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Szperka CL, VanderPluym J, Orr SL, Oakley CB, Qubty W, Patniyot I, Lagman-Bartolome AM, Morris C, Gautreaux J, Victorio MC, Hagler S, Narula S, Candee MS, Cleves-Bayon C, Rao R, Fryer RH, Bicknese AR, Yonker M, Hershey AD, Powers SW, Goadsby PJ, Gelfand AA. Recommendations on the Use of Anti-CGRP Monoclonal Antibodies in Children and Adolescents. Headache 2018; 58:1658-1669. [PMID: 30324723 DOI: 10.1111/head.13414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Christina L Szperka
- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Departments of Neurology & Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Lousiana State University Health Science Center and Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Departments of Neurology & Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Lousiana State University Health Science Center and Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University & Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Hahn JD, Swanson LW. Connections of the lateral hypothalamic area juxtadorsomedial region in the male rat. J Comp Neurol 2012; 520:1831-90. [PMID: 22488503 DOI: 10.1002/cne.23064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The connections of the lateral hypothalamic area juxtadorsomedial region (LHAjd) were investigated in a series of pathway-tracing experiments involving iontophoretic co-injection of the tracers Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L; for outputs) and cholera toxin B subunit (CTB; for inputs). Results revealed that the LHAjd has connections with some 318 distinct gray matter regions encompassing all four subsystems-motor, sensory, cognitive, and behavioral state-included in a basic structure-function network model of the nervous system. Integration of these subsystems is necessary for the coordination and control of emotion and behavior, and in that regard the connections of the LHAjd indicate that it may have a prominent role. Furthermore, the LHAjd connections, together with the connections of other LHA differentiations studied similarly to date, indicate a distinct topographic organization that suggests each LHA differentiation has specifically differing degrees of involvement in the control of multiple behaviors. For the LHAjd, its involvement to a high degree in the control of defensive behavior, and to a lesser degree in the control of other behaviors, including ingestive and reproductive, is suggested. Moreover, the connections of the LHAjd suggest that its possible role in the control of these behaviors may be very broad in scope because they involve the somatic, neuroendocrine, and autonomic divisions of the nervous system. In addition, we suggest that connections between LHA differentiations may provide, at the level of the hypothalamus, a neuronal substrate for the coordinated control of multiple themes in the behavioral repertoire.
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- Joel D Hahn
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2520, USA.
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Harigai Y, Natsume M, Li F, Ohtani A, Senzaki K, Shiga T. Differential roles of calcitonin family peptides in the dendrite formation and spinogenesis of the cerebral cortex in vitro. Neuropeptides 2011; 45:263-72. [PMID: 21549427 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2011.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2011] [Revised: 04/08/2011] [Accepted: 04/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We examined roles of calcitonin family peptides in the initial stages of dendrite formation and the maturation of dendritic spines in the rat cerebral cortex in vitro. Embryonic day 18 cortical neurons were dissociated and cultured for 2-3days in the presence of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), calcitonin, amylin or adrenomedullin. The treatment of cortical neurons with CGRP promoted the formation of primary dendrites of non-GABAergic neurons. In contrast, the treatment with amylin and adrenomedullin for 3days inhibited the dendritic elongation of non-GABAergic neurons. Calcitonin had no effect on the initial dendrite formation. Next, we examined roles of the peptides in the spine formation. Embryonic day 16 cortical neurons were cultured for 14days and then treated acutely with CGRP, amylin or adrenomedullin for 24h. The density of filopodia, puncta/stubby spines and spines were increased by the CGRP treatment, whereas decreased by amylin. Therefore, CGRP and amylin showed opposite effects on the formation of dendritic filopodia, puncta and spines. Adrenomedullin had no effects on the spine formation. In conclusion, the present study showed that calcitonin family peptides have differential effects both in the dendrite formation during the initial stages and the spine formation of cortical neurons in vitro.
