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Selivanova EK, Shvetsova AA, Borzykh AA, Gaynullina DK, Kiryukhina OO, Lukoshkova EV, Potekhina VM, Kuzmin VS, Tarasova OS. Intrauterine L-NAME Exposure Weakens the Development of Sympathetic Innervation and Induces the Remodeling of Arterial Vessels in Two-Week-Old Rats. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222212327. [PMID: 34830206 PMCID: PMC8618620 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to stimulate differentiation and increase the survival of ganglionic sympathetic neurons. The proportion of neuronal NOS-immunoreactive sympathetic preganglionic neurons is particularly high in newborn rats and decreases with maturation. However, the role of NO in the development of vascular sympathetic innervation has never been studied before. We tested the hypothesis that intrauterine NO deficiency weakened the development of vascular sympathetic innervation and thereby changed the contractility of peripheral arteries and blood pressure level in two-week-old offspring. Pregnant rats consumed NOS inhibitor L-NAME (250 mg/L in drinking water) from gestational day 10 until delivery. Pups in the L-NAME group had a reduced body weight and blood level of NO metabolites at 1–2 postnatal days. Saphenous arteries from two-week-old L-NAME offspring demonstrated a lower density of sympathetic innervation, a smaller inner diameter, reduced maximal active force and decreased α-actin/β-actin mRNA expression ratio compared to the controls. Importantly, pups in the L-NAME group exhibited decreased blood pressure levels before, but not after, ganglionic blockade with chlorisondamine. In conclusion, intrauterine L-NAME exposure is followed by the impaired development of the sympathetic nervous system in early postnatal life, which is accompanied by the structural and functional remodeling of arterial blood vessels.
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- Ekaterina K. Selivanova
- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, State Research Center of the Russian Federation, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia;
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Laboratory for the Study of Information Processes at the Cellular and Molecular Levels, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, Russia;
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- Laboratory of Experimental Pathology of the Heart, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 121552 Moscow, Russia;
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, State Research Center of the Russian Federation, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia;
- Correspondence:
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Silverman DA, Martinez VK, Dougherty PM, Myers JN, Calin GA, Amit M. Cancer-Associated Neurogenesis and Nerve-Cancer Cross-talk. Cancer Res 2021; 81:1431-1440. [PMID: 33334813 PMCID: PMC7969424 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-20-2793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this review, we highlight recent discoveries regarding mechanisms contributing to nerve-cancer cross-talk and the effects of nerve-cancer cross-talk on tumor progression and dissemination. High intratumoral nerve density correlates with poor prognosis and high recurrence across multiple solid tumor types. Recent research has shown that cancer cells express neurotrophic markers such as nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor and release axon-guidance molecules such as ephrin B1 to promote axonogenesis. Tumor cells recruit new neural progenitors to the tumor milieu and facilitate their maturation into adrenergic infiltrating nerves. Tumors also rewire established nerves to adrenergic phenotypes via exosome-induced neural reprogramming by p53-deficient tumors. In turn, infiltrating sympathetic nerves facilitate cancer progression. Intratumoral adrenergic nerves release noradrenaline to stimulate angiogenesis via VEGF signaling and enhance the rate of tumor growth. Intratumoral parasympathetic nerves may have a dichotomous role in cancer progression and may induce Wnt-β-catenin signals that expand cancer stem cells. Importantly, infiltrating nerves not only influence the tumor cells themselves but also impact other cells of the tumor stroma. This leads to enhanced sympathetic signaling and glucocorticoid production, which influences neutrophil and macrophage differentiation, lymphocyte phenotype, and potentially lymphocyte function. Although much remains unexplored within this field, fundamental discoveries underscore the importance of nerve-cancer cross-talk to tumor progression and may provide the foundation for developing effective targets for the inhibition of tumor-induced neurogenesis and tumor progression.
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- Deborah A Silverman
- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Symptom Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
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Sympathetic innervation of the stomach was studied in rats by the method of retrograde axon transport of Fast Blue in postnatal ontogenesis. The number of labeled neurons increased in the first 10 days of life and then did not change until the senescence. All labeled neurons innervating the stomach contain the catecholamine synthesis enzyme, tyrosine hydroxylase. The proportion of labeled neuropeptide Y-immunopositive neurons did not change in the development, the percentage of labeled calbindin-immunoreactive neurons decreased in the first month of life.
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- A I Emanuilov
- Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, 150000, Russia
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- Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, 150000, Russia.
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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Petrullo LA, Mandalaywala TM, Parker KJ, Maestripieri D, Higham JP. Effects of early life adversity on cortisol/salivary alpha-amylase symmetry in free-ranging juvenile rhesus macaques. Horm Behav 2016; 86:78-84. [PMID: 27170429 PMCID: PMC6719785 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Early life adversity (ELA) affects physiological and behavioral development. One key component is the relationship between the developing Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS). Recent studies suggest a relationship between early life adversity and asymmetry in cortisol (a measure of HPA activation) and salivary alpha-amylase (sAA: a correlate of SNS activation) responses to stress among human children, but to our knowledge there have been no comparable studies in nonhumans. Here, we investigate the responses of these two analytes in "low stress" and "high stress" situations in free-ranging juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. Behavioral data on maternal maltreatment were collected during the first 3months of life to determine individual rates of ELA, and saliva samples were collected from subjects noninvasively during juvenility. Irrespective of ELA, salivary alpha-amylase levels were lower in low stress situations and higher in high stress situations. For cortisol however, high ELA subjects exhibited higher low stress concentrations and blunted acute responses during high stress situations compared to moderate and low ELA subjects. Cortisol and sAA values were positively correlated among low ELA subjects, suggesting symmetry, but were uncorrelated or negatively correlated among moderate and high ELA subjects, suggesting asymmetry in these individuals. These findings indicate dysregulation of the stress response among juveniles maltreated during infancy: specifically, attenuated cortisol reactivity coupled with typical sAA reactivity characterize the stress response profiles of juveniles exposed to higher rates of ELA during the first 3months of life.
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Institute for Mind and Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Institute for Mind and Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
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Tomat AL, Salazar FJ. Mechanisms involved in developmental programming of hypertension and renal diseases. Gender differences. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2015; 18:63-77. [PMID: 25390003 DOI: 10.1515/hmbci-2013-0054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND A substantial body of epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that a poor fetal and neonatal environment may "program" susceptibility in the offspring to later development of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS This review focuses on current knowledge from the available literature regarding the mechanisms linking an adverse developmental environment with an increased risk for cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases in adult life. Moreover, this review highlights important sex-dependent differences in the adaptation to developmental insults. RESULTS Developmental programming of several diseases is secondary to changes in different mechanisms inducing important alterations in the normal development of several organs that lead to significant changes in birth weight. The different diseases occurring as a consequence of an adverse environment during development are secondary to morphological and functional cardiovascular and renal changes, to epigenetic changes and to an activation of several hormonal and regulatory systems, such as angiotensin II, sympathetic activity, nitric oxide, COX2-derived metabolites, oxidative stress and inflammation. The important sex-dependent differences in the developmental programming of diseases seem to be partly secondary to the effects of sex hormones. Recent studies have shown that the progression of these diseases is accelerated during aging in both sexes. CONCLUSIONS The cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases during adult life that occur as a consequence of several insults during fetal and postnatal periods are secondary to multiple structural and functional changes. Future studies are needed in order to prevent the origin and reduce the incidence and consequences of developmental programmed diseases.
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Slotkin TA. Effects of perinatal exposure to methadone on development of neurotransmission: biochemical bases for behavioral alterations. Monogr Neural Sci 2015; 9:153-8. [PMID: 6136907 DOI: 10.1159/000406887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Contreras GA, Lee YH, Mottillo EP, Granneman JG. Inducible brown adipocytes in subcutaneous inguinal white fat: the role of continuous sympathetic stimulation. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2014; 307:E793-9. [PMID: 25184993 PMCID: PMC4216946 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00033.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Brown adipocytes (BA) generate heat in response to sympathetic activation and are the main site of nonshivering thermogenesis in mammals. Although most BA are located in classic brown adipose tissue depots, BA are also abundant in the inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) before weaning. The number of BA is correlated with the density of sympathetic innervation in iWAT; however, the role of continuous sympathetic tone in the establishment and maintenance of BA in WAT has not been investigated. BA marker expression in iWAT was abundant in weaning mice but was greatly reduced by 8 wk of age. Nonetheless, BA phenotype could be rapidly reinstated by acute β₃-adrenergic stimulation with CL-316,243 (CL). Genetic tagging of adipocytes with adiponectin-CreER(T2) demonstrated that CL reinstates uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) expression in adipocytes that were present before weaning. Chronic surgical denervation dramatically reduced the ability of CL to induce the expression of UCP1 and other BA markers in the tissue as a whole, and this loss of responsiveness was prevented by concurrent treatment with CL. These results indicate that ongoing sympathetic activity is critical to preserve the ability of iWAT fat cells to express a BA phenotype upon adrenergic stimulation.
