Brain, Vol. 124, No. 11, 2319-2334,
November 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Does diabetes target ganglion neurones?
Progressive sensory neurone involvement in long-term experimental diabetes
1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, 2 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Correspondence to:
Dr D. W. Zochodne, University of Calgary, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Room 182A, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1 E-mail: dzochodn@ucalgary.ca
Targeting of dorsal root ganglia by diabetes could account for the selective sensory abnormalities that patients with early diabetic polyneuropathy develop. In this work, we addressed survival, phenotype and gene expression in sensory neurones in lumbar dorsal root ganglia in a long-term model of experimental streptozotocin-induced diabetes in rats, designed to reflect human disease. Motor and sensory conduction slowing developed early, by the 2-month time point. At 2 months, sensory neurones had no detectable alterations in their calibre or gene expression, assessed using quantitative in situ hybridization studies for mRNA markers that included 
CGRP, ßCGRP, NFM, t1-tubulin, SP, VIP, B50 (GAP43), galanin, somatostatin, PACAP, HSP27, c-jun, SNAP 25, p75, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC. By 12 months, however, diabetics had developed neurone perikaryal and distal axon atrophy, accompanied by generalized downregulation of mRNA expression, particularly of CGRP transcripts, PACAP, SP, NFM, p75, trkA and trkC. With the exception of HSP-27, no elevation in mRNAs that increase after injury, such as VIP, galanin, CCK, PACAP, B50 and t1-tubulin, was observed and constitutive levels, when detectable, trended towards lower rather than increased levels. There was relative preservation of neurone numbers at 12 months; only a non-significant trend towards fewer diabetic neurones was detected using a rigorous and systematic physical dissector counting approach through the entire L5 ganglia. There was no change in the relative populations of CGRP- and SP-immunoreactive neurones. Our findings indicate that even long-term experimental diabetes is associated with relative preservation of sensory neurone populations, but the neurones are atrophic and their gene expression is altered. This pattern of change differs from that following axotomy, implies a degenerative rather than an injury phenotype and has important implications for how such neurones might be rescued.
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