Journal: eLife
Article Title: Endothelin B receptor inhibition rescues aging-dependent neuronal regenerative decline
doi: 10.7554/eLife.100217
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Scheme of drug treatment and peripheral nerve injury model. ( B ) Quantification of the length of the 10 longest axons in indicated conditions. ( C ) Quantification of the regeneration index, calculated as the distance along the nerve where the SGC10 intensity is 50% of the SCG10 intensity at crush site. ( D ) Representative longitudinal sections of sciatic nerves 24 h after SNC, immunostained for SCG10, from mice with the indicated treatment. Dotted line indicates the crush site, determined as the maximal SGC10 intensity (scale bars, 200 μm). ( E ) Quantification of SCG10 intensity at the indicated distance normalized to the intensity at the crush site for each condition. N=5 mice/condition. ( F ) Scheme of long-term Bosentan treatment. ( G ) Representative images of hindpaw skin after long-term Bosentan treatment immunostained for PGP9.5 (white) and DAPI (blue) (scale bars, 50 μm). ( H ) Quantification of intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) 24 days after sciatic nerve crush from the indicated groups. N=5 mice/condition. ( I ) Scheme of adult DRG neuronal culture and treatments. ( J, L ) Representative images showing TUJ1 (black) immunostaining of neurons in DRG cultures (scale bars, 100 μm). ( K, M ) Quantification of axonal radial length ( K ) and total TUJ1 + area ( L ). Different colors represent different biological replicates. N (neuron number)=177 (vehicle; three biological replicates, naïve mice), 168 (Ambrisentan, three biological replicates, naïve mice), 183 (Bosentan; three biological replicates, naïve mice), 186 (vehicle; three biological replicates, injured mice), 204 (Ambrisentan, three biological replicates, injured mice), and 210 (Bosentan; three biological replicates, injured mice), respectively. The data are presented as mean ± SD.
Article Snippet: Antibody , Rabbit anti-STMN2 (SCG10) (polyclonal) , Novus/Techne , NBP1-49461 RRID: AB_10011569 , IHC (1:1000).
Techniques: Immunostaining