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MESH Headings
- Adipocytes, Brown/cytology
- Adipocytes, Brown/metabolism
- Adipogenesis
- Adrenergic beta-3 Receptor Agonists/pharmacology
- Aging
- Animals
- Biomarkers/metabolism
- Crosses, Genetic
- Denervation/adverse effects
- Dioxoles/pharmacology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/drug effects
- Groin
- Immunohistochemistry
- Ion Channels/agonists
- Ion Channels/metabolism
- Mice, 129 Strain
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mitochondrial Proteins/agonists
- Mitochondrial Proteins/metabolism
- Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal/cytology
- Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal/growth & development
- Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal/innervation
- Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal/metabolism
- Sympathetic Nervous System/drug effects
- Sympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Sympathetic Nervous System/metabolism
- Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
- Uncoupling Protein 1
- Weaning
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- G Andres Contreras
- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and
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- Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and
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- Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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Children exposed to a maternal Western-style diet in utero have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Understanding the mechanisms and an investigation of possible interventions are critical to reversing this phenomenon. We examined the impact of maternal Western-style diet consumption on the development of islet vascularization and innervation, both of which are critical to normal islet function, in fetal and juvenile offspring. Furthermore, we assessed whether improved dietary intake or resveratrol supplementation could ameliorate the harmful consequences of Western-style diet consumption during pregnancy. Adult female Japanese macaques were maintained on a control or Western-style diet for 4-7 yr. One cohort of dams was switched back onto a control diet, whereas another cohort received resveratrol supplementation throughout gestation. Pregnancies were terminated in the early third trimester by C-section, or offspring were born naturally and sent to necropsy at 1 yr of age. Western-style diet consumption resulted in impaired fetal islet capillary density and sympathetic islet innervation. Furthermore, this reduction in vascularization persisted in the juvenile offspring. This effect is independent of changes in the expression of key angiogenic markers. Diet reversal normalized islet vascularization to control offspring levels, whereas resveratrol supplementation caused a significant increase in capillary density above controls. These data provide a novel mechanism by which maternal Western-style diet consumption leads to increased susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in the offspring. Importantly, an improved maternal diet may mitigate these harmful effects. However, until the long-term consequences of increased vascularization can be determined, resveratrol use during pregnancy is not advised.
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- Lynley D Pound
- Division of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon; and
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon; and
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon; and Division of Reproductive and Developmental Science, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon
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Brunet I, Gordon E, Han J, Cristofaro B, Broqueres-You D, Liu C, Bouvrée K, Zhang J, del Toro R, Mathivet T, Larrivée B, Jagu J, Pibouin-Fragner L, Pardanaud L, Machado MJC, Kennedy TE, Zhuang Z, Simons M, Levy BI, Tessier-Lavigne M, Grenz A, Eltzschig H, Eichmann A. Netrin-1 controls sympathetic arterial innervation. J Clin Invest 2014; 124:3230-40. [PMID: 24937433 DOI: 10.1172/jci75181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Autonomic sympathetic nerves innervate peripheral resistance arteries, thereby regulating vascular tone and controlling blood supply to organs. Despite the fundamental importance of blood flow control, how sympathetic arterial innervation develops remains largely unknown. Here, we identified the axon guidance cue netrin-1 as an essential factor required for development of arterial innervation in mice. Netrin-1 was produced by arterial smooth muscle cells (SMCs) at the onset of innervation, and arterial innervation required the interaction of netrin-1 with its receptor, deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC), on sympathetic growth cones. Function-blocking approaches, including cell type-specific deletion of the genes encoding Ntn1 in SMCs and Dcc in sympathetic neurons, led to severe and selective reduction of sympathetic innervation and to defective vasoconstriction in resistance arteries. These findings indicate that netrin-1 and DCC are critical for the control of arterial innervation and blood flow regulation in peripheral organs.
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Hu H, Xuan Y, Wang Y, Xue M, Suo F, Li X, Cheng W, Li X, Yin J, Liu J, Yan S. Targeted NGF siRNA delivery attenuates sympathetic nerve sprouting and deteriorates cardiac dysfunction in rats with myocardial infarction. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95106. [PMID: 24755692 PMCID: PMC3995702 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Nerve growth factor (NGF) is involved in nerve sprouting, hyper-innervation, angiogenesis, anti-apoptosis, and preservation of cardiac function after myocardial infarction (MI). Positively modulating NGF expression may represent a novel pharmacological strategy to improve post-infarction prognosis. In this study, lentivirus encoding NGF short interfering RNA (siRNA) was prepared, and MI was modeled in the rat using left anterior descending coronary artery ligation. Rats were randomly grouped to receive intramyocardial injection of lentiviral solution containing NGF-siRNA (n = 19, MI-SiNGF group), lentiviral solution containing empty vector (n = 18, MI-GFP group) or 0.9% NaCl solution (n = 18, MI-control group), or to receive thoracotomy and pericardiotomy (n = 17, sham-operated group). At 1, 2, 4, and 8 wk after transduction, rats in the MI-control group had higher levels of NGF mRNA and protein than those in the sham-operated group, rats in the MI-GFP group showed similar levels as the MI-control group, and rats in the MI-SiNGF group had lower levels compared to the MI-GFP group, indicating that MI model was successfully established and NGF siRNA effectively inhibited the expression of NGF. At 8 wk, echocardiographic and hemodynamic studies revealed a more severe cardiac dysfunction in the MI-siRNA group compared to the MI-GFP group. Moreover, rats in the MI-siRNA group had lower mRNA and protein expression levels of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and growth-associated protein 43-positive nerve fibers (GAP-43) at both the infarcted border and within the non-infarcted left ventricles (LV). NGF silencing also reduced the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression and decreased the arteriolar and capillary densities at the infarcted border compared to the MI-GFP group. Histological analysis indicated a large infarcted size in the MI-SiNGF group. These findings suggested that endogenous NGF silencing attenuated sympathetic nerve sprouting and angiogenesis, enlarged the infarct size, aggravated cardiac dysfunction, and potentially contributed to an unfavorable prognosis after MI.
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- Hesheng Hu
- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Medical Research Center, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Nohara K, Waraich RS, Liu S, Ferron M, Waget A, Meyers MS, Karsenty G, Burcelin R, Mauvais-Jarvis F. Developmental androgen excess programs sympathetic tone and adipose tissue dysfunction and predisposes to a cardiometabolic syndrome in female mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2013; 304:E1321-30. [PMID: 23612996 PMCID: PMC3680697 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00620.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Among women, the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is considered a form of metabolic syndrome with reproductive abnormalities. Women with PCOS show increased sympathetic tone, visceral adiposity with enlarged adipocytes, hypoadiponectinemia, insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, increased inactive osteocalcin, and hypertension. Excess fetal exposure to androgens has been hypothesized to play a role in the pathogenesis of PCOS. Previously, we showed that neonatal exposure to the androgen testosterone (NT) programs leptin resistance in adult female mice. Here, we studied the impact of NT on lean and adipose tissues, sympathetic tone in cardiometabolic tissues, and the development of metabolic dysfunction in mice. Neonatally androgenized adult female mice (NTF) displayed masculinization of lean tissues with increased cardiac and skeletal muscle as well as kidney masses. NTF mice showed increased and dysfunctional white adipose tissue with increased sympathetic tone in both visceral and subcutaneous fat as well as increased number of enlarged and insulin-resistant adipocytes that displayed altered expression of developmental genes and hypoadiponectinemia. NTF exhibited dysfunctional brown adipose tissue with increased mass and decreased energy expenditure. They also displayed decreased undercarboxylated and active osteocalcin and were predisposed to obesity during chronic androgen excess. NTF showed increased renal sympathetic tone associated with increased blood pressure, and they developed glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. Thus, developmental exposure to testosterone in female mice programs features of cardiometabolic dysfunction, as can be observed in women with PCOS, including increased sympathetic tone, visceral adiposity, insulin resistance, prediabetes, and hypertension.
