scholarly journals Chicken HOXA3 Gene: Its Expression Pattern and Role in Branchial Nerve Precursor Cell Migration

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natsuko Watari-Goshima ◽  
Osamu Chisaka
Author(s):  
Anne Schmitz ◽  
Silke Dempewolf ◽  
Saime Tan ◽  
Gerd Bicker ◽  
Michael Stern

AbstractPesticide exposure during in utero and early postnatal development can cause a wide range of neurological defects. However, relatively few insecticides have been recognized as developmental neurotoxicants, so far. Recently, discovery of the insecticide, fipronil, in chicken eggs has raised public concern. The status of fipronil as a potential developmental neurotoxicant is still under debate. Whereas several in vivo and in vitro studies suggest specific toxicity, other in vitro studies could not confirm this concern. Here, we tested fipronil and its main metabolic product, fipronil sulfone both at concentrations between 1.98 and 62.5 µM, alongside with the established developmental neurotoxicant, rotenone (0.004–10 µM) in vitro on the human neuronal precursor cell line NT2. We found that rotenone impaired all three tested DNT endpoints, neurite outgrowth, neuronal differentiation, and precursor cell migration in a dose-dependent manner and clearly separable from general cytotoxicity in the nanomolar range. Fipronil and fipronil sulfone specifically inhibited cell migration and neuronal differentiation, but not neurite outgrowth in the micromolar range. The rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632 counteracted inhibition of migration for all three compounds (EC50 between 12 and 50 µM). The antioxidant, n-acetyl cysteine, could ameliorate the inhibitory effects of fipronil on all three tested endpoints (EC 50 between 84 and 164 µM), indicating the involvement of oxidative stress. Fipronil sulfone had a stronger effect than fipronil, confirming the importance to test metabolic products alongside original pesticides. We conclude that in vitro fipronil and fipronil sulfone display specific developmental neurotoxicity on developing human model neurons.


Stem Cells ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Yuen Leong ◽  
Clare H. Faux ◽  
Alisa Turbic ◽  
Kirsty J. Dixon ◽  
Ann M. Turnley

2013 ◽  
Vol 183 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenea M. Bin ◽  
Sathyanath Rajasekharan ◽  
Tanja Kuhlmann ◽  
Ilana Hanes ◽  
Nathalie Marcal ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajime Fukui ◽  
Kenta Terai ◽  
Hiroyuki Nakajima ◽  
Ayano Chiba ◽  
Shigetomo Fukuhara ◽  
...  

Glia ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Milner ◽  
Helen J. Anderson ◽  
Rebecca F. Rippon ◽  
Jennifer S. McKay ◽  
Robin J.M. Franklin ◽  
...  

Development ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 138 (22) ◽  
pp. 4991-5001 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Di Lullo ◽  
C. Haton ◽  
C. Le Poupon ◽  
M. Volovitch ◽  
A. Joliot ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 1295 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Tanvig ◽  
Morten Blaabjerg ◽  
Rikke K. Andersen ◽  
Ana Villa ◽  
Ann Mari Rosager ◽  
...  

Development ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 128 (23) ◽  
pp. 4669-4680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Swartz ◽  
Johann Eberhart ◽  
Elena B. Pasquale ◽  
Catherine E. Krull

Limb muscles derive from muscle precursor cells that lie initially in the lateral portion of the somitic dermomyotome and subsequently migrate to their target limb regions, where muscle-specific gene transcription is initiated. Although several molecules that control the generation and delamination of muscle precursor cells have been identified, little is known about the mechanisms that guide muscle precursor cell migration in the limb. We have examined the distribution of members of the Eph family during muscle precursor cell development. The EphA4 receptor tyrosine kinase and its ligand, ephrin-A5, are expressed by muscle precursor cells and forelimb mesoderm in unique spatiotemporal patterns during the period when muscle precursors delaminate from the dermomyotome and migrate into the limb. To test the function of EphA4/ephrin-A5 interactions in muscle precursor migration, we used targeted in ovo electroporation to express ephrin-A5 ectopically specifically in the presumptive limb mesoderm. In the presence of ectopic ephrin-A5, Pax7-positive muscle precursor cells are significantly reduced in number in the proximal limb, compared with controls, and congregate abnormally near the lateral dermomyotome. In stripe assays, isolated muscle precursor cells avoid substrate-bound ephrin-A5 and this avoidance is abolished by addition of soluble ephrin-A5. These data suggest that ephrin-A5 normally restricts migrating, EphA4-positive muscle precursor cells to their appropriate territories in the forelimb, disallowing entry into abnormal embryonic regions.


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