Perineuronal germinal cells in the rat cerebral cortex
Perineuronal germinal cells in the rat cerebral cortex
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DOI:
10.1007/s00795-006-0307-x
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发表时间:
2006-03-01
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Yamada, Hisao
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作者:
Kataoka, Yosky;Tamura, Yasuhisa;Yamada, Hisao
The generation and renewal of cells in the adult mammalian central nervous system maintains brain functions, including plasticity. Even in the cerebral cortex of adult mammals, glial cells are thought to be replaced with newly generated cells every 100 days. Recently, we demonstrated that this proliferation is stimulated by neural activity. However, whether any germinal areas exist in the cortical parenchyma is unknown. Here, we examined the proliferating cell dynamics in the cerebral cortex of adult rats using BrdU labeling and immunohistochemistry for NeuN and lamin B1. At 2h after a single injection of BrdU, more than 80% of BrdU-labeled cells were observed in the perineuronal territory in which the BrdU-labeled nuclei were located within 5 mu m from neuronal nuclei. The ratio of perineuronal cells to nonperineuronal cells in BrdU-labeled cells gradually decreased over the 2 weeks following BrdU injection. These observations indicate that numerous cortical cells proliferate in the perineuronal territory, the germinal soil, and that part of these newly generated cells migrate from the perineuronal territory into the surrounding areas during the 2 weeks following mitosis.