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- Kazunari Nohara
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, and
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Neuroblastoma is a solid tumour that arises from the developing sympathetic nervous system. Over the past decade, our understanding of this disease has advanced tremendously. The future challenge is to apply the knowledge gained to developing risk-based therapies and, ultimately, improving outcome. In this Review we discuss the key discoveries in the developmental biology, molecular genetics and immunology of neuroblastoma, as well as new translational tools for bringing these promising scientific advances into the clinic.
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- Nai-Kong V. Cheung
- Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065
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- Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
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Kasumacic N, Glover JC, Perreault MC. Vestibular-mediated synaptic inputs and pathways to sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the neonatal mouse. J Physiol 2012; 590:5809-26. [PMID: 22946097 PMCID: PMC3528993 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.234609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Accepted: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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To assess when vestibulosympathetic projections become functional postnatally, and to establish a preparation in which vestibulosympathetic circuitry can be characterized more precisely, we used an optical approach to record VIIIth nerve-evoked synaptic inputs to thoracic sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPNs) in newborn mice. Stimulation of the VIIIth nerve was performed in an isolated brainstem-spinal cord preparation after retrogradely labelling with the fluorescent calcium indicator Calcium Green 1-conjugated dextran amine, the SPNs and the somatic motoneurons (MNs) in the thoracic (T) segments T2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Synaptically mediated calcium responses could be visualized and recorded in individual SPNs and MNs, and analysed with respect to latency, temporal pattern, magnitude and synaptic pharmacology. VIIIth nerve stimulation evoked responses in all SPNs and MNs investigated. The SPN responses had onset latencies from 90 to 200 ms, compared with much shorter latencies in MNs, and were completely abolished by mephenesin, a drug that preferentially reduces polysynaptic over monosynaptic transmission. Bicuculline and picrotoxin, but not strychnine, increased the magnitudes of the SPN responses without changing the onset latencies, suggesting a convergence of concomitant excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs. Lesions strategically placed to test the involvement of direct vestibulospinal pathways versus indirect pathways within the brainstem showed that vestibulosympathetic inputs in the neonate are mediated predominantly, if not exclusively, by the latter. Thus, already at birth, synaptic connections in the vestibulosympathetic reflex are functional and require the involvement of the ventrolateral medulla as in adult mammals.
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- Nedim Kasumacic
- Laboratory of Neural Development and Optical Recording (NDEVOR), Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
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Grant WF, Nicol LE, Thorn SR, Grove KL, Friedman JE, Marks DL. Perinatal exposure to a high-fat diet is associated with reduced hepatic sympathetic innervation in one-year old male Japanese macaques. PLoS One 2012; 7:e48119. [PMID: 23118937 PMCID: PMC3484148 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2012] [Accepted: 09/19/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Our group recently demonstrated that maternal high-fat diet (HFD) consumption is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, increased apoptosis, and changes in gluconeogenic gene expression and chromatin structure in fetal nonhuman primate (NHP) liver. However, little is known about the long-term effects that a HFD has on hepatic nervous system development in offspring, a system that plays an important role in regulating hepatic metabolism. Utilizing immunohistochemistry and Real-Time PCR, we quantified sympathetic nerve fiber density, apoptosis, inflammation, and other autonomic components in the livers of fetal and one-year old Japanese macaques chronically exposed to a HFD. We found that HFD exposure in-utero and throughout the postnatal period (HFD/HFD), when compared to animals receiving a CTR diet for the same developmental period (CTR/CTR), is associated with a 1.7 fold decrease in periportal sympathetic innervation, a 5 fold decrease in parenchymal sympathetic innervation, and a 2.5 fold increase in hepatic apoptosis in the livers of one-year old male animals. Additionally, we observed an increase in hepatic inflammation and a decrease in a key component of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in one-year old HFD/HFD offspring. Taken together, these findings reinforce the impact that continuous exposure to a HFD has in the development of long-term hepatic pathologies in offspring and highlights a potential neuroanatomical basis for hepatic metabolic dysfunction.
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- Wilmon F. Grant
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
- Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
- Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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The vertebrate heart is innervated by the sympathetic and parasympathetic components of the peripheral autonomic nervous system, which regulates its contractile rate and force. Understanding the mechanisms that control sympathetic neuronal growth, differentiation, and innervation of the heart may provide insight into the etiology of cardiac arrhythmogenesis. This review provides an overview of the cell signaling pathways and transcriptional effectors that regulate both the noradrenergic gene program during sympathetic neurogenesis and regional nerve density during cardiac innervation. Recent studies exploring transcriptional regulation of the bHLH transcription factor Hand1 in developing sympathetic neurons are explored, and how the Hand1 sympathetic neuron-specific cis-regulatory element may be used further to assess the contribution of altered sympathetic innervation to human cardiac disease is discussed.
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Bodmer D, Ascaño M, Kuruvilla R. Isoform-specific dephosphorylation of dynamin1 by calcineurin couples neurotrophin receptor endocytosis to axonal growth. Neuron 2011; 70:1085-99. [PMID: 21689596 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Endocytic events are critical for neuronal survival in response to target-derived neurotrophic cues, but whether local axon growth is mediated by endocytosis-dependent signaling mechanisms remains unclear. Here, we report that Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) promotes endocytosis of its TrkA receptors and axon growth by calcineurin-mediated dephosphorylation of the endocytic GTPase dynamin1. Conditional deletion of calcineurin in sympathetic neurons disrupts NGF-dependent innervation of peripheral target tissues. Calcineurin signaling is required locally in sympathetic axons to support NGF-mediated growth in a manner independent of transcription. We show that calcineurin associates with dynamin1 via a PxIxIT interaction motif found only in specific dynamin1 splice variants. PxIxIT-containing dynamin1 isoforms colocalize with surface TrkA receptors, and their phosphoregulation is selectively required for NGF-dependent TrkA internalization and axon growth in sympathetic neurons. Thus, NGF-dependent phosphoregulation of dynamin1 is a critical event coordinating neurotrophin receptor endocytosis and axonal growth.
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- Daniel Bodmer
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Lee TM, Chen CC, Hsu YJ. Differential effects of NADPH oxidase and xanthine oxidase inhibition on sympathetic reinnervation in postinfarct rat hearts. Free Radic Biol Med 2011; 50:1461-70. [PMID: 21295134 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2010] [Revised: 01/11/2011] [Accepted: 01/25/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Superoxide has been shown to play a major role in ventricular remodeling and arrhythmias after myocardial infarction. However, the source of increased myocardial superoxide production and the role of superoxide in sympathetic innervation remain to be further characterized. Male Wistar rats, after coronary artery ligation, were randomized to vehicle, allopurinol, or apocynin for 4weeks. To determine the role of peroxynitrite in sympathetic reinnervation, we also used 3-morpholinosydnonimine (a peroxynitrite generator). The postinfarction period was associated with increased oxidative stress, as measured by myocardial superoxide, nitrotyrosine, xanthine oxidase activity, NADPH oxidase activity, and dihydroethidium fluorescent staining. Measurement of myocardial norepinephrine levels revealed a significant elevation in vehicle-treated infarcted rats compared with sham. Sympathetic hyperinnervation was blunted after administration of allopurinol. Arrhythmic scores in the allopurinol-treated infarcted rats were significantly lower than those in vehicle. For similar levels of ventricular remodeling, apocynin had no beneficial effects on oxidative stress, sympathetic hyperinnervation, or arrhythmia vulnerability. Allopurinol-treated hearts had significantly decreased nerve growth factor expression, which was substantially increased after coadministration of 3-morpholinosydnonimine. These results indicate that xanthine oxidase but not NADPH oxidase largely mediates superoxide production after myocardial infarction. Xanthine oxidase inhibition ameliorates sympathetic innervation and arrhythmias possibly via inhibition of the peroxynitrite-mediated nerve growth factor pathway.