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- Yuichi Harigai
- University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Doctoral Program in Kansei, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Tennodai, Japan
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Rezaeian AH, Isokane T, Nishibori M, Chiba M, Hiraiwa N, Yoshizawa M, Yasue H. alphaCGRP and betaCGRP transcript amount in mouse tissues of various developmental stages and their tissue expression sites. Brain Dev 2009; 31:682-93. [PMID: 19062206 DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 10/08/2008] [Accepted: 10/20/2008] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The calcitonin gene-related peptides (CGRP), alphaCGRP and betaCGRP, have been implicated to play various roles in primates and rodent. However, since the expression information has been limited, in the present study, we measured the amount of gene expression in mouse brain, liver, kidney, heart, and testis at embryonic day (E) 14, E17, postnatal day (P) 1, P7, and adult using real-time PCR, and determined the precise localization of alphaCGRP and betaCGRP sense/antisense transcripts in tissues using in situ hybridization. The sense transcripts of alphaCGRP and betaCGRP were found mainly in brain, and their amount profiles were similar in the course of development: one expression peak was observed at E17 and the other at P7. The amounts of alphaCGRP transcripts were greater than those of betaCGRP transcripts in the range between 3.6 and 31 times. In the E17 and P7 brains, the localization pattern of alphaCGRP sense transcripts was similar with that of alphaCGRP antisense transcripts. Fewer transcripts were found in neuroblasts of E17 corpus callosum, and neuroblasts of P7 corpus callosum, olfactory bulb, plexus chorioideus, and ventriculus lateralis than in other brain areas. The localization pattern of betaCGRP sense and antisense transcripts was similar to that for alphaCGRP except that the betaCGRP antisense transcripts showed spot-like localizations. Additionally, the alphaCGRP sense transcript, and betaCGRP sense and antisense transcripts were found in parafollicular cells (C cells) of E17 thyroid lobe. These findings together indicate that alphaCGRP and betaCGRP have their own roles in the ontogenic process.
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Katafuchi T, Yasue H, Osaki T, Minamino N. Calcitonin receptor-stimulating peptide: Its evolutionary and functional relationship with calcitonin/calcitonin gene-related peptide based on gene structure. Peptides 2009; 30:1753-62. [PMID: 19540291 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2009] [Revised: 06/09/2009] [Accepted: 06/10/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This review focuses on the evolutionary and functional relationship of calcitonin receptor-stimulating peptide (CRSP) with calcitonin (CT)/calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in mammals. CRSP shows high sequence identity with CGRP, but distinct biological properties. CRSP genes (CRSPs) have been identified in mammals such as pigs and dogs of the Laurasiatheria, but not in primates and rodents of the Euarchontoglires or in non-placental mammals. CRSPs have genomic organizations highly similar to those of CT/CGRP genes (CT/CGRPs), which are located along with CGRPs in a locus between CYP2R1 and INSC, while the other members of the CGRP superfamily, adrenomedullin and amylin, show genomic organizations and locations distinct from CT, CGRP, and CRSP. Thus, we categorized these three peptides into the CT/CGRP/CRSP family. Non-placental mammals having one and placental mammals having multiple CT/CGRP/CRSP family genes suggests that multiplicity of CT/CGRP started at an early stage of mammalian evolution. In the placental mammals, Laurasiatheria generally possesses multiple CRSPs and only one CT/CGRP, while Euarchontoglires possesses CT/CGRP and CGRPbeta but no CRSP, indicating an increase in the diversity and multiplicity of this family of genes in mammalian evolution. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that some CRSPs have been generated very recently in mammalian evolution. Taken together, the increase in the number and complexity of the CT/CGRP/CRSP family genes may have due to evolutionary pressure to facilitate adaptation during mammalian evolution. In this regard, it is important to elucidate the physiological roles of CT, CGRP and CRSP from the viewpoint of the CT/CGRP/CRSP family even in Euarchontoglires.
