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Lithium chloride regulation of the substance P encoding preprotachykinin a, Tac1 gene in rat hippocampal primary cells. J Mol Neurosci 2010; 45:94-100. [PMID: 20690045 DOI: 10.1007/s12031-010-9431-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In rat hippocampal cultures, the preprotachykinin A (PPTA/Tac1) gene, which encodes the neuropeptide substance P, is regulated by the action of lithium. We used reporter gene and expression constructs to demonstrate that this mechanism of action of lithium is mediated via a previously characterised cis-regulatory Ebox element in the proximal promoter, which binds members of the basic Helix-Loop-Helix family of transcription factors. Consistent with this, in hippocampal cells, both the expression of the endogenous gene and the function of this promoter element are differentially regulated by the basic Helix-Loop-Helix factors, upstream stimulatory factor 1 and 2 (USF1/2). In addition, the genes for USF1 and USF2 are differentially regulated by lithium in these cells. Our data implicate USF1 as a major regulator of the action of lithium on the proximal PPTA promoter.
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Xu L, Zhao Y, Zhan SQ, Tang XD, Guo Y, Wang HS, Yang C. Temporal and spatial expression of preprotachykinin A mRNA in the developing filial mice brain after maternal administration of monosodium glutamate at a late stage of pregnancy. Neuroscience 2007; 145:974-80. [PMID: 17307297 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2006] [Revised: 12/06/2006] [Accepted: 12/12/2006] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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In the early stages of brain development, exposure of excessive monosodium glutamate (MSG) to neurons causes animal functional and behavioral disorders in adulthood. To investigate the effects of excessive MSG during pregnancy on the neurons in the developing brain, in situ hybridization was used. In mice, the expression of preprotachykinin A mRNA (PPT A mRNA) was assessed in neurons of in the brain after MSG treatment. Brain tissue sections were hybridized with specific digoxigenin-labeled RNA probes. The number of cells that expressed PPT A mRNA gradually decreased from 10-day-old (10d) to 60-day-old (60d) MSG-treated and normal animals. In the MSG-treated and normal mice, the PPT A mRNA-positive neurons almost disappeared in 90-day-old (90d) mice. The expression of PPT A mRNA significantly decreased at 10d in most of the brain regions of MSG-treated mice including the cerebral cortex (CC), hippocampal subregions of CA1, CA2 (CA1, CA2), habenula nucleus (HAB), hypothalamic periventricular nucleus (PE), hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (AR), median eminence (ME), amygdala nucleus (AMY), endopiriform nucleus (EN), and hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMH) and dorsomedial nucleus (DMH). In the hippocampal CA4 subregions (CA4), paraventricular nucleus (PV) and caudate putamen (CPU), however, they were not significantly altered. Furthermore, in CC, hippocampal CA3 subregion (CA3), PE and EN regions the number of PPT A mRNA-positive neurons decreased at 20 days old (20d), but increased significantly in CA2 and CPU. At 30 days old (30d), the positive neuron number decreased in AMY, and they did not change in other regions. At 60d, the number of positive neurons significantly decreased in PV and ME, but increased in AMY. In the other observed regions, no changes were found. These results show that maternal administration of excessive MSG at a late stage of pregnancy significantly decreases PPT A mRNA expression in most of the brain regions of filial mice. This suggests that glutamate-induced excitotoxicity may affect the metabolism of precursors of substance P in developing brain neurons. The present study provides insights into the plasticity and vulnerability of neuron in different brain regions to glutamate excitotoxicity.