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- Tsung-Ming Lee
- Department of Medicine, Cardiology Section, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
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Lorentz CU, Alston EN, Belcik T, Lindner JR, Giraud GD, Habecker BA. Heterogeneous ventricular sympathetic innervation, altered beta-adrenergic receptor expression, and rhythm instability in mice lacking the p75 neurotrophin receptor. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 298:H1652-60. [PMID: 20190098 PMCID: PMC2886645 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01128.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2009] [Accepted: 02/23/2010] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Sympathetic nerves stimulate cardiac function through the release of norepinephrine and the activation of cardiac beta(1)-adrenergic receptors. The sympathetic innervation of the heart is sculpted during development by chemoattractive factors including nerve growth factor (NGF) and the chemorepulsive factor semaphorin 3a. NGF acts through the TrkA receptor and the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75(NTR)) in sympathetic neurons. NGF stimulates sympathetic axon extension into the heart through TrkA, but p75(NTR) modulates multiple coreceptors that can either stimulate or inhibit axon outgrowth. In mice lacking p75(NTR), the sympathetic innervation density in target tissues ranges from denervation to hyperinnervation. Recent studies have revealed significant changes in the sympathetic innervation density of p75NTR-deficient (p75(NTR-/-)) atria between early postnatal development and adulthood. We examined the innervation of adult p75(NTR-/-) ventricles and discovered that the subendocardium of the p75(NTR-/-) left ventricle was essentially devoid of sympathetic nerve fibers, whereas the innervation density of the subepicardium was normal. This phenotype is similar to that seen in mice overexpressing semaphorin 3a, and we found that sympathetic axons lacking p75(NTR) are more sensitive to semaphorin 3a in vitro than control neurons. The lack of subendocardial innervation was associated with decreased dP/dt, altered cardiac beta(1)-adrenergic receptor expression and sensitivity, and a significant increase in spontaneous ventricular arrhythmias. The lack of p75(NTR) also resulted in increased tyrosine hydroxylase content in cardiac sympathetic neurons and elevated norepinephrine in the right ventricle, where innervation density was normal.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/metabolism
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Heart Ventricles/innervation
- Heart Ventricles/metabolism
- Heart Ventricles/physiopathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Norepinephrine/metabolism
- Receptor, trkA/metabolism
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1/metabolism
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/metabolism
- Semaphorin-3A/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Sympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Ventricular Dysfunction/metabolism
- Ventricular Dysfunction/physiopathology
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- Christina U Lorentz
- Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Science Univ., 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Mochalov SV, Kalenchuk VU, Gaĭnullina DK, Vorotnikov AV, Tarasova OS. [The contribution of protein kinase C and Rho-kinase to the control of the receptor-dependent artery contraction decreases with age independently of sympathetic innervation]. Biofizika 2008; 53:1102-1108. [PMID: 19137699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The age-related dynamics of the activity of signalling pathways coupled to alpha1-adrenergic receptors and their dependence on the sympathetic innervation of arterial smooth muscle have been studied. The effects of the protein kinase C inhibitor (GF109203X, 10(-6) M) and the Rho-kinase inhibitor (Y27632, 10(-5) M) on the isometric contraction of the rat saphenous artery, induced by the alpha1-adrenoceptor agonist methoxamine, were examined. It was shown that the sensitivity to methoxamine of arteries from 2-week-old rats that are partially innervated was reduced as compared to adults, but the effects of both inhibitors were more prominent. The denervation induced by the excision of sympathetic ganglia increased the arterial sensitivity to methoxamine but was not accompanied by changes in sensitivity to the inhibitors. Therefore, the postnatal development of the arterial smooth muscle is characterized by a decrease in the contribution of protein kinase C and Rho-kinase to the regulation of contraction; however, these changes do not correlate with changes in the sensitivity of arteries to methoxamine and development of sympathetic innervation.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenergic alpha-1 Receptor Agonists
- Age Factors
- Amides/pharmacology
- Animals
- Arteries/growth & development
- Arteries/innervation
- Arteries/physiology
- Ganglionectomy
- Indoles/pharmacology
- Isometric Contraction
- Maleimides/pharmacology
- Methoxamine/pharmacology
- Muscle, Skeletal/blood supply
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/growth & development
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/innervation
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiology
- Protein Kinase C/antagonists & inhibitors
- Protein Kinase C/physiology
- Pyridines/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1/physiology
- Sympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Sympathetic Nervous System/physiology
- rho-Associated Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- rho-Associated Kinases/physiology
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Blood vessels with apparently similar structures show remarkable functional heterogeneity. Differences exist in the nature and extent of their innervation, synaptic architecture, receptor characteristics, excitation coupling systems, capacity for intrinsic tone, contractility, elasticity and calcium-pool dependence, to mention only a few variables. The underlying basis of these differences is unknown. Similarity between the distribution of particular features in the vascular bed and the early patterns of embryological development suggest that some specific functional characteristics are determined during the process of gastrulation, if not before. Examples are given of receptor characteristics and tissue sensitivity that seem to reflect the different mesenchymal origins of particular vessels. Studies on vessels from immature fetal lambs confirm that individuality of specific vessels is established early. Interruption of sympathetic nerve traffic influences the function of vascular smooth muscle cells in a complex manner which is expressed differently at different ages. If the findings of experiments on the ear artery of the rabbit reveal a general principle seen in the circulation, then the level of sympathetic nerve traffic during growth would be expected to influence both qualitatively and quantitatively the structure and reactivity of the adult circulation. By this effect the sympathetic nervous system exerts a long-term influence on blood pressure. The characteristics of a particular blood vessel in the adult depend on many factors such as the level of blood pressure and the amplitude of the pulse wave which are not discussed in this chapter. These studies show that the character of the mature vessels also reflects influences that occur during early development and growth.
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Moon JI, Birren SJ. Target-dependent inhibition of sympathetic neuron growth via modulation of a BMP signaling pathway. Dev Biol 2008; 315:404-17. [PMID: 18272145 PMCID: PMC2287379 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.12.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2007] [Revised: 12/19/2007] [Accepted: 12/29/2007] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Target-derived factors modulate many aspects of peripheral neuron development including neuronal growth, survival, and maturation. Less is known about how initial target contact regulates changes in gene expression associated with these developmental processes. One early consequence of contact between growing sympathetic neurons and their cardiac myocyte targets is the inhibition of neuronal outgrowth. Analysis of neuronal gene expression following this contact revealed coordinate regulation of a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-dependent growth pathway in which basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors and downstream neurofilament expression contribute to the growth dynamics of developing sympathetic neurons. BMP2 had dose-dependent growth-promoting effects on sympathetic neurons cultured in the absence, but not the presence, of myocyte targets, suggesting that target contact alters neuronal responses to BMP signaling. Target contact also induced the expression of matrix Gla protein (MGP), a regulator of BMP function in the vascular system. Increased MGP expression inhibited BMP-dependent neuronal growth and MGP expression increased in sympathetic neurons during the period of target contact in vivo. These experiments establish MGP as a novel regulator of BMP function in the nervous system, and define developmental transitions in BMP responses during sympathetic development.
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- Jung-Il Moon
- Department of Biology, National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, USA
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A substantial fraction of the noradrenergic innervation targeting the mammalian ovary is provided by neurons of the celiac ganglion. Although studies in the rat have shown that noradrenergic nerves reach the ovary near the time of birth, it is unknown how the functional capacity of this innervation unfolds during postnatal ovarian development. To address this issue, we assessed the ability of the developing ovary to incorporate and release (3)H-norepinephrine. Incorporation of (3)H-norepinephrine was low during the first 3 wk of postnatal life, but pharmacological inhibition of norepinephrine (NE) neuronal uptake with cocaine showed that an intact transport mechanism for NE into nerve terminals is already in place by the first week after birth. Consistent with this functional assessment, the mRNA encoding the NE transporter was also expressed in the celiac ganglion at this time. During neonatal-infantile development [postnatal (PN) d 5-20], the spontaneous, vesicle-independent outflow of recently taken up NE was high, but the NE output in response to K(+)-induced depolarization was low. After PN d 20, spontaneous outflow decreased and the response to K(+) increased markedly, reaching maximal values by the time of puberty. Tyramine-mediated displacement of NE stored in vesicles, which displace vesicular NE, showed that vesicle-dependent NE storage becomes functional by PN d 12 and that vesicular release increases during the juvenile-peripubertal phases of sexual development. These results indicate that vesicular release of NE from ovarian noradrenergic nerves begins to operate by the third week of postnatal life, becoming fully functional near the time of puberty.