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- Takeshi Katafuchi
- Department of Pharmacology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Gerrikagoitia I, García del Caño G, Canudas J, Sarasa M, Martínez-Millán L. Expression pattern of calcitonin gene-related peptide in the superior colliculus during postnatal development: demonstration of its intrinsic nature and possible roles. J Comp Neurol 2006; 494:721-37. [PMID: 16374811 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a widespread neuropeptide with multiple central and peripheral targets. In an analysis on the expression of this peptide throughout the rat brain during postnatal development, we observed a discrepancy between results obtained by immunohistochemistry and by in situ hybridization. In the superior colliculus (SC), only the immunohistochemical signal could be detected (Terrado et al. [1997] Neuroscience 80:951-970). Here we focus our attention on this structure because the temporal pattern of CGRP immunoreactivity observed in the SC suggested the participation of this peptide in the postnatal maturation of the SC. In the present study, we describe in detail the postnatal development of collicular CGRP-immunoreactive structures and their spatiotemporal relationship with cholinergic modules and definitively demonstrate the local expression of CGRP in the SC. CGRP-immunopositive axons and neurons were distributed within the most ventral part of superficial strata and in the intermediate strata of the SC, showing a peak in staining intensity and density at the end of the first postnatal week. At P14, CGRPergic terminal fibers are arranged in small, clearly defined patches in a complementary manner with respect to the cholinergic modules, which start forming at this stage. By using Western blot and RT-PCR analyses, and by means of injections of antisense oligonucleotides, both the presence of CGRP peptide in the SC and the local expression of alpha-CGRP transcripts in collicular neurons were demonstrated. A possible role of CGRP is discussed in the context of postnatal modular compartmentalization of collicular afferents.
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- Inmaculada Gerrikagoitia
- Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
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Carrodeguas JA, Rodolosse A, Garza MV, Sanz-Clemente A, Pérez-Pé R, Lacosta AM, Domínguez L, Monleón I, Sánchez-Díaz R, Sorribas V, Sarasa M. The chick embryo appears as a natural model for research in beta-amyloid precursor protein processing. Neuroscience 2005; 134:1285-300. [PMID: 16039787 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2005] [Revised: 05/09/2005] [Accepted: 05/12/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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This study reveals that the chick embryo has active the machinery for the production and degradation of the amyloid beta peptide characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. We cloned the principal beta-amyloid precursor protein isoforms in the chick embryo and observed that they are highly homologous to the human sequences and identical at the C-terminal sequence, including the amyloid beta domain. Mammals such as rat or mouse, more commonly used as animal models of human diseases, have a distinct amyloid beta sequence. The distribution of beta-amyloid precursor protein isoforms in the chick embryo revealed that, as in humans, their expression is ubiquitous and the prototype beta-amyloid precursor protein-695 predominated in the nervous system. We also found that the chick embryo expresses the genes for the main proteolytic proteases implicated in the production of amyloid beta, including BACE-1, BACE-2, presenilin-1, presenilin-2 and nicastrin, as well as the amyloid beta-degrading enzyme neprilysin, or ADAM-17, a protease implicated in the non-amyloidogenic processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein. We have also found that between amyloid beta40 and amyloid beta42, this latter seems to be the major amyloid beta peptide produced during chick embryogenesis. The chick embryo appears as a suitable natural model to study cell biology and developmental function of beta-amyloid precursor protein and a potential assay system for drugs that regulate beta-amyloid precursor protein processing.
