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Yamauchi J, Chan JR, Shooter EM. Neurotrophin 3 activation of TrkC induces Schwann cell migration through the c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:14421-6. [PMID: 14614136 PMCID: PMC283607 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2336152100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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During development and nerve injury, complex interactions between glial cells and neurons are essential for establishing proper nerve function. Neurotrophins play multiple roles in the developing nervous system, including cell survival, growth, and differentiation. Here we show that migration of Schwann cells, isolated from sciatic nerves, is significantly enhanced by neurotrophin 3, but not by nerve growth factor or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. The neurotrophin-3-induced cell migration was also observed in Schwann cells isolated from sciatic nerves of p75NTR-/- mice, indicating that neurotrophin 3 enhances cell migration through TrkC. This effect was blocked by K252a, an inhibitor of the Trk receptor family. Additionally, the neurotrophin-3-induced cell migration depended on Rho GTPases (Rac1 and Cdc42) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase. We obtained the same results with Cos-7 cells expressing TrkC. Taken together, these results suggest that neurotrophin 3 activation of TrkC induces Schwann cell migration through the c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling pathway.
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- Junji Yamauchi
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5125, USA
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O'Donovan MC, Williams NM, Owen MJ. Recent advances in the genetics of schizophrenia. Hum Mol Genet 2003; 12 Spec No 2:R125-33. [PMID: 12952866 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The high heritability of schizophrenia has stimulated much work aimed at identifying susceptibility genes using positional genetics. As a result, several strong and well-established linkages have emerged. Three of the best-supported regions are 6p24-22, 1q21-22 and 13q32-34 where single studies have achieved genome-wide significance at P<0.05 and suggestive positive findings have also been reported in other samples. Other promising regions include 8p21-22, 6q21-25, 22q11-12, 5q21-q33, 10p15-p11 and 1q42. Recently, evidence implicating individual genes within some of the linked regions has been reported and more importantly replicated. Currently, the weight of evidence supports NRG1 and DTNBP1 as schizophrenia susceptibility loci, though work remains before we understand precisely how genetic variation at each locus confers susceptibility and protection. The evidence for COMT, RGS4 and G72 is promising but not yet persuasive. While it is essential that further replications are established, the respective contributions of each gene, relationships with aspects of the phenotype, the possibility of epistatic interactions between genes and functional interactions between the gene products will all need investigation. The ability of positional genetics to implicate novel genes and pathways will open up new vistas for neurobiological research, and all the signs are that genetic research is poised to deliver crucial insights into the nature of schizophrenia.
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- Michael C O'Donovan
- Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff,
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Bartolami S, Augé C, Travo C, Ventéo S, Knipper M, Sans A. Vestibular Schwann cells are a distinct subpopulation of peripheral glia with specific sensitivity to growth factors and extracellular matrix components. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 57:270-90. [PMID: 14608663 DOI: 10.1002/neu.10302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Vestibular nerve Schwann cells are predisposed to develop schwannoma. While knowledge concerning this condition has greatly improved, little is known about properties of normal vestibular Schwann cells. In an attempt to understand this predisposition, we evaluated cell density regulation and proliferative features of these cells taken from 6-day-old rats. Data were compared to those obtained with sciatic Schwann cells. In both vestibular and sciatic 7-day-old cultures, Schwann cells appear as bipolar or flattened cells. However, sciatic and vestibular cells greatly differ in other aspects: on poly-L-lysine coating, sciatic cells specifically synthesize myelin basic protein, while expression of P0 mRNAs is restricted to some vestibular cells. Laminin increases sciatic cell density but not that of vestibular cells. Fibronectin selectively enhances the proliferation of vestibular Schwann cells and lacks an effect on sciatic ones. Comparison of cell density changes between sciatic and vestibular cells shows that they are sensitive to two different sets of growth factors. Progesterone and FGF-2 combined with forskolin selectively enhance the cell density of sciatic glia, while IGF-1 and GDNF specifically increase vestibular cell density. Furthermore, BrdU incorporation assays indicate that GDNF is also a mitogen for vestibular cells. Altogether, vestibular Schwann cells display phenotypic features and responsiveness to exogenous signals that are significantly different from sciatic Schwann cells, suggesting that vestibular glia form a subpopulation of Schwann cells.
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- Sylvain Bartolami
- INSERM U583, Université Montpellier II, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34090 Montpellier, France.
