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Filova I, Bohuslavova R, Tavakoli M, Yamoah EN, Fritzsch B, Pavlinkova G. Early Deletion of Neurod1 Alters Neuronal Lineage Potential and Diminishes Neurogenesis in the Inner Ear. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:845461. [PMID: 35252209 PMCID: PMC8894106 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.845461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Neuronal development in the inner ear is initiated by expression of the proneural basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) transcription factor Neurogenin1 that specifies neuronal precursors in the otocyst. The initial specification of the neuroblasts within the otic epithelium is followed by the expression of an additional bHLH factor, Neurod1. Although NEUROD1 is essential for inner ear neuronal development, the different aspects of the temporal and spatial requirements of NEUROD1 for the inner ear and, mainly, for auditory neuron development are not fully understood. In this study, using Foxg1Cre for the early elimination of Neurod1 in the mouse otocyst, we showed that Neurod1 deletion results in a massive reduction of differentiating neurons in the otic ganglion at E10.5, and in the diminished vestibular and rudimental spiral ganglia at E13.5. Attenuated neuronal development was associated with reduced and disorganized sensory epithelia, formation of ectopic hair cells, and the shortened cochlea in the inner ear. Central projections of inner ear neurons with conditional Neurod1 deletion are reduced, unsegregated, disorganized, and interconnecting the vestibular and auditory systems. In line with decreased afferent input from auditory neurons, the volume of cochlear nuclei was reduced by 60% in Neurod1 mutant mice. Finally, our data demonstrate that early elimination of Neurod1 affects the neuronal lineage potential and alters the generation of inner ear neurons and cochlear afferents with a profound effect on the first auditory nuclei, the cochlear nuclei.
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Affiliation(s)
- Iva Filova
- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Institute of Biotechnology CAS, Vestec, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Institute of Biotechnology CAS, Vestec, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Institute of Biotechnology CAS, Vestec, Czechia
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Institute for Neuroscience, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Institute of Biotechnology CAS, Vestec, Czechia
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Schwarzmaiera SM, Knarr MR, Hu S, Ertürk A, Hellal F, Plesnila N. Perfusion pressure determines vascular integrity and histomorphological quality following perfusion fixation of the brain. J Neurosci Methods 2022; 372:109493. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Peineau T, Belleudy S, Pietropaolo S, Bouleau Y, Dulon D. Synaptic Release Potentiation at Aging Auditory Ribbon Synapses. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 13:756449. [PMID: 34733152 PMCID: PMC8558230 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.756449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Age-related hidden hearing loss is often described as a cochlear synaptopathy that results from a progressive degeneration of the inner hair cell (IHC) ribbon synapses. The functional changes occurring at these synapses during aging are not fully understood. Here, we characterized this aging process in IHCs of C57BL/6J mice, a strain which is known to carry a cadherin-23 mutation and experiences early hearing loss with age. These mice, while displaying a large increase in auditory brainstem thresholds due to 50% loss of IHC synaptic ribbons at middle age (postnatal day 365), paradoxically showed enhanced acoustic startle reflex suggesting a hyperacusis-like response. The auditory defect was associated with a large shrinkage of the IHCs' cell body and a drastic enlargement of their remaining presynaptic ribbons which were facing enlarged postsynaptic AMPAR clusters. Presynaptic Ca2+ microdomains and the capacity of IHCs to sustain high rates of exocytosis were largely increased, while on the contrary the expression of the fast-repolarizing BK channels, known to negatively control transmitter release, was decreased. This age-related synaptic plasticity in IHCs suggested a functional potentiation of synaptic transmission at the surviving synapses, a process that could partially compensate the decrease in synapse number and underlie hyperacusis.