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- J A Carrodeguas
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Genetics, University of Zaragoza, Spain
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Dobolyi A, Irwin S, Makara G, Usdin TB, Palkovits M. Calcitonin gene-related peptide-containing pathways in the rat forebrain. J Comp Neurol 2005; 489:92-119. [PMID: 15977170 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The present study focuses on the topographical distribution of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-containing cell bodies and fibers and their connections and pathways in the rat forebrain. We confirm previously reported CGRP projections from the perifornical area of the hypothalamus to the lateral septum, from the posterior thalamus to the caudate putamen and cerebral cortex, and from the parabrachial nuclei to the central extended amygdala, lateral hypothalamus, and ventromedial thalamus. Despite previous descriptions of CGRP in the central nervous system, important neuroanatomical aspects of the forebrain CGRP system remained obscure, which we addressed by using brain lesion techniques combined with modern immunohistology. We first report CGRP terminal fields in the olfactory-anterior septal region and also CGRP projections from the parabrachial nuclei to the olfactory-anterior septal region, the medial prefrontal cortex, the interstitial nucleus of the anterior commissure, the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract, the anterior amygdaloid area, the posterolateral cortical amygdaloid nucleus, and the dorsolateral part of the lateral amygdaloid nucleus. In addition, we identified a CGRP cell group in the premamillary nuclei and showed that it projects to the medial CGRP layer of the lateral septum. CGRP fibers usually join other pathways rather than forming bundles. They run along the fornix from the hypothalamus, along the supraoptic decussations or the inferior thalamic peduncle-stria terminalis pathway from the posterior thalamus, and along the superior cerebellar peduncle, thalamic fasciculus, and ansa peduncularis from the parabrachial nuclei. This description of the forebrain CGRP system will facilitate investigation of its role in higher brain functions.
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- Arpád Dobolyi
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Behzadi G, Ganji F. Morphological alteration in oro-facial CGRP containing motoneurons due to congenital thyroid hypofunction. Peptides 2005; 26:1486-91. [PMID: 15888375 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.03.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Under congenital thyroid hypofunction, the oro-facial large and small calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactive motoneurons were classified into strong, moderate, weak and negative intensity in offspring weaned rats. While 50% of neurons in the trigeminal motor nucleus (Mo5) were of the large type, this value dropped to 30% in hypothyroid pups. Hypothyroid trigeminal accessory nucleus (Mo5-AC) contained 10% large motoneurons versus about 45% in normal pups. Normal facial nucleus (Mo7) had 20% large motoneurons in contrast with 10% in hypothyroid pups. These values are significant in comparison with the normal pattern of oro-facial CGRP positive immunoreactive motoneurons as well as those devoid of immunostaining.
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- G Behzadi
- Physiology Department and Neuroscience Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences University, P.O. Box 19835-181, Tehran, Iran.
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Blasco T, Aramayona JJ, Alcalde AI, Catalán J, Sarasa M, Sorribas V. Rat kidney MAP17 induces cotransport of Na-mannose and Na-glucose in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2003; 285:F799-810. [PMID: 12812916 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00149.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Renal reabsorption is the main mechanism that controls mannose homeostasis. This takes place through a specific Na-coupled uphill transport system, the molecular identity of which is unknown. We prepared and screened a size-selected rat kidney cortex cDNA library through the expression of mannose transport in Xenopus laevis oocytes. We have identified a membrane protein that induces high-affinity and specific Na-dependent transport of d-mannose and d-glucose in X. laevis oocytes, most likely through stimulation of the capacity of an endogenous transport system of the oocyte. Sequencing has revealed that the cDNA encodes the counterpart of the human membrane-associated protein MAP17, previously known by its overexpression in renal, colon, lung, and breast carcinomas. We show that MAP17 is a 12.2-kDa nonglycosylated membrane protein that locates to the brush-border plasma membrane and the Golgi apparatus of transfected cells and that it is expressed in the proximal tubules of the kidney cortex and in the spermatids of the seminiferous tubules. It spans twice the cell membrane, with both termini inside the cell, and seems to form homodimers through intracellular Cys55, a residue also involved in transport expression. MAP17 is responsible for mannose transport expression in oocytes by rat kidney cortex mRNA. The induced transport has the functional characteristics of a Na-glucose cotransporter (SGLT), because d-glucose and alpha-methyl-d-glucopyranoside are also accepted substrates that are inhibited by phloridzin. The corresponding transporter from the proximal tubule remains to be identified, but it is different from the known mammalian SGLT-1, -2, and -3.
