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From the Department of Neurology,*
Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany; the
Department of Pathology,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire; and
the Department of Neurochemistry,
National
Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan
Macrophages play a central role in the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy but the role of resident endoneurial macrophages is undefined because no discriminating markers exist to distinguish them from infiltrating hematogenous macrophages. We identified and characterized resident endoneurial macrophages during Wallerian degeneration in radiation bone marrow chimeric rats created by transplanting wild-type Lewis rat bone marrow into irradiated TK-tsa transgenic Lewis rats. In such animals, resident cells carry the transgene, whereas hematogenous cells do not. As early as 2 days after sciatic nerve crush and before the influx of hematogenous macrophages, resident transgene-positive endoneurial macrophages underwent morphological and immunophenotypic signs of activation. At the same time, resident macrophages phagocytosing myelin were found, and proliferation was detected by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation. Continuous bromodeoxyuridine feeding revealed that resident endoneurial macrophages sequentially retracted their processes, proliferated, and expressed the ED1 antigen, rendering them morphologically indistinguishable from hematogenous macrophages. Resident endoneurial macrophages thus play an early and active role in the cellular events after nerve lesion before hematogenous macrophages enter the nerve. They may thus be critically involved in the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy particularly at early stages of the disease and may act as sensors of pathology much like their central nervous system counterparts, the microglial cells.
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