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Development, Vol 124, Issue 10 1877-1885, Copyright © 1997 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Coordination of early neural tube development by BDNF/trkB

S Jungbluth, G Koentges and A Lumsden
Department of Developmental Neurobiology, United Medical and Dental School, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.

Neurotrophins signal through members of the trk family of tyrosine kinase receptors and are known to regulate several neuronal properties. Although initially characterized by their ability to prevent naturally occurring cell death of subsets of neurons during development, neurotrophins can also regulate the proliferation and differentiation of precursor cells. Here we report a novel involvement of neurotrophins in early development of the neural tube. We demonstrate that a functional trkB receptor is expressed by motor neuron progenitors in the ventral neural tube and that treatment of ventral neural tube explants with the trkB ligand Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) leads to a significant increase in the number of motor neurons. The only BDNF expression detectable at this stage is by a subset of ventrally projecting interneurons in the dorsal neural tube; ablating this region in vivo leads to a reduction of motor neuron numbers. This loss can be prevented by simultaneous treatment with BDNF. We propose that BDNF produced by dorsal interneurons stimulates proliferation and/or differentiation of motor neuron progenitors after anterograde axonal transport and release in proximity to the trkB-expressing motor neuron precursors, thereby coordinating development between dorsal and ventral regions of the neural tube.


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