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- Manuel Ricu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, P.O. Box 233, Santiago-1 838-0492, Chile
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The aim of this study was to investigate age-related morphological and neurochemical changes in the human superior cervical ganglion (SCG). Thirty-seven superior sympathetic human cervical ganglia of young, adult, and aged subjects were examined using morphometric analysis, biotin-streptavidin immunohistochemistry for detecting neurofilament, myelin protein, protein gene product 9.5, nerve growth factor receptor p75 in sympathetic neurons and nerve fibers. Morphometric parameters of neurons (area, long and short axis, shape factor of the neuron body, nucleus, cytoplasm, and lipofuscin) were investigated in every sixth serial section of the ganglion. Seven hundred neurons with clearly visible nuclei were measured in each studied group. The present study showed that human SCG of older subjects had larger areas of neuron body, cytoplasm and nucleus, a lower shape factor, an increased amount of lipofuscin, and a greater number of large-size neurons, as compared to SCG obtained from young subjects. Neuronal cytoskeletal alterations manifested themselves through a decreased number of neurofilament-positive neurons were detected in old human SCG. The amount of myelinated fibers decreased with age, although the amount of myelinated fibers in the young and the adult subjects varied from few to a moderate number. PGP 9.5 immunoreactivity varied in different age groups. A marked reduction of nerve growth factor receptor p75 in old human sympathetic neurons was detected. In conclusion, the findings of this study confirm age-related morphological changes in the human SCG. Structural neuronal changes may influence the deterioration of neuronal functional capacity, neuronal plasticity, and regenerative characteristics.
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- Gineta Liutkiene
- Institute of Anatomy, Kaunas University of Medicine, A. Mickeviciaus Street 9, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania.
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De Rogalski Landrot I, Roche F, Pichot V, Teyssier G, Gaspoz JM, Barthelemy JC, Patural H. Autonomic nervous system activity in premature and full-term infants from theoretical term to 7 years. Auton Neurosci 2007; 136:105-9. [PMID: 17556047 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2007.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2007] [Revised: 04/03/2007] [Accepted: 04/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The premature population reaching theoretical term suffers from a major deficit in autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, as can be seen from heart rate variability indices. Whether this autonomic function recovers in the long term is not yet established. Thus, we analyzed and compared ANS activity indices, at birth or at the time of the theoretical term, and at ages 2-3 and 6-7 years, in two populations: a group of 30 premature children and a reference group of 14 full-term age-matched newborns. Using Fourier Transform analysis, we studied 24-h ECG Holter recordings to establish heart rate variability indices: Ptot, VLF, LF, HF, ratio LF/HF, LFnu, HFnu. In the neonatal period, sympathetic and even more markedly, parasympathetic activities were very low in prematures compared to the reference full-term group. At ages 2-3 and 6-7 years, prematures had recovered and had similar ANS activity as the full-term group. These data suggest a fast ANS maturation in prematures during the two first years of life, with a higher speed of recovery for the parasympathetic arm. Furthermore, compared evolution shows a faster ANS maturation in premature. Potential mechanisms are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Age Factors
- Aging/physiology
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/etiology
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology
- Autonomic Nervous System/growth & development
- Autonomic Nervous System/physiopathology
- Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/etiology
- Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/physiopathology
- Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cohort Studies
- Electrocardiography
- Fourier Analysis
- Heart Rate/physiology
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Premature
- Infant, Premature, Diseases/etiology
- Infant, Premature, Diseases/physiopathology
- Parasympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Parasympathetic Nervous System/physiopathology
- Recovery of Function/physiology
- Sleep/physiology
- Sympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Sympathetic Nervous System/physiopathology
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Morikawa Y, D’Autréaux F, Gershon MD, Cserjesi P. Hand2 determines the noradrenergic phenotype in the mouse sympathetic nervous system. Dev Biol 2007; 307:114-26. [PMID: 17531968 PMCID: PMC1952239 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2007] [Revised: 04/11/2007] [Accepted: 04/23/2007] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor Hand2 has been shown to play a role in the development of the mammalian sympathetic nervous system (SNS); however, its precise role could not be uncovered because Hand2 is required for early embryonic survival. We therefore generated a conditional Hand2 knockout mouse line by excising Hand2 in Wnt1-Cre-expressing neural crest-derived cells. These mice die at 12.5 dpc with embryos showing severe cardiovascular and facial defects. Crest-derived cells, however, populate sites of SNS development and proliferate normally. Sympathetic precursors differentiate into neurons and express the pan-neuronal markers, beta3-tubulin (Tuj1) and Hu showing that Hand2 is not essential for SNS neuronal differentiation. To determine whether Hand2 regulates noradrenergic differentiation, the levels of the norepinephrine biosynthetic enzymes, tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) was examined. Both enzymes were dramatically reduced in mutant embryos suggesting that the primary role of Hand2 in the SNS is determination of neuronal phenotype. Loss of Hand2 did not affect the expression of other members of the transcriptional circuit regulating SNS development, including Phox2a/b, Mash1 and Gata2/3; however, Hand2 was required for Hand1 expression. Our data suggest that the major role of Hand2 during SNS development is to permit sympathetic neurons to acquire a catecholaminergic phenotype.
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- Yuka Morikawa
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, 2000 Percival Stern Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118. Ph. (504) 862-8081 Fax (504) 862-8081. E-mail:
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Vascular sympathetic innervation is an important determinant of blood pressure and blood flow. The mechanisms that determine vascular sympathetic innervation are not well understood. The present study tests the hypothesis that vascular-derived artemin promotes the development of sympathetic innervation to blood vessels by promoting sympathetic axon growth. RT-PCR and Western analyses indicate that artemin is expressed by cultured vascular smooth muscle and arteries, and artemin coreceptors, glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha3 and ret, are expressed by postganglionic sympathetic neurons. The effects of artemin on axon growth were assessed on explants of neonatal rat sympathetic ganglia. In the presence, but not in the absence, of nerve growth factor, exogenous artemin stimulated neurite growth. Femoral arteries (FA) from adult rats contain artemin, and these arteries stimulated sympathetic neurite growth. Growth in the presence of FA was 92.2 +/- 11.9 mm, and that in the absence of FA was 26.3 +/- 5.4 mm (P < 0.05). FA stimulation of axon growth was reduced by an antibody that neutralized the activity of artemin (P < 0.05). These data indicate that artemin is expressed in arteries, and its receptors are expressed and functional in the postganglionic sympathetic neurons that innervate them. This suggests that artemin may be a determinant of vascular sympathetic innervation.
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- Deborah H Damon
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Environmental exposures at crucial points in development permanently alter sympathoadrenal function in mammals. Both the sympathetic innervation of peripheral tissues and the responsiveness of sympathetic nerves and adrenal medulla to standard stimuli are susceptible to modification by exposures in early life. Several conditions studied in the laboratory, including environmental temperature, litter size and maternal nutrition, in addition to affecting sympathoadrenal function also produce larger, fatter offspring, raising the possibility that developmental programming of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) may contribute to acquisition of an obese phenotype. The specific changes noted in all three circumstances include evidence of an increase in sympathetic innervation in pancreas and retroperitoneal fat. By contrast, SNS development is impaired in experimental models of intrauterine growth retardation. Although the physiological implications of increased sympathetic innervation in pancreas and retroperitoneal fat are not fully understood, these changes seen in animals reared at cool temperatures, in small litters or by mothers fed refined carbohydrate diets likely reflect an early enhancement of the offspring's capacity to take up and store glucose. If so, the tendency of these animals to gain weight and accumulate fat may represent an adaptive response to 'over-nutrition' in early life.
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- J B Young
- Department of Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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Jacobs WB, Govoni G, Ho D, Atwal JK, Barnabe-Heider F, Keyes WM, Mills AA, Miller FD, Kaplan DR. p63 is an essential proapoptotic protein during neural development. Neuron 2006; 48:743-56. [PMID: 16337913 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2005] [Revised: 08/12/2005] [Accepted: 10/20/2005] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The p53 family member p63 is required for nonneural development, but has no known role in the nervous system. Here, we define an essential proapoptotic role for p63 during naturally occurring neuronal death. Sympathetic neurons express full-length TAp63 during the developmental death period, and TAp63 levels increase following NGF withdrawal. Overexpression of TAp63 causes neuronal apoptosis in the presence of NGF, while cultured p63-/- neurons are resistant to apoptosis following NGF withdrawal. TAp63 is also essential in vivo, since embryonic p63-/- mice display a deficit in naturally occurring sympathetic neuron death. While both TAp63 and p53 induce similar apoptotic signaling proteins and require BAX expression and function for their effects, TAp63 induces neuronal death in the absence of p53, but p53 requires coincident p63 expression for its proapoptotic actions. Thus, p63 is essential for developmental neuronal death, likely functioning both on its own, and as an obligate proapoptotic partner for p53.