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- L Xu
- Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Fisher RS, Boylan MK, Xie Y. Tachykinin expression and localization in developing feline neocortex. Dev Neurosci 2003; 25:127-38. [PMID: 12966211 DOI: 10.1159/000072262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2003] [Accepted: 03/31/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Developmental patterns of expression and localization of tachykinins in feline neocortex were determined by qualitative immunohistochemical means. Three observations were obtained. (1) By midgestation, tachykinins were progressively accumulated in an infrequent (<1%) population of interneurons (sparse dendritic spines) settled mainly in superficial and deep sites. (2) Tachykinins were in a sparse axonal innervation showing horizontal elaboration in layers I and VI and vertical elaboration within the intervening layers (II-V) of true cortical plate. (3) Tachykinin innervation of the capillary beds arose in conjunction with tachykinin interneurons instead of extending from basal cerebral or meningeal vasculature. These patterns indicate that tachykinin local circuit neurons of feline neocortex are derived, at least in part, from early-generated neocortical preplate neurons that initiate tachykinin expression after they settle into the marginal zone of primitive neocortex. In addition to their roles in peptidergic modulation of synaptic connectivity in neocortex, this innervation may participate in trophic developmental interactions leading to the establishment of neocortical vasculature.
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- R S Fisher
- Developmental and Molecular Neuroscience Group, Mental Retardation Research Center, School of Medicine, The University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif 90024, USA.
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MacKenzie A, Quinn J. A yeast artificial chromosome containing the human preprotachykinin-A gene expresses substance P in mice and drives appropriate marker-gene expression during early brain embryogenesis. Mol Cell Neurosci 2002; 19:72-87. [PMID: 11817899 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2001.1052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We have produced a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) transgenic model containing the human preprotachykinin-A gene (hPPTA) that can drive appropriate expression of beta-galactosidase within the adult mouse brain. Here, we investigate its embryonic expression to assess the transcriptional regulation of the PPTA gene during the development of several neural pathways later affected by disease in humans. We demonstrate that the human PPTA gene regulatory region is active in appropriate areas of the developing brain at significantly earlier time points than has been previously reported. Furthermore, despite replacement of most of the 3' untranslated region by the marker gene cassette, the modified human YAC is able to express substance P (SP) on a murine SP/NKA(-/-) background. This transgenic model, in addition to being valuable in examining the hPPTA regulatory region, will also prove to be important in exploring the downstream function of the gene in the adult and the embryo brain.
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- Alasdair MacKenzie
- Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland
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MacKenzie A, Payne C, Boyle S, Clarke AR, Quinn JP. The human preprotachykinin-A gene promoter has been highly conserved and can drive human-like marker gene expression in the adult mouse CNS. Mol Cell Neurosci 2000; 16:620-30. [PMID: 11083923 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2000.0902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Toward an understanding of the mechanisms controlling Preprotachykinin-A (PPTA) transcription, we introduced a 380-kb human yeast artificial chromosome containing the PPTA gene tagged with the beta-galactosidase gene into transgenic mice. This resulted in a pattern of LacZ expression in the central nervous system (CNS) remarkably similar to that reported for PPTA mRNA in the rat. However, the human gene drove expression in areas of the mouse CNS not associated with strong PPTA expression in rodents but which have been shown to express PPTA in the human. This study clearly demonstrates the high degree of conservation of the mechanisms involved in PPTA transcription that has occurred throughout 100 million of divergent human and rodent evolution. This study also defines the maximum linear extent of the human PPT-A promoter. We believe these findings constitute the removal of a significant obstacle in studying the transcriptional regulation of the human PPTA gene in vivo.
