyses. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) with contrast agents allows ex vivo visualization of entire biomaterial implants and their interactions with tissues, but contrast agents can interfere with histological analyses of the tissues or cause shrinkage or loss of antigenicity.
We have shown previously that retrogradely-transported cholera toxin B (CTB)-saporin has eliminated sympathetic preganglionic neurons by 7 days after injection (Llewellyn-Smith, I.J., Martin, C.L., Arnolda, L.F., Minson, J.B., 1999. NeuroReport 10, 307). To ascertain whether this tracer-toxin can kill other types of neurons that transport CTB retrogradely with a similar time course, we injected CTB-saporin into the facial nerves of rats and allowed them to survive for 7 days. Facial motoneurons were counted ipsilateral and contralateral to the injected nerves in sections of perfused medulla processed to reveal immunoreactivity for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). There was a statistically significant decrease in the number of ChAT-immunoreactive neurons ipsilateral to the injected nerve in three out of nine rats. Inadequate injections were probably the reason that most rats showed no decrease in motoneurons numbers after treatment with CTB-saporin, since the staining intensity and numbers of facial motoneurons that showed CTB-immunoreactivity varied markedly between rats after retrograde tracing with unconjugated CTB. These results show that CTB-saporin can eliminate motoneurons as well as sympathetic preganglionic neurons, indicate that protocols for the injection of tracer-toxins should be optimized to ensure maximum neuronal death and support our contention that CTB-saporin should kill any central neuron that expresses GM1 ganglioside, the membrane component to which CTB binds.
We have developed an easy and fast method to semiquantify low levels of mRNA from small amounts of brain tissues based on nonradioactive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The regulation of mRNA for the growth associated protein GAP-43/B-50 and the homeodomain protein islet-1 was examined in the facial nucleus of the rat after a unilateral transection of the nerve. In both cases a similar sensitivity for radioactive and nonradioactive RT-PCR methods was found. The expression of the housekeeping gene, cyclophilin A was used to normalize total mRNA amounts and PCR conditions. After amplification the PCR products were separated electrophoretically on polyacrylamide gels. For nonradioactive semiquantification gels were stained with ethidium bromide and recorded using a CCD camera and transillumination. The recordings were evaluated with specialized software. Using nonradioactive RT-PCR, the increase in GAP-43/B-50 mRNA in response to axotomy was easily detectable in the small volume of tissue obtained from the facial nucleus. In contrast, the low expression of islet-1 mRNA made it necessary to develop a two-step amplification procedure in order to provide a reliable semiquantitative analysis. The procedure included preamplification of the cDNA and subsequent purification of the cDNA. Using this method, the down-regulation of islet-1 could be demonstrated with a similar sensitivity to that previously shown with radioactive RT-PCR.
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