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- W Bradley Jacobs
- Cancer Research and Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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Guidry G, Willison BD, Blakely RD, Landis SC, Habecker BA. Developmental expression of the high affinity choline transporter in cholinergic sympathetic neurons. Auton Neurosci 2005; 123:54-61. [PMID: 16278103 PMCID: PMC1407245 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2005.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2005] [Revised: 10/03/2005] [Accepted: 10/11/2005] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Choline uptake by the high affinity choline transporter (CHT) is the rate-limiting step in acetylcholine synthesis. Induction of CHT is therefore a critical step in cholinergic differentiation, and we examined the developmental expression of CHT in cholinergic sympathetic neurons that innervate rodent sweat glands. During postnatal development the earliest sympathetic axons in the rear footpads are noradrenergic, containing intense tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity and lacking CHT-immunoreactivity (CHT-IR). By postnatal day 7 (P7) in mouse, and P10 in rat, weak CHT-IR appeared in axons associated with the sweat gland anlagen. CHT staining intensity increased during the following weeks in conjunction with plexus arborization and gland maturation. The pattern of CHT-immunoreactivity (CHT-IR) in the sweat gland innervation was similar to staining for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter and vasoactive intestinal peptide. Immunoblots of tissue from sympathectomized rats confirmed that most of the CHT in footpad was contained in sympathetic neurons. Although CHT expression has been reported in noradrenergic sympathetic neurons of the superior cervical ganglion, these data indicate that in the sympathetic neurons projecting to sweat glands CHT is present at detectable levels only after association with the glands.
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- G Guidry
- Neural Development Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Using a splanchnic nerve-spinal cord preparation in vitro that could spontaneously generate sympathetic nerve discharge (SND), we investigated the roles of intraspinal GABAB receptors in the regulation of SND. Despite an age-dependent difference in sensitivity, bath applications of baclofen (Bac; GABAB-receptor agonist) consistently reduced SND in a concentration-dependent manner. The drug specificity of Bac in activation of GABAB receptors was verified by application of its antagonist saclofen (Sac) or CGP-46381 (CGP). Sac or CGP alone did not change SND. However, in the presence of Sac or CGP, the effects of Bac on SND inhibition were reversibly attenuated. The splanchnic sympathetic preganglionic neuron (SPN) was recorded by blind whole cell, patch-clamp techniques. We examined Bac effects on electrical membrane properties of SPNs. Applications of Bac reduced excitatory synaptic events, induced membrane hyperpolarizations, and inhibited SPN firing. In the presence of 12 mM Mg2+ or 0.5 μM TTX to block Ca2+- or action potential-dependent synaptic transmissions, applications of Bac induced an outward baseline current that reversed at −29 ± 6 mV. Because the K+ equilibrium potential in our experimental conditions was −100 mV, the Bac-induced currents could not simply be attributed to an alteration of K+ conductance. On the other hand, applications of Bac to Cs+-loaded SPNs reduced Cd2+-sensitive and high-voltage-activated inward currents, indicating an inhibition of voltage-gated Ca2+ currents. Our results suggest that the activation of intraspinal GABAB receptors suppresses SND via a mixture of ion events that may link to a change in Ca2+ conductance.
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- Yi-Wen Cheng
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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The precise coordination of the many events in nervous system development is absolutely critical for the correct establishment of functional circuits. The postganglionic sympathetic neuron has been an amenable model for studying peripheral nervous system formation. Factors that control several developmental events, including multiple stages of axon extension, neuron survival and death, dendritogenesis, synaptogenesis, and establishment of functional diversity, have been identified in this neuron type. This knowledge allows us to integrate the various intricate processes involved in the formation of a functional sympathetic nervous system and thereby create a paradigm for understanding neuronal development in general.
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- Natalia O Glebova
- Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Lee S, Nakamura E, Yang H, Wei W, Linggi MS, Sajan MP, Farese RV, Freeman RS, Carter BD, Kaelin WG, Schlisio S. Neuronal apoptosis linked to EglN3 prolyl hydroxylase and familial pheochromocytoma genes: developmental culling and cancer. Cancer Cell 2005. [PMID: 16098468 DOI: 10.1016/].ccr.2005.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Germline NF1, c-RET, SDH, and VHL mutations cause familial pheochromocytoma. Pheochromocytomas derive from sympathetic neuronal precursor cells. Many of these cells undergo c-Jun-dependent apoptosis during normal development as NGF becomes limiting. NF1 encodes a GAP for the NGF receptor TrkA, and NF1 mutations promote survival after NGF withdrawal. We found that pheochromocytoma-associated c-RET and VHL mutations lead to increased JunB, which blunts neuronal apoptosis after NGF withdrawal. We also found that the prolyl hydroxylase EglN3 acts downstream of c-Jun and is specifically required among the three EglN family members for apoptosis in this setting. Moreover, EglN3 proapoptotic activity requires SDH activity because EglN3 is feedback inhibited by succinate. These studies suggest that failure of developmental apoptosis plays a role in pheochromocytoma pathogenesis.
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- Sungwoo Lee
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Lee S, Nakamura E, Yang H, Wei W, Linggi MS, Sajan MP, Farese RV, Freeman RS, Carter BD, Kaelin WG, Schlisio S. Neuronal apoptosis linked to EglN3 prolyl hydroxylase and familial pheochromocytoma genes: developmental culling and cancer. Cancer Cell 2005; 8:155-67. [PMID: 16098468 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2005.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 396] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2005] [Revised: 04/29/2005] [Accepted: 06/07/2005] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Germline NF1, c-RET, SDH, and VHL mutations cause familial pheochromocytoma. Pheochromocytomas derive from sympathetic neuronal precursor cells. Many of these cells undergo c-Jun-dependent apoptosis during normal development as NGF becomes limiting. NF1 encodes a GAP for the NGF receptor TrkA, and NF1 mutations promote survival after NGF withdrawal. We found that pheochromocytoma-associated c-RET and VHL mutations lead to increased JunB, which blunts neuronal apoptosis after NGF withdrawal. We also found that the prolyl hydroxylase EglN3 acts downstream of c-Jun and is specifically required among the three EglN family members for apoptosis in this setting. Moreover, EglN3 proapoptotic activity requires SDH activity because EglN3 is feedback inhibited by succinate. These studies suggest that failure of developmental apoptosis plays a role in pheochromocytoma pathogenesis.
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- Sungwoo Lee
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Ji M, Andrisani OM. High-level activation of cyclic AMP signaling attenuates bone morphogenetic protein 2-induced sympathoadrenal lineage development and promotes melanogenesis in neural crest cultures. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:5134-45. [PMID: 15923629 PMCID: PMC1140587 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.12.5134-5145.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The intensity of cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling is a differential instructive signal in neural crest (NC) cell specification. By an unknown mechanism, sympathoadrenal lineage specification is suppressed by high-level activation of cAMP signaling. In NC cultures, high-level activation of cAMP signaling mediates protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent Rap1-B-Raf-ERK1/2 activation, leading to cytoplasmic accumulation of phospho-Smad1, thus terminating bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2)-induced sympathoadrenal cell development. Concurrently, cAMP signaling induces transcription of the melanocyte-determining transcription factor Mitf and melanogenesis. dnACREB and E1A inhibit Mitf expression and melanogenesis, supporting the notion that CREB activation is necessary for melanogenesis. However, constitutively active CREB(DIEDML) without PKA activation is insufficient for Mitf expression and melanogenesis, indicating PKA regulates additional aspects of Mitf transcription. Thus, high-level activation of cAMP signaling plays a dual role in NC cell differentiation: attenuation of BMP2-induced sympathoadrenal cell development and induction of melanogenesis. We conclude the intensity of activation of signal transduction cascades determines cell lineage segregation mechanisms.