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- A MacKenzie
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Summerhall Square, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH91QH, Scotland
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Quinn JP, Fiskerstrand CE, Gerrard L, MacKenzie A, Payne CM. Molecular models to analyse preprotachykinin-A expression and function. Neuropeptides 2000; 34:292-302. [PMID: 11049733 DOI: 10.1054/npep.2000.0833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Towards an understanding of the mechanisms controlling Preprotachykinin A (PPT) expression we have generated a variety of molecular models to determine the mechanisms regulating both the tissue-specific and stimulus-inducible expression of the PPT gene. The approaches used include transgenic and virus vector models complementing biochemical analysis of promoter interactions with transcription factors. We have identified and characterised a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) containing the human PPT gene and generated transgenic mouse lines containing multiple copies of this chromosome on a normal mouse genetic background. This resulted in a pattern of expression in the nervous system remarkably similar to that reported for PPT mRNA in rodents. In addition, this transgenic model has been constructed in such a manner to allow for over expression of tachykinins based on the number of extra alleles in the transgenic mouse. These animals allow us to further examine the function of the tachykinins and acts as a useful complement to existing PPT ablated mice. In vitro we have introduced the proximal PPT promoter in reporter gene constructs into adult neurones in both DRG and the CNS by an adenoassociated virus (AAV) vector or by biolistic transfection respectively. Using the AAV vector we have demonstrated that the proximal promoter can mediate the effects of NGF in adult rat DRG. These models allow us to delineate transcriptional domains involved in the physiological and pathological expression of the PPT gene.
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- J P Quinn
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, UK.
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Humpel C, Johansson M, Marksteiner J, Saria A, Strömberg I. Mesencephalic grafts increase preprotachykinin-A mRNA expression in striatal grafts in an in oculo co-graft model. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1995; 56:9-17. [PMID: 7770637 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(95)00122-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In oculo transplantation provides a powerful tool to study development and gene expression of isolated brain regions. In this study we grafted striatal and mesencephalic brain tissue to the anterior eye chamber and allowed it to survive for 2 and 6 weeks. Striatal or mesencephalic pieces were either grafted alone (single grafts) or together in close connection (co-grafts). As a control normal adult untreated rats were analyzed at the striatal and hippocampal level. Using non-radioactive in situ hybridization with digoxigenin-labeled riboprobes we detected preprotachykinin-A mRNA, a neuropeptide marker for striatal neurons. We report that adult normal rats show a strong expression of preprotachykinin-A mRNA in the striatum, medial habenula and piriform cortex, verifying the specificity of the method. Mesencephalic in oculo grafts did not reveal any staining for preprotachykinin-A mRNA. In single striatal grafts only a very weak expression of preprotachykinin-A mRNA was found at both time points investigated. Co-grafts grown for 2 weeks were not different from single striatal grafts, however, when striatum was grown together with ventral mesencephalon for 6 weeks the level of preprotachykinin-A mRNA was strong and near normal adult levels. We conclude that the mesencephalic dopaminergic innervation to the striatum might be a potent stimulus to neurons expressing preprotachykinin-A mRNA.
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- C Humpel
- Neurochemistry Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck, Austria
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Mahata M, Mahata SK, Fischer-Colbrie R, Winkler H. Ontogenic development and distribution of mRNAs of chromogranin A and B, secretogranin II, p65 and synaptin/synaptophysin in rat brain. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1993; 76:43-58. [PMID: 8306430 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(93)90121-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We have studied by in situ hybridization the mRNA levels of several constituents of transmitter storing vesicles during ontogenic development of rat brain. The following vesicle components were investigated: chromogranin A and B and secretogranin II, representing secretory peptides of large dense core vesicles, and the membrane proteins p65 and synaptin/synaptophysin which are found in both large and small synaptic vesicles but are concentrated in the latter ones. Several ontogenic patterns were observed: concomitant increases of most or all mRNAs in certain brain regions, e.g. in the thalamic nuclei at gestational day 18 or in the cortex at postnatal day 6. For some areas selective increases for the various chromogranin mRNAs occurred, thus throughout development the substantia nigra compacta contained only the chromogranin B mRNA, whereas the lateral and medial geniculate nuclei and the medial tuberal nucleus expressed only secretogranin II mRNA. In the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus, secretogranin II mRNA declined at P1 and then increased again. In the intermediate cortex there was a rather selective appearance of a high level of chromogranin A mRNA already at gestational day 16. In general the mRNAs for the membrane components become detectable by in situ hybridization together with the chromogranin mRNA, however, in the claustrum a high level of the p65 mRNA is present already at gestational day 16 whereas the chromogranin mRNA only appears at day 20. In some nuclei there was also a differential expression of the membrane components with e.g. the synaptophysin mRNA being present without any concomitant appearance of p65. These results establish that the ontogenic development of the investigated components in many brain areas simply indicate the starting point of biosynthesis of both types of vesicles finally leading to functional synapses. In those cases where a selective dissociation in the biosynthesis of these components occurs, a functional relevance of one component for a certain stage of development might be postulated. Since these data define the time of onset of vesicle biosynthesis in the various brain regions, future studies on single components of these vesicles can be interpreted in the context of the present findings.
