AXON INITIATION BY CILIARY NEURONS IN CULTURE
AXON INITIATION BY CILIARY NEURONS IN CULTURE
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(78)90178-1
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
COLLINS, F
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作者:
COLLINS, F
A nerve culture system for the study of axon initiation is described. A population of individual chick embryo ciliary neurons, free from contact with other cells and attached to a polyornithine-coated culture dish, is exposed to heart cell-conditioned medium (HCM). Within 30 min after the addition of HCM the majority of neurons have formed growth cones and by 90 min more than 80% of the neurons bear at least 1 axon longer than 15 .mu.m. Before the addition of HCM, ciliary neurons generate membrane ruffles and extend filopodia around the entire periphery of the rounded cell body. Axon initiation, following addition of HCM, consists of 2 distinctive changes in the cell surface: organization of the randomly distributed surface movements into localized highly active growth cones, which then form axons; and the cessation of surface movements elsewhere on the cell periphery. Heart cell-conditioned medium may induce these changes by increasing the adhesion between parts of the nerve cell surface and the substratum.