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- Tatiana Blasco
- Department of Toxicology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza E50013, Spain
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González-Forero D, De La Cruz RR, Delgado-García JM, Alvarez FJ, Pastor AM. Correlation between CGRP immunoreactivity and firing activity in cat abducens motoneurons. J Comp Neurol 2002; 451:201-12. [PMID: 12210133 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A relationship between motoneuron activity and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) expression was previously suggested based on indirect inferences. We show here a positive correlation between CGRP immunoreactivity and firing activity in an experimental model that used tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) to alter basal firing levels. A low dose (0.5 ng/kg) of TeNT injected in the lateral rectus muscle raised the basal firing rate of ipsilateral abducens motoneurons, estimated as the firing rate at straight-ahead gaze (F(0)); the firing rate returned to control values after 2 weeks. In contrast, a high dose (5 ng/kg) of TeNT decreased basal firing, which recovered slowly over a 7-week period. Expression of CGRP immunoreactivity by abducens motoneurons, preferentially related to betaCGRP gene expression, was analyzed during these periods of altered firing activity. The number of CGRP-immunofluorescent abducens motoneurons increased to approximately 120% by 7 days after low-dose TeNT, to include all available motoneurons in the nucleus. In addition, the average CGRP immunofluorescence optical density inside motoneurons almost doubled after 4 days and returned toward control values in the following 2 weeks. In contrast, a high-dose injection of TeNT reduced the number of CGRP-immunofluorescent motoneurons to 5.4% of control 7 days post injection, and the number returned to 77.6% after 42 days. CGRP immunofluorescence intensity inside motoneurons was also reduced. Regression analysis of F(0) values with either the number of CGRP-immunolabeled motoneurons, their average immunofluorescence intensity, or both factors combined resulted in positive correlations with regression coefficients of 0.87 or higher. Therefore, CGRP expression and firing activity in abducens motoneurons are positively correlated.
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- David González-Forero
- Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Animal, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Morara S, van der Want JJ, de Weerd H, Provini L, Rosina A. Ultrastructural analysis of climbing fiber-Purkinje cell synaptogenesis in the rat cerebellum. Neuroscience 2002; 108:655-71. [PMID: 11738501 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(01)00433-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Previous reports have described the transient expression of the neuropeptides calcitonin gene-related peptide and neuropeptide Y in selected subsets of rat olivocerebellar compartments during embryonic and postnatal development. Using these neuropeptides as endogenous markers for olivocerebellar fibers, the aim of this electron microscopic analysis was to reveal the synaptogenetic processes occurring between climbing fibers and their target Purkinje cells, from embryonic day 19 to postnatal day 16, the period during which Purkinje cells undergo intense emission and retraction of dendrites, and climbing fibers translocate their synapses along Purkinje cell membrane surfaces. The present findings provide the first direct evidence that climbing fiber synaptogenesis starts on embryonic day 19 and that these first synapses mainly involve the Purkinje cell embryonic dendrite rather than the Purkinje cell soma. At the same age, the presence of unlabeled synapses resembling calcitonin gene-related peptide-labeled synapses in the Purkinje cell plate makes it possible to conclude that climbing fibers form a major synaptic investment on embryonic Purkinje cells, a finding that strongly supports the hypothesis of an early differentiating role of climbing fibers on cerebellar development. Furthermore, during the period of intense dendritic remodeling of Purkinje cells, 'myelin figures' were often detected in Purkinje cell dendrites suggesting that they may at least in part represent real ultrastructural markers of membrane turnover that identifies the sites where Purkinje cell dendritic rearrangement is taking place. Finally the finding that the climbing fiber terminals apposed to degenerating dendrites did not generally show signs of degeneration leads us to suggests that climbing fiber translocation from a perisomatic to a dendritic location may be driven by the Purkinje cell dendritic remodeling.