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- M Mahata
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Hogan D, Berman NE. Transient expression of calbindin-D28k immunoreactivity in layer V pyramidal neurons during postnatal development of kitten cortical areas. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1993; 74:177-92. [PMID: 8403381 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(93)90003-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Calbindin-D28k is a 28 kDa calcium binding protein that has been shown to colocalize with a specific subpopulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibitory interneurons in mammalian neocortex. We have examined the ontogeny of calbindin in neonatal kitten cortex in areas 17,18,19,7, medial and lateral suprasylvian visual areas, splenial visual area and cingulate cortex from the day of birth (P0) through maturation of the brain (P101). Transient staining of immature layer V pyramidal cells was seen in kittens six weeks old and younger. This transient staining of pyramidal cells was most intense and the stained neurons were most numerous in cingulate cortex. Apical dendrites of pyramidal cells in cingulate cortex were prominently stained and could be followed to layer I, where they were seen to branch extensively. There were very few calbindin immunoreactive pyramidal cells in primary cortical areas postnatally. Transient staining in extrastriate visual cortical areas disappeared first from the lateral suprasylvian areas, and persisted longest in area 7. Pyramidal neurons in the cingulate gyrus expressed calbindin longest, but calbindin expression by pyramidal neurons ceased by the sixth postnatal week in all areas of the brain.
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- D Hogan
- University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kansas City 66160-7400
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Brené S, Lindefors N, Herrera-Marschitz M, Persson H. Differential regulation of preprotachykinin-A mRNA expression in striatum by excitation of hippocampal neurons. Eur J Neurosci 1993; 5:839-45. [PMID: 8281296 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1993.tb00936.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In this report we have studied the influence of hippocampal neurons on neuropeptide mRNA expression in both dorsal and ventral striatum in the rat. Intrahippocampal unilateral kainic acid injections were performed in control animals and in animals with a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopamine deafferentation of the striatum. In situ hybridization combined with quantitative image analysis was used to study the expression of preprotachykinin A mRNA encoding the neuropeptides substance P and neurokinin A. The 6-hydroxydopamine-induced lesion caused a decrease of preprotachykinin A mRNA levels in the ipsilateral dorsal striatum and in both sides of the ventral striatum. In normal rats, the intrahippocampal kainic acid injection caused a twofold increase in preprotachykinin A mRNA in the limbic parts of the striatum, which are innervated by the hippocampus. No effect of the kainic acid injection was seen in the lateral parts of the dorsal striatum, a region which does not appear to be innervated by the hippocampus. Animals with a 6-hydroxydopamine lesion showed a similar kainic acid-mediated increase in preprotachykinin A mRNA in parts of the ventral striatum. In the dopamine-lesioned dorsal striatum and ventral striatum the decreased preprotachykinin A mRNA levels were normalized by the intrahippocampal kainic acid injection. These results show that kainic acid-mediated excitation of hippocampal neurons causes a dopamine-independent induction of preprotachykinin A mRNA expression in parts of the ventral striatum, and reverses the dopamine deafferentation-induced decrease of preprotachykinin A mRNA in both dorsal and ventral striatum. Combined, our results suggest that hippocampal neurons can regulate preprotachykinin A mRNA expression in both the ventral and the dorsal striatum.