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Hypertrophic neuropathies and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors in transgenic mice overexpressing glial growth factor beta3 in myelinating Schwann cells. J Neurosci 2003. [PMID: 12917360 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-19-07269.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) family of growth and differentiation factors exerts a variety of effects on Schwann cells and their precursors during nervous system development; however, NRG-1 effects on adult Schwann cells are poorly defined. Several lines of evidence suggest that NRG-1 actions on adult Schwann cells are distinct from those observed during development. To test this hypothesis, we generated transgenic mice overexpressing the NRG-1 isoform glial growth factor beta3 (GGFbeta3) in myelinating Schwann cells [protein zero (P0)GGFbeta3 mice]. P0-GGFbeta3 mice develop resting tremors, gait abnormalities, decreased hindlimb strength, and paralysis by approximately 7 months of age. Sciatic nerves from these animals show a hypertrophic neuropathy characterized by demyelination, remyelination, and "onion bulb" formation. Development of this hypertrophic neuropathy is preceded by Schwann cell hyperplasia that is prominent in 1-month-old mice and present but decreased in 2- and 4-month-old animals. P0-GGFbeta3 mice also develop peripheral ganglion-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Motor, sensory, and sympathetic ganglia from 1-, 2-, and 4-month-old P0-GGFbeta3 mice uniformly contain intraganglionic, likely preneoplastic, Schwann cell proliferations. Examination of bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and caspase-3 activation in sciatic nerves and trigeminal ganglia indicates that Schwann cell hyperplasia in P0-GGFbeta3 mice reflects increased proliferation rather than decreased apoptosis. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that GGFbeta3 induces proliferation of adult Schwann cells and demyelination of peripheral nerve axons. Furthermore, overexpression of this NRG-1 isoform frequently induces neoplastic Schwann cell proliferation within PNS ganglia, suggesting that NRG-1 may contribute to human Schwann cell neoplasia.
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Huijbregts RPH, Roth KA, Schmidt RE, Carroll SL. Hypertrophic neuropathies and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors in transgenic mice overexpressing glial growth factor beta3 in myelinating Schwann cells. J Neurosci 2003; 23:7269-80. [PMID: 12917360 PMCID: PMC6740435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2002] [Revised: 06/03/2003] [Accepted: 06/06/2003] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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The neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) family of growth and differentiation factors exerts a variety of effects on Schwann cells and their precursors during nervous system development; however, NRG-1 effects on adult Schwann cells are poorly defined. Several lines of evidence suggest that NRG-1 actions on adult Schwann cells are distinct from those observed during development. To test this hypothesis, we generated transgenic mice overexpressing the NRG-1 isoform glial growth factor beta3 (GGFbeta3) in myelinating Schwann cells [protein zero (P0)GGFbeta3 mice]. P0-GGFbeta3 mice develop resting tremors, gait abnormalities, decreased hindlimb strength, and paralysis by approximately 7 months of age. Sciatic nerves from these animals show a hypertrophic neuropathy characterized by demyelination, remyelination, and "onion bulb" formation. Development of this hypertrophic neuropathy is preceded by Schwann cell hyperplasia that is prominent in 1-month-old mice and present but decreased in 2- and 4-month-old animals. P0-GGFbeta3 mice also develop peripheral ganglion-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Motor, sensory, and sympathetic ganglia from 1-, 2-, and 4-month-old P0-GGFbeta3 mice uniformly contain intraganglionic, likely preneoplastic, Schwann cell proliferations. Examination of bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and caspase-3 activation in sciatic nerves and trigeminal ganglia indicates that Schwann cell hyperplasia in P0-GGFbeta3 mice reflects increased proliferation rather than decreased apoptosis. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that GGFbeta3 induces proliferation of adult Schwann cells and demyelination of peripheral nerve axons. Furthermore, overexpression of this NRG-1 isoform frequently induces neoplastic Schwann cell proliferation within PNS ganglia, suggesting that NRG-1 may contribute to human Schwann cell neoplasia.
