Neuro-vascular-desmal relationship disturbances in peripheral nerves, dorsal root ganglions and motor segmental centers in the etoposide-induced neuropathy.

The purpose of work was to determine the mechanisms of pathologic morphogenesis of the toxic neuropathy caused by etoposide taking into consideration all complex the neuro-vascular-desmal relationship disturbances in peripheral nerves, their motor and sensor segmental centers. It has been shown in the experiments on 86 white rats that single intravenous injection of etoposide at dose of 22 mg/kg body weight induse peripheral neuropathy. The complex of morphologic methods included the neurohistological and electronic microscopic methods of the research, the histochemical markers for study transmissivity of the vessels of the circulatory bed on the light microscopic and ultrastructural levels was used. The recommendations of the Interagency Committee of Neurotoxicology were considered to choose the methods of the research. The presence of 3 stages of morphogenesis has been established - phase of primary axonal reaction (3d day of experiment), phase of disturbance of the microcirculation of peripheral nerves and their segmental centers (7th day of experiment), phase of degenerative changes (15th day). Etoposide-indused neuropathy features are determined by a singularity of interdependent reactive changes, alteration and compensation processes in sensory and motor neurons, glial cells, microcirculatory bed and connective tissue.