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- S Brené
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Wahle P. Differential regulation of substance P and somatostatin in Martinotti cells of the developing cat visual cortex. J Comp Neurol 1993; 329:519-38. [PMID: 7681071 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903290408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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In order to determine their morphological development and ontogenetic fate, Martinotti neurons immunoreactive for substance P and somatostatin have been analysed in the cat visual cortex. Martinotti neurons are located in layers V and VI. They are multipolar to bitufted, and most dendrites remain in layers V and VI. Their typical features is the ascending axon, which emerges from an apical dendrite or from the upper pole of the soma. A number of collaterals branch off in layer V, forming a local terminal plexus. The axon then branches into 2-8 collaterals, which ascend as a bundle to layers III and II, where a second terminal plexus is formed. Some collaterals ascend to layer I where they adopt a horizontal course. Horizontal collaterals in the terminal layers V, III, II, and in layer I may reach up to 400 microns in length. Martinotti neurons begin to differentiate perinatally. The quantitative analysis reveals that the initial time course of differentiation of Martinotti cells is very similar in material stained for substance P and for somatostatin. Double immunofluorescence then confirms that the two peptides are colocalized in Martinotti cells of layers V and VI during the early postnatal period. Further, substance P is colocalized with GABA. Substance P expression in Martinotti cells can be observed only in the immature visual cortex. After postnatal day 15, the Martinotti neuron system becomes less and less detectable by substance P immunoreactivity. It declines to virtually undetectable levels after the third postnatal month. The adult visual cortex is almost devoid of substance P-immunoreactive cell bodies, processes and axon terminals. In situ hybridization confirms this finding, revealing beta-preprotachykinin mRNA-expressing cell bodies in layers V and IV at postnatal day (P)6 and P12, but not in the adult cortex. This suggests a downregulation of the substance P expression at the transcriptional level. In contrast, somatostatin-immunoreactive Martinotti cells, most of which have coexpressed substance P during early postnatal life, can still be observed in the adult cortex. Thus, the Martinotti neurons constitute a persisting cell type, although many individual neurons of this type disappear during the second postnatal month by degeneration and cell death. In summary, while somatostatin is permanently expressed in Martinotti neurons in the cat visual cortex, substance P peptide and mRNA are transiently expressed during an early postnatal period, and apparently are downregulated later in development.
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- P Wahle
- Abt. Neurobiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
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Brené S, Lindefors N, Ballarin M, Persson H. Kainic acid-mediated increase of preprotachykinin-A messenger RNA expression in the rat hippocampus and a region-selective attenuation by dexamethasone. Neuroscience 1992; 50:611-8. [PMID: 1436505 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(92)90450-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The hippocampus contains the highest number of glucocorticoid-sensitive neurons in the rat brain and excessive exposure to glucocorticoids can cause damage to hippocampal neurons and impair the capacity of the hippocampus to survive neuronal insults. In this study in situ hybridization combined with quantitative image analysis was used to study preprotachykinin-A mRNA levels after administration of a toxic dose of kainic acid in animals pretreated with glucocorticoids. Kainic acid was injected into dorsal hippocampus CA3 region in animals pretreated with the synthetic glucocorticoid receptor agonist dexamethasone and in control animals. Preprotachykinin-A mRNA was not detected in the hippocampus of untreated animals or in animals analysed 30 min after a kainic acid injection. However, 4 h after injection of kainic acid, the level of preprotachykinin-A mRNA increased to 20-times above the detection limit both in the dentate gyrus and the CA3 region of the hippocampus. Treatment of kainic acid-injected animals with dexamethasone 30 min before and 2 h after the injection attenuated the increase in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus by 50%. In contrast, dexamethasone pretreatment had no significant effect on the kainic acid-induced increase of preprotachykinin-A mRNA in pyramidal cells in regions CA3 or CA1. These results show that an excitatory stimulus within the hippocampus causes a substantial increase in the level of preprotachykinin-A mRNA in hippocampal granule and pyramidal cells and suggest that in granule cells of the dentate gyrus this increase can be modulated by glucocorticoids.