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- Thibault Peineau
- Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, INSERM UMRS 1120, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.,Institut de l'Audition, Centre Institut Pasteur/Inserm, Paris, France
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- Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, INSERM UMRS 1120, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, INSERM UMRS 1120, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.,Institut de l'Audition, Centre Institut Pasteur/Inserm, Paris, France
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- Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, INSERM UMRS 1120, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.,Institut de l'Audition, Centre Institut Pasteur/Inserm, Paris, France
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Jahan I, Kersigo J, Elliott KL, Fritzsch B. Smoothened overexpression causes trochlear motoneurons to reroute and innervate ipsilateral eyes. Cell Tissue Res 2021; 384:59-72. [PMID: 33409653 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-020-03352-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The trochlear projection is unique among the cranial nerves in that it exits the midbrain dorsally to innervate the contralateral superior oblique muscle in all vertebrates. Trochlear as well as oculomotor motoneurons uniquely depend upon Phox2a and Wnt1, both of which are downstream of Lmx1b, though why trochlear motoneurons display such unusual projections is not fully known. We used Pax2-cre to drive expression of ectopically activated Smoothened (SmoM2) dorsally in the midbrain and anterior hindbrain. We documented the expansion of oculomotor and trochlear motoneurons using Phox2a as a specific marker at E9.5. We show that the initial expansion follows a demise of these neurons by E14.5. Furthermore, SmoM2 expression leads to a ventral exit and ipsilateral projection of trochlear motoneurons. We compare that data with Unc5c mutants that shows a variable ipsilateral number of trochlear fibers that exit dorsal. Our data suggest that Shh signaling is involved in trochlear motoneuron projections and that the deflected trochlear projections after SmoM2 expression is likely due to the dorsal expression of Gli1, which impedes the normal dorsal trajectory of these neurons.
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- Israt Jahan
- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. .,Department of Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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Filova I, Dvorakova M, Bohuslavova R, Pavlinek A, Elliott KL, Vochyanova S, Fritzsch B, Pavlinkova G. Combined Atoh1 and Neurod1 Deletion Reveals Autonomous Growth of Auditory Nerve Fibers. Mol Neurobiol 2020; 57:5307-5323. [PMID: 32880858 PMCID: PMC7547283 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-020-02092-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Ear development requires the transcription factors ATOH1 for hair cell differentiation and NEUROD1 for sensory neuron development. In addition, NEUROD1 negatively regulates Atoh1 gene expression. As we previously showed that deletion of the Neurod1 gene in the cochlea results in axon guidance defects and excessive peripheral innervation of the sensory epithelium, we hypothesized that some of the innervation defects may be a result of abnormalities in NEUROD1 and ATOH1 interactions. To characterize the interdependency of ATOH1 and NEUROD1 in inner ear development, we generated a new Atoh1/Neurod1 double null conditional deletion mutant. Through careful comparison of the effects of single Atoh1 or Neurod1 gene deletion with combined double Atoh1 and Neurod1 deletion, we demonstrate that NEUROD1-ATOH1 interactions are not important for the Neurod1 null innervation phenotype. We report that neurons lacking Neurod1 can innervate the flat epithelium without any sensory hair cells or supporting cells left after Atoh1 deletion, indicating that neurons with Neurod1 deletion do not require the presence of hair cells for axon growth. Moreover, transcriptome analysis identified genes encoding axon guidance and neurite growth molecules that are dysregulated in the Neurod1 deletion mutant. Taken together, we demonstrate that much of the projections of NEUROD1-deprived inner ear sensory neurons are regulated cell-autonomously.
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- Iva Filova
- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1324, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1324, USA.
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 25250, Vestec, Czechia.
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Schmidt H, Fritzsch B. Npr2 null mutants show initial overshooting followed by reduction of spiral ganglion axon projections combined with near-normal cochleotopic projection. Cell Tissue Res 2019; 378:15-32. [PMID: 31201541 PMCID: PMC7243364 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-019-03050-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Npr2 (natriuretic peptide receptor 2) affects bifurcation of neural crest or placode-derived afferents upon entering the brain stem/spinal cord, leading to a lack of either rostral or caudal branches. Previous work has shown that early embryonic growth of cochlear and vestibular afferents is equally affected in this mutant but later work on postnatal Npr2 point mutations suggested some additional effects on the topology of afferent projections and mild functional defects. Using multicolor lipophilic dye tracing, we show that absence of Npr2 has little to no effect on the initial patterning of inner ear afferents with respect to their dorsoventral cochleotopic-specific projections. However, in contrast to control animals, we found a variable degree of embryonic extension of auditory afferents beyond the boundaries of the anterior cochlear nucleus into the cerebellum that emanates only from apical spiral ganglion neurons. Such expansion has previously only been reported for Hox gene mutants and implies an unclear interaction of Hox codes with Npr2-mediated afferent projection patterning to define boundaries. Some vestibular ganglion neurons expand their projections to reach the cochlear apex and the cochlear nuclei, comparable to previous findings in Neurod1 mutant mice. Before birth, such expansions are reduced or lost leading to truncated projections to the anteroventral cochlear nucleus and expansion of low-frequency fibers of the apex to the posteroventral cochlear nucleus.
