The controversial hypothesis that intraspinal sprouting by dorsal root axons promotes reinnervation of partially denervated neurons caudal to a low thoracic cord hemisection was re-investigated in rats using quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of the neural specific growth-associated protein B-50 (GAP-43) at postoperative survival times of 3, 10, 21, 42, and 90 days. The lack of increase in B-50-immunoreactivity in all segments below the hemisection at all survival times does not support the concept of intraspinal sprouting following the removal of supraspinal descending pathways.
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