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- Ming Ji
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, 625 Harrison Street, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2026, USA
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Jahed A, Kawaja MD. The influences of p75 neurotrophin receptor and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the sympathetic innervation of target tissues during murine postnatal development. Auton Neurosci 2005; 118:32-42. [PMID: 15795176 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2004.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2004] [Revised: 12/13/2004] [Accepted: 12/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Post-ganglionic sympathetic neurons express the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which together have been implicated in controlling the degree of efferent innervation of peripheral organs [Kohn, J., Aloyz, R.S., Toma, J.G., Haak-Frendscho, M., Miller, F.D. 1999. Functionally Antagonistic Interactions between the TrkA and p75 Neurotrophin Receptors Regulate Sympathetic Neuron Growth and Target Innervation. J. Neurosci. 19, 5393-5408]. To examine this concept further, we developed null mutant mice lacking both p75NTR and BDNF, and assessed whether the loss of this receptor-ligand interaction negatively impacts the degree of sympathetic innervation to various target tissues. Between postnatal days 10 and 14, hearts, urinary bladders, kidneys, and submandibular salivary glands were isolated from p75(-/-)/BDNF-/-, p75-/-, BDNF-/-, and wild type siblings. Sympathetic axons were visualized using tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemistry, and TH protein levels were quantified by immunoblotting. Concerning the sympathetic innervation of the heart, urinary bladder and kidneys, no differences were seen in single and double null mutant mice, as compared with their wild type siblings. Sympathetic innervation of the submandibular salivary gland was, however, increased in both p75-/- and p75(-/-)/BDNF-/- mice over control mice. These results reveal that an absence of p75NTR and/or BDNF expression does not perturb the degree of sympathetic innervation of many peripheral tissues during postnatal development, and that a lack of p75NTR expression may actually enhance the density of these efferent fibers in other target tissues, such as the salivary glands.
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- Ali Jahed
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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Kuruvilla R, Zweifel LS, Glebova NO, Lonze BE, Valdez G, Ye H, Ginty DD. A Neurotrophin Signaling Cascade Coordinates Sympathetic Neuron Development through Differential Control of TrkA Trafficking and Retrograde Signaling. Cell 2004; 118:243-55. [PMID: 15260993 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2003] [Revised: 05/21/2004] [Accepted: 06/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A fundamental question in developmental biology is how a limited number of growth factors and their cognate receptors coordinate the formation of tissues and organs endowed with enormous morphological complexity. We report that the related neurotrophins NGF and NT-3, acting through a common receptor, TrkA, are required for sequential stages of sympathetic axon growth and, thus, innervation of target fields. Yet, while NGF supports TrkA internalization and retrograde signaling from distal axons to cell bodies to promote neuronal survival, NT-3 cannot. Interestingly, final target-derived NGF promotes expression of the p75 neurotrophin receptor, in turn causing a reduction in the sensitivity of axons to intermediate target-derived NT-3. We propose that a hierarchical neurotrophin signaling cascade coordinates sequential stages of sympathetic axon growth, innervation of targets, and survival in a manner dependent on the differential control of TrkA internalization, trafficking, and retrograde axonal signaling.
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- Rejji Kuruvilla
- Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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The neurotrophin nerve growth factor (NGF) plays a crucial role in the development of the sympathetic nervous system. In addition to being required for sympathetic neuron survival in vivo and in vitro, NGF has been shown to mediate axon growth in vitro. The role of NGF in sympathetic axon growth in vivo, however, is not clear because of its requirement for survival. This requirement can be circumvented by a concomitant deletion of Bax, a pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member, thus allowing an examination of the role of neurotrophins in axon growth independently of their function in cell survival. Here, we analyzed peripheral sympathetic target organ innervation in mice deficient for both NGF and Bax. In neonatal NGF-/-; Bax-/- mice, sympathetic target innervation was absent in certain organs (such as salivary glands), greatly reduced in others (such as heart), somewhat diminished in a few (such as stomach and kidneys), but not significantly different from control in some (such as trachea). At embryonic day 16.5, peripheral target sympathetic innervation was also reduced in NGF-/-; Bax-/- mice, with analogous variability for different organs. Interestingly, in some organs such as the spleen the precise location at which sympathetic axons become NGF-dependent for growth was evident. We thus show that NGF is required for complete peripheral innervation of both paravertebral and prevertebral sympathetic ganglia targets in vivo independently of its requirement for cell survival. Remarkably, target organs vary widely in their individual NGF requirements for sympathetic innervation.
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- Natalia O Glebova
- Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Swenson SJ, Speth RC, Porter JP. Effect of a perinatal high-salt diet on blood pressure control mechanisms in young Sprague-Dawley rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 286:R764-70. [PMID: 14715490 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00492.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the present investigation we sought to determine if a perinatal high-salt treatment affects blood pressure at an early age (30 days), and if so, to determine the mechanisms responsible for the hypertension. Pregnant dams were given an 8% NaCl diet [high-salt (HS) rats] during the final one-third of gestation and throughout the suckling period. After weaning, the pups continued to receive the high-salt diet until testing at age 30 days. Control groups received a normal-salt diet (NS rats). In HS rats, mean arterial pressure (MAP) was significantly increased (110 ± 5 vs. 96 ± 3 mmHg) compared with NS rats. Blockade of brain AT1 receptors with intracerebroventricular losartan decreased MAP in HS but not NS rats. Blockade of α-adrenergic receptors with intravenous phentolamine or ganglionic transmission with intravenous chlorisondamine produced a greater decrease in MAP in HS rats. Baroreflex control of heart rate was assessed using a four-parameter logistics function. The mid-range MAP (p3) was significantly increased in the HS rats. No other baroreflex parameters were affected. Specific binding of 125I-[Sar1,Ile8]ANG II to AT1 receptors was increased in the subfornical organ (SFO) of the HS rats. Expression of AT1a receptor mRNA was greater in both SFO and PVN of the HS rats. These data suggest that even at an early age, Sprague-Dawley rats treated with a perinatal high-salt diet are hypertensive. The elevated blood pressure appears to be caused by increased sympathetic nervous activity, resulting, in part, from increased brain AT1 receptor activation.
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- Steven J Swenson
- Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Rodney A Stewart
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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While fasting suppresses sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity in most peripheral tissues, the response of sympathetic nerves in white adipose tissue (WAT) is reportedly stimulatory. To confirm this finding and to determine if the fasting response in WAT is susceptible to developmental modification, SNS activity was compared in fed and fasted animals using techniques of [3H]norepinephrine ([3H]NE) turnover. Studies were performed in commercially reared 7-week-old male rats, in male rats reared in the local vivarium, and in male rats reared until 30 days of age at either 18 degrees C or 30 degrees C. In commercially reared animals, [3H]NE turnover was elevated in epididymal fat during the second day of fasting, a response not seen during the preceding or succeeding day of fasting. On the other hand, in rats reared from birth in the local vivarium a 1-day fast led to suppression of SNS activity in epididymal fat. In rats reared at 18 degrees C for the first 30 days of life, fasting suppressed SNS activity in retroperitoneal fat in contrast to the absence of this response noted in 30 degrees C-reared rats. These studies demonstrate that sympathetic responses in WAT to fasting in young adult, male rats are susceptible to modification by the environmental conditions present during the first month of life.
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- James B Young
- Department of Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611-3008, USA
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Pak HN, Qayyum M, Kim DT, Hamabe A, Miyauchi Y, Lill MC, Frantzen M, Takizawa K, Chen LS, Fishbein MC, Sharifi BG, Chen PS, Makkar R. Mesenchymal stem cell injection induces cardiac nerve sprouting and increased tenascin expression in a Swine model of myocardial infarction. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2003; 14:841-8. [PMID: 12890047 DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03124.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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UNLABELLED Stem Cell Induces Cardiac Nerve Sprouting. INTRODUCTION Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation is a promising technique to improve cardiac function. Whether MSC can increase cardiac nerve density and contribute to the improved cardiac function is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS Anterior wall myocardial infarction was created in 16 swine. One month later, 6 swine were given MSC and fresh bone marrow (BM) into infarcted myocardium (MSC group). Four swine were given fresh BM only (BM group), and 6 swine were given culture media (MI-only group). The swine were sacrificed 95.8 +/- 3.5 days after MI. Six normal swine were used as control. Immunocytochemical staining was performed using antibodies against growth-associated protein 43 (GAP43), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and three subtypes of tenascin (R, C, and X). Five fields per slide were counted for nerve density. The results show the following. (1). There were more GAP43-positive nerves in the MSC group than in the BM, MI-only, or Control group (P < 0.0001). TH staining showed higher nerve densities in the MSC group than in the MI-only (P < 0.01) or Control group (P < 0.0001) in the atria. (2). There were more sympathetic (TH-positive) nerves in myocardium distant from infarct than in the peri-infarct area (P < 0.05). (3). Optical intensity and color analyses showed significantly higher tenascin R and tenascin C expression in the MSC and BM groups than in the MI-only or Control group (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION MSC injected with BM into swine infarct results in overexpression of cardiac tenascin, increased the magnitude of cardiac nerve sprouting in both atria and ventricles, and increased the magnitude of atrial sympathetic hyperinnervation 2 months after injection.
