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Development, Vol 122, Issue 12 3785-3797, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists
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S Millet, E Bloch-Gallego, A Simeone and RM Alvarado-Mallart
INSERM U106, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Batiment de Pediatrie, Paris, France.
Segmentation of the neural tube has been clearly shown in the forebrain and caudal hindbrain but has never been demonstrated within the midbrain/hindbrain domain. Since the homeobox-containing gene Otx2 has a caudal limit of expression in this region, we examined, mainly in chick embryos, the possibility that this limit could represent an interneuromeric boundary separating either two cerebellar domains or the mesencephalic and cerebellar primordia. In situ hybridisation with chick or mouse Otx2 probes showed the existence of a transient Otx2-negative area in the caudal mesencephalic vesicle, between stages HH10 and HH17/18 in chick, and at embryonic day 9.5 in mice. The first post-mitotic neurons of the mesencephalon sensu stricto, as labelled with an anti-beta-tubulin antibody, overlay the Otx2-positive neuroepithelium with a perfect match of the caudal limits of these two markers at all embryonic stages analysed (until stage HH20). Chick/quail homotopic grafts of various portions of the midbrain/hindbrain domain have shown that the progeny of the cells located in the caudal mesencephalic vesicle at stage HH10 are found within the rhombomere 1 as early as stage HH14. Furthermore, our results indicate that the cells forming the HH20 constriction (coinciding with the caudal Otx2 limit) are the progeny of those located at the caudal Otx2 limit at stage HH10 (within the mesencephalic vesicle). As a result, the Otx2-positive portion of the HH10 mesencephalic vesicle gives rise to the HH20 mesencephalon, while the Otx2-negative portion gives rise to the HH20 rostral rhombomere 1. Long-survival analysis allowing the recognition of the various grisea of the chimeric brains strongly supports the view that, as early as stage HH10, the caudal limit of Otx2 expression separates mesencephalic from isthmo/cerebellar territories. Finally, this study revealed unexpected rostrocaudal morphogenetic movements taking place between stages HH10 and HH16 in the mediodorsal part of the caudal Otx2-positive domain.
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