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Development, Vol 124, Issue 14 2799-2805, Copyright © 1997 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
M Maden, A Graham, E Gale, C Rollinson and M Zile
Developmental Biology Research Centre, King's College London, UK. m.maden@kcl.ac.uk
We have previously shown that quail embryos that develop in the absence of vitamin A have severe defects in their central nervous system. One defect is a completely missing posterior hindbrain. Here we have studied how this comes about by examining cell death using a wholemount technique. In these A- embryos we observe two narrow bands of ectopic apoptosis. One is in the mesenchyme in the region of the first somite and occurs at the 4-6 somite stage, before neural tube closure. The second band follows immediately afterwards and occurs in the neuroepithelium of the presumptive posterior hindbrain at the 6-8 somite stage. Electron microscopy shows that the dying neuroepithelial cells exhibit the characteristics of apoptosis. Rescuing the embryos by injecting retinol before gastrulation completely prevents these apoptotic events. In an effort to identify some of the genes that may be involved in the apoptotic pathway we show that Msx-2 is upregulated in the apoptotic neuroepithelium and thus may be involved, whereas Bmp-4 is not altered and thus presumably not involved. Since these apoptotic event take place at the time of specification of axial identity and segmentation in the mesenchyme and neuroepithelium we conclude that these cells die because they are wrongly specified in terms of their rostrocaudal position, a novel phenomenon which we refer to as positional apoptosis.
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