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- Hannes Schmidt
- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Biology & Department of Otolaryngology, CLAS, University of Iowa, 128 Jefferson Avenue, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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Long-term Administration of Salicylate-induced Changes in BDNF Expression and CREB Phosphorylation in the Auditory Cortex of Rats. Otol Neurotol 2019; 39:e173-e180. [PMID: 29342042 PMCID: PMC5821486 DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000001717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We investigated whether salicylate induces tinnitus through alteration of the expression levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), proBDNF, tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB), cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB), and phosphorylated CREB (p-CREB) in the auditory cortex (AC).
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Neurod1 Is Essential for the Primary Tonotopic Organization and Related Auditory Information Processing in the Midbrain. J Neurosci 2018; 39:984-1004. [PMID: 30541910 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2557-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Revised: 11/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Hearing depends on extracting frequency, intensity, and temporal properties from sound to generate an auditory map for acoustical signal processing. How physiology intersects with molecular specification to fine tune the developing properties of the auditory system that enable these aspects remains unclear. We made a novel conditional deletion model that eliminates the transcription factor NEUROD1 exclusively in the ear. These mice (both sexes) develop a truncated frequency range with no neuroanatomically recognizable mapping of spiral ganglion neurons onto distinct locations in the cochlea nor a cochleotopic map presenting topographically discrete projections to the cochlear nuclei. The disorganized primary cochleotopic map alters tuning properties of the inferior colliculus units, which display abnormal frequency, intensity, and temporal sound coding. At the behavioral level, animals show alterations in the acoustic startle response, consistent with altered neuroanatomical and physiological properties. We demonstrate that absence of the primary afferent topology during embryonic development leads to dysfunctional tonotopy of the auditory system. Such effects have never been investigated in other sensory systems because of the lack of comparable single gene mutation models.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT All sensory systems form a topographical map of neuronal projections from peripheral sensory organs to the brain. Neuronal projections in the auditory pathway are cochleotopically organized, providing a tonotopic map of sound frequencies. Primary sensory maps typically arise by molecular cues, requiring physiological refinements. Past work has demonstrated physiologic plasticity in many senses without ever molecularly undoing the specific mapping of an entire primary sensory projection. We genetically manipulated primary auditory neurons to generate a scrambled cochleotopic projection. Eliminating tonotopic representation to auditory nuclei demonstrates the inability of physiological processes to restore a tonotopic presentation of sound in the midbrain. Our data provide the first insights into the limits of physiology-mediated brainstem plasticity during the development of the auditory system.
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Elliott KL, Fritzsch B. Ear transplantations reveal conservation of inner ear afferent pathfinding cues. Sci Rep 2018; 8:13819. [PMID: 30218045 PMCID: PMC6138675 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31952-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Vertebrate inner ear neurons project into the correct brainstem nuclei region before target neurons become postmitotic, or even in their absence. Moreover, afferents from transplanted ears in frogs have been shown to navigate to vestibular nuclei, suggesting that ear afferents use molecular cues to find their target. We performed heterochronic, xenoplastic, and heterotopic transplantations in chickens to investigate whether inner ear afferents are guided by conserved guidance molecules. We show that inner ear afferents can navigate to the vestibular nuclei following a delay in afferent entry and when the ear was from a different species, the mouse. These data suggest that guidance molecules are expressed for some time and are conserved across amniotes. In addition, we show that chicken ears transplanted adjacent to the spinal cord project dorsally like in the hindbrain. These results suggest that inner ear afferents navigate to the correct dorsoventral brainstem column using conserved cues.
