• Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Fengxian District Central Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital South Campus, Shanghai 201499, China;
WUTao, Email: hijump46@sohu.com
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Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the repair effect of spontaneous reinnervation in rats underwent recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) transection. Methods Thirty male Wistar rats (340-360 g) were divided into experiment group (n=15) and blank control group (n=15), and then 15 rats of these 2 groups were divided into 3 time point groups equally:4 weeks group, 8 weeks group, and 12 weeks group. Fifteen rats of experiment group underwent right RLN transection with excision of a 5 mm segment, and other 15 rats of blank control group exposed RLN only, without transection. Grade of vocalization, maximum angle of arytenoid cartilage, axon number of distal part of RLN, and expression of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in right thyroarytenoid muscle were evaluated at different time points, including 4, 8, and 12 weeks after operation. Results Grade of vocalization, maximum angle of arytenoid cartilage, axon numbers of distal part of RLN, and the expression of BDNF in the right thyroarytenoid muscle of experiment group were all lower than those corresponding index of blank control group (P < 0.05), and these indexes of experiment group were restored gradually with time, but failed to reach normal level during the observed time. Conclusions Even though spontaneous reinnervation is presented after RLN injury, but the effect is unsatisfactory.

Citation: QUJun, SHENYe, WANGWen-jie, HUANGZhong-ming, WANGShi-guang, WUTao. Experimental Research of Laryngeal Muscle and Pathophysiology of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve after Unilateral Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Transection for Rats. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2016, 23(12): 1437-1442. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.20160366 Copy

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