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- Richard P H Huijbregts
- Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0017, USA
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Frohnert PW, Stonecypher MS, Carroll SL. Constitutive activation of the neuregulin-1/ErbB receptor signaling pathway is essential for the proliferation of a neoplastic Schwann cell line. Glia 2003; 43:104-18. [PMID: 12838503 DOI: 10.1002/glia.10232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) proteins promote Schwann cell survival, differentiation and proliferation during development. High levels of an NRG-like activity are also present in some human peripheral nerve sheath tumors, suggesting that NRG-1 isoforms may be involved in the development of these neoplasms. We examined the expression of NRG-1 and its receptors, the erbB membrane tyrosine kinases, in JS1 cells, a rapidly proliferating line derived from a chemically induced rat malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST). Relative to nontransformed Schwann cells, JS1 cells overexpress the NRG-1 receptor erbB3 and its erbB2 coreceptor; JS1 erbB2 transcripts show no evidence of the activating mutation commonly found in N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced neoplasms. JS1 cells do not express the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a kinase implicated in the pathogenesis of a major subset of MPNSTs. JS1 cells also express mRNAs encoding multiple alpha and beta isoforms from the glial growth factor and sensory and motor neuron-derived factor NRG-1 subfamilies. Stimulation with NRG-1beta in the presence of forskolin produces a dose-dependent increase in JS1 DNA synthesis. Even in unstimulated JS1 cells, however, erbB2 and erbB3 are constitutively tyrosine phosphorylated. Reducing this constitutive phosphorylation with the specific erbB inhibitor PD158780 markedly impairs JS1 DNA synthesis. These observations support the hypothesis that NRG-1 isoforms and erbB kinases act in an autocrine and/or paracrine fashion to promote mitogenesis in JS1 cells. The absence of EGFR expression in JS1 cells suggests that constitutive activation of the NRG-1/erbB signaling pathway is an alternative means of inducing Schwann cell neoplasia.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Axotomy/methods
- Blotting, Northern/methods
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Cell Division/physiology
- Cells, Cultured
- Colforsin/pharmacology
- DNA/biosynthesis
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- ErbB Receptors/genetics
- Immunoblotting/methods
- Male
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
- Neuregulin-1/metabolism
- Neuregulin-1/physiology
- Nuclease Protection Assays/methods
- Precipitin Tests/methods
- Pyrimidines/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Rats
- Receptor, ErbB-2/drug effects
- Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism
- Receptor, ErbB-2/physiology
- Receptor, ErbB-3/drug effects
- Receptor, ErbB-3/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Schwann Cells/cytology
- Schwann Cells/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Thymidine/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Tritium/metabolism
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- Paul W Frohnert
- Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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Tan W, Rouen S, Barkus KM, Dremina YS, Hui D, Christianson JA, Wright DE, Yoon SO, Dobrowsky RT. Nerve growth factor blocks the glucose-induced down-regulation of caveolin-1 expression in Schwann cells via p75 neurotrophin receptor signaling. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:23151-62. [PMID: 12679365 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212986200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Altered neurotrophism in diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is associated in part with substantial degenerative changes in Schwann cells (SCs) and an increased expression of the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR). Caveolin-1 (Cav-1) is highly expressed in adult SCs, and changes in its expression can regulate signaling through Erb B2, a co-receptor that mediates the effects of neuregulins in promoting SC growth and differentiation. We examined the hypothesis that hyperglycemia-induced changes in Cav-1 expression and p75NTR signaling may contribute to altered neurotrophism in DPN by modulating SC responses to neuregulins. In an animal model of type 1 diabetes, hyperglycemia induced a progressive decrease of Cav-1 in SCs of sciatic nerve that was reversed by insulin therapy. Treatment of primary neonatal SCs with 20-30 mm d-glucose, but not l-glucose, was sufficient to inhibit transcription from the Cav-1 promoter and decrease Cav-1 mRNA and protein expression. Hyperglycemia prolonged the kinetics of Erb B2 phosphorylation and significantly enhanced the mitogenic response of SCs to neuregulin1-beta1, and this effect was mimicked by the forced down-regulation of Cav-1. Intriguingly, nerve growth factor antagonized the enhanced mitogenic response of SCs to neuregulin1-beta1 and inhibited the glucose-induced down-regulation of Cav-1 transcription, mRNA, and protein expression through p75NTR-dependent activation of JNK. Our data suggest that Cav-1 down-regulation may contribute to altered neurotrophism in DPN by enhancing the response of SCs to neuregulins and that p75NTR-mediated JNK activation may provide a mechanism for the neurotrophic modulation of hyperglycemic stress.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blood Glucose/metabolism
- Caveolin 1
- Caveolins/genetics