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- S Morara
- Istituto di Neuroscienze e Bioimmagini, CNR, Milan, Italy
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Sarasa M, Sorribas V, Terradoa1 J, Climent S, Palacios JM, Mengod G. Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor proteins display specific patterns of expression during embryogenesis. Mech Dev 2000; 94:233-6. [PMID: 10842078 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00297-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The beta-amyloid precursor proteins (betaAPPs) are a family of glycosylated transmembrane proteins that include in their sequences the beta-amyloid peptide, a major component of the characteristic amyloid deposits or senile plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients and aged Down's syndrome subjects. Various betaAPP isoforms, mainly betaAPP-695, betaAPP-714, betaAPP-751 and betaAPP-770, the number corresponding to the number of amino acids they encode, resulting from the alternative splicing of a single primary transcript have been described. Using oligonucleotides recognizing each of the four major Alzheimer's betaAPP mRNAs, we have found that each betaAPP mRNA displays a specific temporal and spatial pattern of expression. The prototype isoform betaAPP-695 occurs early in cells actively implicated in morphogenetic events, as those mesodermal cells invaginating at the level of the primitive streak, and it is later restricted to the neurectodermal (neural tube, neural crest and neurogenic placode) derivatives. By contrast, the longest isoform betaAPP-770 appears later and restricted to mesodermal and endodermal derivatives. The isoforms betaAPP-714 and betaAPP-751 are still expressed later than the other two isoforms and distributed ubiquitously, though betaAPP-714 transcripts predominate typically within the neural tube.
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- M Sarasa
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Genetics, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
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Doi Y, Peng H, Kudo H, Hamasaki K, Fujimoto S. Expression of alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide in the enteric nervous system of rat small intestine. Neurosci Lett 2000; 285:33-6. [PMID: 10788701 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01018-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We first detected alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide (alpha-CGRP) precursor mRNA in the enteric nervous system (ENS) of rat small intestine by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The nucleotide sequence of the RT-PCR product was completely identical to that found in other organs. By in situ hybridization using digoxygenin-labeled alpha-CGRP precursor cRNA probe, we found that antisense probes detected a signal on nerve cell bodies of both submucosal and myenteric plexuses. Our findings indicate that the rat ENS participates in synthesis of alpha-CGRP precursor.
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- Y Doi
- Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1, Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Lu JT, Son YJ, Lee J, Jetton TL, Shiota M, Moscoso L, Niswender KD, Loewy AD, Magnuson MA, Sanes JR, Emeson RB. Mice lacking alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide exhibit normal cardiovascular regulation and neuromuscular development. Mol Cell Neurosci 1999; 14:99-120. [PMID: 10532808 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1999.0767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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alpha-Calcitonin gene-related peptide (alphaCGRP) is a pleiotropic peptide neuromodulator that is widely expressed throughout the Central and peripheral nervous systems. CGRP has been implicated in a variety of physiological processes including peripheral vasodilation, cardiac acceleration nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) synthesis and function, testicular descent, nociception, carbohydrate metabolism, gastrointestinal motility, neurogenic inflammation, and gastric acid secretion. To provide a better understanding of the physiological role(s) mediated by this peptide neurotransmitter, we have generated alphaCGRP-null mice by targeted modification in embryonic stem cells. Mice lacking alpha CGRP expression demonstrate no obvious phenotypic differences from their wild-type littermates. Detailed analysis of systemic cardiovascular function revealed no differences between control and mutant mice regarding heart rate and blood pressure under basal or exercise-induced conditions and subsequent to pharmacological manipulation. Characterization of neuromuscular junction in morphology including nicotinic receptor localization, terminal sprouting in response to denervation, developmental regulation of AChR subunit expression, and synapse elimination also revealed no differences in alphaCGRP-deficient animals. These results suggest that alphaCGRP is not required for the systemic regulation of cardiovascular hemodynamics or development of the neuromuscular junction.
