REMODELLING OF NERVE STRUCTURE IN EXPERIMENTAL ISONIAZID NEUROPATHY IN THE RAT
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Brain
- Vol. 109 (4) , 759-769
- https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/109.4.759
Abstract
SUMMARY The neuropathy caused by a single dose of isoniazid in rats was studied with a computer-assisted morphometric method. Scatter diagrams of the g ratio (quotient fibre diameter/axon diameter) define regenerating fibres as a distinct population, distinguishable from the surviving fibres by reduced sheath thickness and reduced axon calibre. There was also evidence of a subtle direct toxic effect on the entire fibre population, causing axon shrinkage masked by readjustment of the myelin sheath.Keywords
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