We describe the expression and distribution patterns of nestin, desmin and vimentin in intact and regenerating muscle spindles of the rat hind limb skeletal muscles. Regeneration was induced by intramuscular isotransplantation of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) or soleus muscles from 15-day-old rats into the EDL muscle of adult female inbred Lewis rats. The host muscles with grafts were excised after 7-, 16-, 21- and 29-day survival and immunohistochemically stained. Nestin expression in intact spindles in host muscles was restricted to Schwann cells of sensory and motor nerves. In transplanted muscles, however, nestin expression was also found in regenerating "spindle fibers", 7 and 16 days after grafting. From the 21st day onwards, the regenerated spindle fibers were devoid of nestin immunoreactivity. Desmin was detected in spindle fibers at all developmental stages in regenerating as well as in intact spindles. Vimentin was expressed in cells of the outer and inner capsules of all muscle spindles and in newly formed myoblasts and myotubes of regenerating spindles 7 days after grafting. Our results show that the expression pattern of these intermediate filaments in regenerating spindle fibers corresponds to that found in regenerating extrafusal fibers, which supports our earlier suggestion that they resemble small-diameter extrafusal fibers.

• MeSH
• desmin analýza   MeSH
• kosterní svalová vlákna chemie   MeSH
• kosterní svaly chemie   transplantace   ultrastruktura   MeSH
• krysa rodu Rattus MeSH
• myoblasty chemie   MeSH
• nervosvalová vřeténka chemie   MeSH
• nestin MeSH
• potkani inbrední LEW MeSH
• proteiny intermediálních filament analýza   MeSH
• proteiny nervové tkáně analýza   MeSH
• regenerace * MeSH
• Schwannovy buňky chemie   MeSH
• vimentin analýza   MeSH
• zadní končetina MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• krysa rodu Rattus MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• desmin MeSH
• Nes protein, rat MeSH Prohlížeč
• nestin MeSH
• proteiny intermediálních filament MeSH
• proteiny nervové tkáně MeSH
• vimentin MeSH