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- S Brené
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ferrer I, Soriano E, del Rio JA, Alcántara S, Auladell C. Cell death and removal in the cerebral cortex during development. Prog Neurobiol 1992; 39:1-43. [PMID: 1589584 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(92)90029-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- I Ferrer
- Depto. Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Príncipes de España
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Brené S, Lindefors N, Persson H. Midbrain dopamine neurons regulate preprotachykinin-A mRNA expression in the rat forebrain during development. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1992; 14:13-9. [PMID: 1323010 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(92)90004-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Intracerebroventricular 6-hydroxydopamine injections were performed at postnatal days 3 and 6 in animals pretreated with the norepinephrine uptakeblocker desimipramine in order to generate a selective lesion of dopamine neurons. In situ hybridization was then used to analyze preprotachykinin-A (PPT-A) mRNA expression in the lesioned as well as in saline-injected control animals. The midbrain dopaminergic lesion caused a 22-25% increase in the level of PPT-A mRNA in cingulate cortex and frontoparietal cortex when analysed at 2 weeks of age, compared to saline-injected control animals. In contrast, the lesion caused no change in PPT-A mRNA expression in the neonatal caudate-putamen. These results indicate that dopamine neurons downregulate the expression of PPT-A mRNA specifically in cingulate cortex and frontoparietal cortex during early postnatal brain development. In the adult rat forebrain, lesioned at P3 and P6, no change in the level of PPT-A mRNA was seen in cingulate cortex and frontoparietal cortex. However, a 29% decrease in PPT-A mRNA was seen in the lateral caudate-putamen with no significant change in neurons of medial caudate-putamen. Thus, dopamine neurons appears to exert a region specific influence on PPT-A mRNA expression during brain development.
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- S Brené
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Lindefors N. Amphetamine and haloperidol modulate preprotachykinin A mRNA expression in rat nucleus accumbens and caudate-putamen. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1992; 13:151-4. [PMID: 1315912 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(92)90055-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In situ hybridization was used to measure the effect of repeated amphetamine (1.5 mg/kg) and haloperidol (0.5 mg/kg) treatment for 7 days on the expression of preprotachykinin A (PPT-A) mRNA in rat nucleus accumbens (Acb) and caudate-putamen (CPu). Amphetamine elevated the level of PPT-A mRNA in Acb, but not in CPu. Haloperidol decreased the levels in Acb shell and CPu, but not in Acb core. Haloperidol injected together with amphetamine, prevented the amphetamine-induced increase in PPT-A mRNA expression in both Acb core and shell.
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- N Lindefors
- Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Del Rio JA, Soriano E, Ferrer I. A transitory population of substance P-like immunoreactive neurones in the developing cerebral cortex of the mouse. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1991; 64:205-11. [PMID: 1723935 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(91)90227-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Immunocytochemical methods were used to investigate the developmental expression of substance P (SP) in mouse cerebral cortex. SP-like-immunoreactive cells were first detected at postnatal day 0 (P0), their numbers being notably increased by P2. Immunopositive cells were especially abundant in layer VIb and in the subjacent future white matter, although they were also present in layer V. Between P5 and P8 the number of SP-like-immunoreactive cells gradually decreased, being almost completely absent by P12. At these stages cells were only observed in the deepest cortical layers. From P16 onwards, the adult pattern of SP-like immunoreactivity emerged with a few immunopositive cells scattered throughout the cortical layers. The present data show a transitory population of SP-like-immunoreactive cells present in the mouse cerebral cortex during the first postnatal week. On the basis of close correlations of SP-like expression with the distribution or transitory populations and the timing of cell death in rodents, we propose that most of the SP-like-immunoreactive cells reported here would probably disappear by cell death.
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- J A Del Rio
- Cell Biology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain
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