Afferent innervation shapes the dendritic branching pattern of the medial giant interneuron in grasshopper embryos raised in culture.
Afferent innervation shapes the dendritic branching pattern of the medial giant interneuron in grasshopper embryos raised in culture.
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传入神经支配塑造了培养中的蚱蜢胚胎内侧巨型中间神经元的树突分支模式。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(82)90195-6
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Goodman,CS
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作者:
Shankland,M;Bentley,D;Goodman,CS
In the adult grasshopper the Medial Giant Interneuron (MGI) receives synaptic input from the peripheral sensory neurons of the cercus. We prevented this innervation in grasshopper embryos by cutting off one or both cerci at a stage when the first sensory axons are just beginning to reach the central nervous system (CNS), and the MGI has not yet formed its mature branching pattern. Following this operation the embryos were raisedin vitrofor 3–9 days, and the MGI injected with the fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow to determine its morphology. The development of the deprived cells was then compared to that of the normal MGI (described in M. Shankland and C. S. Goodman, 1982,Develop. Biol.,92,483–500) and of cultured, but unoperated, controls to ascertain whether these presynaptic axons influence the embryonic growth and branching of the MGI's dendrites. The results of these experiments show that dendrite formation is enhanced in regions of the neuropil containing sensory axon terminals and that the afferents exert their influence locally on restricted portions of the branching structure. The enhanced growth of innervated dendrites appears to occur at the expense of dendritic outgrowth elsewhere, suggesting that the growing dendrites may be competing for a limited supply of some cellular component necessary for continued growth. Thus, the MGI's final branching pattern is at least partially dictated by the spatial distribution of presynaptic axons within the embryonic nervous system.