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  • 标题:TBR2-immunopsitive unipolar brush cells are associated with ectopic zebrin II-immunoreactive Purkinje cell clusters in the cerebellum of scrambler mice
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  • 作者:Chung, Seung-Hyuk ; Kim, Chul-Tae ; Jeong, Young-Gil
  • 期刊名称:Anatomy & Cell Biology
  • 印刷版ISSN:2093-3665
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:43
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:72-77
  • DOI:10.5115/acb.2010.43.1.72
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • 摘要:

    Unipolar brush cells (UBCs) are excitatory interneurons with their somata located in the granular layer. Recently, T-brain factor 2 (Tbr2) was shown to be expressed in a subset of UBCs in mouse cerebellum. Scrambler mice exhibit severe cerebellum abnormalities, including the failure of embryonic Purkinje cell dispersal and a complete absence of foliation due to a mutation in the disabled-1 adaptor protein. Since most UBC markers are expressed postnatally, it has proven difficult to identify the relationship between developing Purkinje cell clusters and migrating UBCs. Because scrambler mice closely mimic normal embryonic day 18 cerebellum, we examined whether Tbr2-positive UBCs are associated with Purkinje cell cluster markers such as zebrin II, which is the most studied compartmentation marker in the cerebellum. We investigated the distribution of Tbr2-positive UBCs in this mutant by using anti-Tbr2 immunocytochemistry. The data revealed that Tbr2 immunoreactivity was exclusively present in the nucleus of UBCs in scrambler cerebellum. Based on expression data, a Tbr2-positive UBC map was constructed. In addition, Tbr2-positive UBCs are found associated with ectopic zebrin II-immunoreactive Purkinje cell clusters in scrambler cerebellum. These data suggest that UBCs use Purkinje cell compartmentation to migrate into their final position through interactions with the embryonic array of specific Purkinje cell subtypes.

  • 关键词:Tbr2; unipolar brush cell; scrambler; zebrin; Cerebellum
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