ELECTRON-MICROSCOPIC AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF GLIOGENESIS IN RAT OPTIC-NERVE .2. TIME OF ORIGIN
ELECTRON-MICROSCOPIC AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF GLIOGENESIS IN RAT OPTIC-NERVE .2. TIME OF ORIGIN
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.901690304
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
STOCKS, A
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作者:
SKOFF, RP;PRICE, DL;STOCKS, A
The time of origin for astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in rat optic nerve was studied by 3H-thymidine autoradiographic techniques similar to those used in dating the time of origin for neurons. Astrocytes were formed throughout late embryonic and all of postnatal development, while oligodendrocytes were generated only during the postnatal period. A few astroglia underwent their final cell division as early as 15.5 days of gestation, but most astrocytes were not generated until the 1st wk of postnatal development. Although the final cell division for more than half of the astrocytes took place before the end of the 1st postnatal week, fully mature, fibrous astrocytes were not observed in electron micrographs until after 14 days of age. This time lags implies that the differentiation of these early generated cells takes place gradually over a 2-3 wk interval. Oligodendroglia begin their final division a day or 2 before the onset of myelination (6-7 days postnatal), but the vast majority were produced during the period of myelinogenesis. After almost all of the axons were myelinated, oligodendrocytes were still being generated in small numbers. These late forming cells were generally less differentiated in appearance than those formed earlier; the degree of differentiation of oligodendrocytes may be dependent upon the number of axons available for myelination. As with astrocytes, oligodendrocytes showed a lag of about 2 wk from the time of final cell division until they transform into morphologically differentiated cells. In transverse sections of the optic nerve heavily labeled neuroglia were randomly distributed, indicating there were no temporal-radial gradients for the individual cell types. The factors controlling gliogenesis are apparently different from those governing neuronogenesis.