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- J T Lu
- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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Terrado J, Gerrikagoitia I, Domínguez L, Raldúa D, Martínez-Millán L, Sarasa M. Expression of the genes for alpha-type and beta-type calcitonin gene-related peptide during rat embryogenesis. Neuroscience 1999; 92:713-27. [PMID: 10408620 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00730-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Throughout rat embryogenesis we analysed the expression patterns of the three mature transcripts generated from the two calcitonin gene-related peptide genes: calcitonin, alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide, and beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNAs. In addition, we examined in parallel the distribution of calcitonin gene-related peptide and calcitonin immunoreactivity. Of the three transcripts, beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA was first detected in sensory ganglia on embryonic day 14, and by embryonic day 15 was seen to a lesser degree in motor neurons and autonomic ganglia. Starting at embryonic day 16, however, the highest levels of beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA were found in motor neurons rather than sensory ganglia. Alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA was first detected on embryonic day 16 in both sensory ganglia and motor neurons, but at lower levels than beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide, particularly in the motor neurons of the spinal cord. By embryonic day 20, transcripts for alpha- and beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide were expressed in distinct brain regions. High levels of alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA were detected in hypoglossal, facial, and parabrachial nuclei, and moderate levels in the trigeminal motor and ambiguus nuclei. By contrast, beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA was detected at low levels in hypoglossal, ambiguus, facial, and parabrachial nuclei, and at high levels in the trigeminal nucleus. In the oculomotor-trochlear nucleus, beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA was the sole isotype expressed. Low levels of messenger RNA for both calcitonin gene-related peptide transcripts were appreciated in the inferior olive. Outside the nervous system, alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA was weakly expressed in the thyroid gland and beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA in the thymus. Throughout embryogenesis, calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity usually followed the expression of either alpha- or beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA. Calcitonin messenger RNA and protein were detected only in the thyroid gland from embryonic day 18 onward. This work shows that of the three mature transcripts produced by the two calcitonin gene-related peptide genes, beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide messenger RNA is the predominant transcript produced early in rat embryogenesis. However, by perinatal stages alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide shows the highest expression in the brain and spinal cord. In autonomic ganglia, beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide is either the sole or the predominant transcript. Unlike the chick embryo in which calcitonin messenger RNA is expressed early in the CNS, in rat it was only expressed outside the nervous system in the thyroid gland during the last days of embryogenesis.
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- J Terrado
- Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Genetics, University of Zaragoza, Spain
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Röhrenbeck AM, Bette M, Hooper DC, Nyberg F, Eiden LE, Dietzschold B, Weihe E. Upregulation of COX-2 and CGRP expression in resident cells of the Borna disease virus-infected brain is dependent upon inflammation. Neurobiol Dis 1999; 6:15-34. [PMID: 10078970 DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1998.0225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Infection of immunocompetent adult rats with Borna disease virus (BDV) causes severe encephalitis and neural dysfunction. The expression of COX-2 and CGRP, genes previously shown to be implicated in CNS disease and peripheral inflammation, was dramatically upregulated in the cortical neurons of acutely BDV-infected rats. Neuronal COX-2 and CGRP upregulation was predominantly seen in brain areas where ED1-positive macrophages/microglia accumulated. In addition, COX-2 expression was strongly induced in brain endothelial cells and the number of COX-2 immunoreactive microglial cells was increased. In contrast, despite increased expression of viral antigens, neither COX-2 nor CGRP expression was altered in the CNS of BDV-infected rats treated with dexamethasone, or tolerant to BDV. Thus, increased CGRP and COX-2 expression in the BDV-infected brain is the result of the inflammatory response and likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of virus-induced encephalitis.
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- A M Röhrenbeck
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
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Terrado J, Gerrikagoitia I, Raldúa D, Sorribas V, Martínez-Millán L, Sarasa M. The two mature transcripts of the chick calcitonin gene are expressed within the central nervous system during embryogenesis. Mech Dev 1998; 77:81-4. [PMID: 9784613 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00129-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Calcitonin mRNA and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) mRNA both are generated from the calcitonin gene because of tissue-specific alternative splicing of the primary transcript. It is currently established that, of the two mature transcripts, calcitonin mRNA is far the predominant transcript produced in thyroid C-cells whereas only CGRP mRNA is produced in the nervous system. However, here we provide evidence that the two splicing forms of the chick calcitonin primary transcript are found within the developing central nervous system, although displaying specific patterns of expression. While CGRP mRNA is first expressed in motor neurons at rather advanced stages of embryogenesis, calcitonin mRNA is expressed in the floor plate and dorsal rhombencephalon from earliest stages.
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- J Terrado
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Miguel Servet 177, E-50013, Zaragoza, Spain
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