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- Hui-Nam Pak
- Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Mikhaĭlenko VA, Vataeva LA, Makukhina GV. [Sex differences in the reactivity of the sympathoadrenal system during ontogenesis of rats]. Zh Evol Biokhim Fiziol 2003; 39:374-8. [PMID: 14520903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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Electrical activity of the sympathetic vertebral nerve (VN) was studied in kittens (0-180 days) using frequency domain analyzes. Rhythmical discharges in the studied nerve were observed from the moment of birth and correlated with cardiac (1.2-3 Hz) and respiratory frequency (0.15-0.7 Hz). Amplitude of discharges was minimal in newborn kittens and increased during ontogenesis. Relative spectral power was maximal at cardiac and respiratory frequencies in animals in all age groups. '10-Hz discharges' (8-12 Hz band) in the VN oscillations appeared only in animals older than 20 days of life. In accordance to their sympathetic nerve discharge, kittens become mature at 2 month of their life.
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- Petr M Masliukov
- Department of Normal Physiology and Biophysics, Yaroslavl State Medical Academy, Revoliucionnaya 5, Yaroslavl 150000, Russia.
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The generation of specific neuronal subtypes from neural stem cells is one of the dominating themes in developmental neurobiology. In the last years, key signaling pathways have been identified that are involved in the generic control of neurogenesis. In addition, genes were found that selectively control the specification and differentiation of specific types of neurons. The development of sympathetic neurons from neural crest-derived precursors has been investigated over the years in great detail at molecular and cellular levels and thus represents one of the best understood models of neuron generation. The present review summarizes results demonstrating the role of the extrinsic signaling molecules, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and of their downstream transcription factors in the generation and differentiation of noradrenergic sympathetic neurons. How these signaling pathways are modified to generate other nonnoradrenergic neuron types of the autonomic nervous system is discussed in the context of recent studies of the development of parasympathetic neurons. Finally, evidence is reviewed that implicates BMPs at later stages of sympathetic neuron differentiation, in the control of dendrite formation.
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- Hermann Rohrer
- Department of Neurochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Skin conductance changes (SCC) reflect the activity in the sympathetic postganglionic cholinergic fibers, which innervate the sweat glands located in the palm of the hand and the sole of the foot. The purpose of this study was to measure the changes in the number of waves per second, the wave amplitude, and the mean skin conductance level during the 1st year of life. During SCC elicited by an auditory stimulus we measured the percentage of infants that responded, the amplitude, latency and recovery times, and any habituation pattern. Thirty-nine full-born, healthy infants were investigated during their 1st and 3rd days of life, at 3 and 10 wk of life, and at 6 and 12 mo of life. The mean skin conductance level (p < 0.001), the number of waves with an amplitude threshold higher than 0.5 and 1.0 micro siemens (p < 0.001), and the amplitude of the waves (p < 0.001) all increased during the first 10 wk of life. The percentage that responded to stimuli increased from 8% to 50%, and the amplitude of the response increased during the first 10 wk of life (p < 0.001). The level of arousal influenced the mean skin conductance level, the number of waves per second, and the amplitude of the waves during the 1st year of life. In conclusion, these results indicate that the part of the sympathetic nervous system associated with arousal develops during the first 10 wk of life.
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- Knut G Hernes
- Department of Paediatric Research, National Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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Animals reared at 18 degrees C exhibit enhanced innervation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) and greater cold tolerance as adults, yet gain more weight when fed an enriched diet compared with rats reared at 30 degrees C. To explore this paradox, sympathoadrenal activity was examined using techniques of [(3)H]norepinephrine ([(3)H]NE) turnover and urinary catecholamine excretion in male and female rats reared until 2 mo of age at 18 or 30 degrees C. Gene expression in BAT was also analyzed for several sympathetically related proteins. Although [(3)H]NE turnover in heart did not differ between groups, [(3)H]NE turnover in BAT was consistently elevated in the 18 degrees C-reared animals, even 2 mo after removal from the cool environment. Gene expression for uncoupling proteins 1 and 3, GLUT-4, leptin, and the alpha(1A)-adrenergic receptor was more abundant in BAT and the increase in epinephrine excretion with fasting suppressed in 18 degrees C-reared animals. These studies demonstrate that obesity consequent to exposure to 18 degrees C in early life occurs despite tonic elevation of sympathetic input to BAT. Diminished adrenal epinephrine responsiveness to fasting may play a contributory role.
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- James B Young
- Department of Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611-3008, USA.
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Targeted disruption of murine beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-AR) genes has helped to clarify the role of specific beta-AR subtypes in regulating cardiovascular development and function. In the mouse, the beta1-AR is primarily responsible for sympathetic regulation of both cardiac chronotropy and inotropy. In contrast, all three beta-ARs play a role in regulating peripheral vascular tone. The impact of ablation of both beta1- and beta2-ARs on cardiac development and on resting cardiovascular and metabolic parameters is remarkably minimal. However, exercise stress reveals additional important contributions of beta1- and beta2-ARs to cardiovascular performance.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
- Cardiovascular System/growth & development
- Cardiovascular System/metabolism
- Cardiovascular System/physiopathology
- Exercise/physiology
- Humans
- Mice
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/growth & development
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiopathology
- Myocardial Contraction/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/physiology
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1/deficiency
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2/deficiency
- Sympathetic Nervous System/growth & development
- Sympathetic Nervous System/metabolism
- Sympathetic Nervous System/physiopathology
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- Daniel Bernstein
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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Bengel FM, Ueberfuhr P, Hesse T, Schiepel N, Ziegler SI, Scholz S, Nekolla SG, Reichart B, Schwaiger M. Clinical determinants of ventricular sympathetic reinnervation after orthotopic heart transplantation. Circulation 2002; 106:831-5. [PMID: 12176956 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000025631.68522.9d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND It has been demonstrated that ventricular sympathetic reinnervation after cardiac transplantation improves exercise performance. The extent of reinnervation increases with time but is variable. Little is known about other influencing factors. METHODS AND RESULTS Seventy-seven nonrejecting transplant recipients were cross-sectionally studied by PET with the catecholamine analogue C-11 hydroxyephedrine at 4.8+/-3.5 years after transplantation. Results were compared with history-derived parameters related to recipient's clinical course before, during, and after surgery; donor characteristics; and immunogenetics. Partial reinnervation was observed in 52 patients (extent, 21+/-16% of left ventricle). Complete denervation was found in 25 patients at various times after transplantation. Reinnervation extent correlated with time after surgery (r=0.387; P<0.001) but also inversely with donor age (r=-0.309, P=0.006) and recipient age (r=-0.243, P=0.032). Maximal hydroxyephedrine retention correlated inversely with frequency of rejection episodes (r=-0.267, P=0.019), was reduced when aortic complications occurred perioperatively (9 patients), and correlated inversely with aortic cross-clamp time (r=-0.331, P=0.006). Other parameters were not associated with reinnervation. Patients were surveyed for clinical complications over >12 months after PET (until 7.3+/-4.2 years after transplantation), but significant effects of reinnervation on outcome were not observed. CONCLUSIONS The present data suggest that sympathetic reinnervation after cardiac transplantation is not simply a function of time. Reinnervation is more likely with young age, fast and uncomplicated surgery, and low rejection frequency. Despite few effects on prognosis in otherwise healthy recipients, improved understanding of clinical determinants may contribute to enhance allograft reinnervation and thereby augment exercise capacity in the future.
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Affiliation(s)
- Frank M Bengel
- Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität, Munich, Germany.
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Rat, monkey, and human infants have evolved to expect certain patterns of care. Spontaneous or experimental deviations of care from the norm result in infant stress responses. Hyperactivity of immature stress systems such as the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the limbic-sympatho-adrenomedullary axis can alter their subsequent reactivity across the life span.
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- Christopher R Pryce
- Behavioral Neurobiology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, CH-8603 Zurich, Switzerland
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