DIFFERENTIATION OF MUSCLE-FIBER TYPES IN ANEUROGENIC BRACHIAL MUSCLES OF THE CHICK-EMBRYO
DIFFERENTIATION OF MUSCLE-FIBER TYPES IN ANEUROGENIC BRACHIAL MUSCLES OF THE CHICK-EMBRYO
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1402240108
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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BRIERLEY, J
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BUTLER, J;COSMOS, E;BRIERLEY, J
Cross-reinnervation studies performed ex ovo with newly hatched chicks demonstrate that peripheral motor neruons control the phenotypic characteristics of avian muscles. Whether nerves play a similar role during the initial expression of muscle fiber types was studied. Differentiation of specific fiber types occurs during the 1st wk of embryogenesis, coincidently with the penetration of nerves within muscle masses. Peripheral nerves may be associated with the initial differentiation of fiber types. Anterior limb buds of the chick embryo were rendered aneurogenic by deletion of the brachial segment of the neural tube. To ensure a completely aneurogenic environment for developing brachial muscles, surgery was performed at day [d] 2 in ovo before the exit of ventral root fibers. Experimental and control embryos from stage (st) 25 (4.5 d) through st 45 (19 d) were analyzed histochemically by a Ag-cholinesterase reaction to detect nerves and by the myosin ATPase reaction, following alkali and acid preincubation, to determine the fiber type compositon of the muscles. The total volume of aneurogenic and control muscles was compared. The characteristic myosin ATPase profiles of individual aneurogenic and innervated (control) muscles were identical throughout the entire period analyzed. Evidently, these enzymic proifles are endogenously expressed and are not under neuronal control during early embryogenesis. The entire sequence of events from the migration of myogenic cells to the anterior limb bud through the division of the primary muscle masses to form individual brachial muscles proceeded on schedule in the absence of nerves. Since the growth of aneurogenic muscles was impaired, during embryogenesis, peripheral motor nerves are initially necessary for the proper growth of muscles and, ultimately, for their survival. They are not involved with the initial formation or initial differentiation of individual brachial muscles.