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- Karen L Elliott
- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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A RNAscope whole mount approach that can be combined with immunofluorescence to quantify differential distribution of mRNA. Cell Tissue Res 2018; 374:251-262. [PMID: 29974252 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-018-2864-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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RNAscope® technology provided by Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD) allows the detection and evaluation of coinciding mRNA expression profiles in the same or adjacent cells in unprecedented quantitative detail using multicolor fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). While already extensively used in thinly sectioned material of various pathological tissues and, to a lesser extent, in some whole mounts, we provide here a detailed approach to use the fluorescent RNAscope method in the mouse inner ear and thick brain sections by modifying and adapting existing techniques of whole mount fluorescent in situ hybridization (WH-FISH). We show that RNAscope WH-FISH can be used to quantify local variation in overlaying mRNA expression intensity, such as neurotrophin receptors along the length of the mouse cochlea. We also show how RNAscope WH-FISH can be combined with immunofluorescence (IF) of some epitopes that remain after proteinase digestion and, to some extent, with fluorescent protein markers such as tdTomato. Our WH-FISH technique provides an approach to detect cell-specific quantitative differences in developing and mature adjacent cells, an emerging issue revealed by improved cellular expression profiling. Further, the presented technique may be useful in validating single-cell RNAseq data on expression profiles in a range of tissue known or suspected to have locally variable mRNA expression levels.
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Prickle1 regulates neurite outgrowth of apical spiral ganglion neurons but not hair cell polarity in the murine cochlea. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0183773. [PMID: 28837644 PMCID: PMC5570324 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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In the mammalian organ of Corti (OC), the stereocilia on the apical surface of hair cells (HCs) are uniformly organized in a neural to abneural axis (or medial-laterally). This organization is regulated by planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling. Mutations of PCP genes, such as Vangl2, Dvl1/2, Celsr1, and Fzd3/6, affect the formation of HC orientation to varying degrees. Prickle1 is a PCP signaling gene that belongs to the prickle / espinas / testin family. Prickle1 protein is shown to be asymmetrically localized in the HCs of the OC, and this asymmetric localization is associated with loss of PCP in Smurf mutants, implying that Prickle1 is involved in HC PCP development in the OC. A follow-up study found no PCP polarity defects after loss of Prickle1 (Prickle1-/-) in the cochlea. We show here strong Prickle1 mRNA expression in the spiral ganglion by in situ hybridization and β-Gal staining, and weak expression in the OC by β-Gal staining. Consistent with this limited expression in the OC, cochlear HC PCP is unaffected in either Prickle1C251X/C251X mice or Prickle1f/f; Pax2-cre conditional null mice. Meanwhile, type II afferents of apical spiral ganglion neurons (SGN) innervating outer hair cells (OHC) have unusual neurite growth. In addition, afferents from the apex show unusual collaterals in the cochlear nuclei that overlap with basal turn afferents. Our findings argue against the role of Prickle1 in regulating hair cell polarity in the cochlea. Instead, Prickle1 regulates the polarity-related growth of distal and central processes of apical SGNs.
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Elliott KL, Kersigo J, Pan N, Jahan I, Fritzsch B. Spiral Ganglion Neuron Projection Development to the Hindbrain in Mice Lacking Peripheral and/or Central Target Differentiation. Front Neural Circuits 2017; 11:25. [PMID: 28450830 PMCID: PMC5389974 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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We investigate the importance of the degree of peripheral or central target differentiation for mouse auditory afferent navigation to the organ of Corti and auditory nuclei in three different mouse models: first, a mouse in which the differentiation of hair cells, but not central auditory nuclei neurons is compromised (Atoh1-cre; Atoh1f/f ); second, a mouse in which hair cell defects are combined with a delayed defect in central auditory nuclei neurons (Pax2-cre; Atoh1f/f ), and third, a mouse in which both hair cells and central auditory nuclei are absent (Atoh1-/-). Our results show that neither differentiated peripheral nor the central target cells of inner ear afferents are needed (hair cells, cochlear nucleus neurons) for segregation of vestibular and cochlear afferents within the hindbrain and some degree of base to apex segregation of cochlear afferents. These data suggest that inner ear spiral ganglion neuron processes may predominantly rely on temporally and spatially distinct molecular cues in the region of the targets rather than interaction with differentiated target cells for a crude topological organization. These developmental data imply that auditory neuron navigation properties may have evolved before auditory nuclei.
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- Department of Biology, University of IowaIowa City, IA, USA
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