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/physiopathology
- Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects
- Genes, Reporter
- Glucose/antagonists & inhibitors
- Glucose/pharmacology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nerve Growth Factor/pharmacology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/physiology
- Reference Values
- Schwann Cells/cytology
- Schwann Cells/physiology
- Sciatic Nerve/cytology
- Sciatic Nerve/physiology
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
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- Wenbin Tan
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Casaccia-Bonnefil P, Liu A. Relationship between cell cycle molecules and onset of oligodendrocyte differentiation. J Neurosci Res 2003; 72:1-11. [PMID: 12645074 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil
- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
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Cosgaya JM, Chan JR, Shooter EM. The neurotrophin receptor p75NTR as a positive modulator of myelination. Science 2002; 298:1245-8. [PMID: 12424382 DOI: 10.1126/science.1076595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Schwann cells in developing and regenerating peripheral nerves express elevated levels of the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR. Neurotrophins are key mediators of peripheral nervous system myelination. Our results show that myelin formation is inhibited in the absence of functional p75NTR and enhanced by blocking TrkC activity. Moreover, the enhancement of myelin formation by endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor is mediated by the p75NTR receptor, whereas TrkC receptors are responsible for neurotrophin-3 inhibition. Thus p75NTR and TrkC receptors have opposite effects on myelination.
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- Jose M Cosgaya
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild Building, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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In the nervous system, receptor regulated phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases) participate in fundamental cellular activities that underlie development. Activated by trophic factors, growth factors, neuregulins, cytokines, or neurotransmitters, PI 3-kinases have been implicated in neuronal and glial survival and differentiation. PI 3-kinases produce inositol lipid second messengers that bind to pleckstrin homology (PH) domains in diverse groups of signal transduction proteins, and control their enzymatic activities, subcellular membrane localization, or both. Downstream targets of the inositol lipid messengers include protein kinases and regulators of small GTPases. The kinase Akt/PKB functions as a key component of the PI 3-kinase dependent survival pathway through its phosphorylation and regulation of apoptotic proteins and transcription factors. Furthermore, since members of the Rho GTPase and Arf GTPase families have been implicated in regulation of the actin cytoskeleton, vesicular trafficking, and transcription, the downstream targets of PI 3-kinase that control these GTPases are excellent candidates to mediate aspects of PI 3-kinase dependent neuronal and glial differentiation.
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- Erin E Rodgers
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Berthold CH, Nilsson RI. De- and remyelination in spinal roots during normal perinatal development in the cat: a brief summary of structural observations and a conceptual hypothesis. J Anat 2002; 200:391-403. [PMID: 12090405 PMCID: PMC1570693 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2002.00042.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have studied the perinatal development of large myelinated axons (adult D > 10 microm) in cat ventral and dorsal lumbosacral spinal roots using autoradiography and electron microscopy (serial section analysis). These axons acquire their first myelin sheaths 2-3 weeks before birth and show nearly mature functional properties first at a diameter of 4-5 microm, i.e. 3-4 weeks after birth. The most conspicuous event during this development takes place around birth, when a transient primary myelin sheath degeneration strikes already well myelinated although short 'aberrant' Schwann cells. The aberrant Schwann cells become completely demyelinated, then measuring about 10 microm in length, and are subsequently eliminated from their parent axons. Morphometry indicates that on average 50% of the Schwann cells originally present along a prospective large spinal root axon suffer elimination. Here it should be noted that in cat lumbo-sacral spinal roots, the longitudinal growth of myelinated Schwann cells that belong to the group containing what will be the largest fibers is on average twice that of their parent axons. The elimination phenomenon is particularly striking in the dorsal roots close to the spinal cord where CNS tissue invades the root for several hundred micrometres. Our observations suggest that, once demyelinated and then eliminated, Schwann cells (i.e. aberrant Schwann cells) colonize neighbouring axons, future myelinated as well as future unmyelinated ones. In the former case the immigrant Schwann cells appear to start myelin production, possibly risking a second demyelination and elimination. We take our observations to indicate that Schwann cells in the cat, during normal development, may switch iteratively between a 'myelin-producing' and a 'non-myelin-producing' phenotype. From a functional point of view the transient presence along a myelinated axon of intercalated unmyelinated segments approximately 10 microm long, due to aberrant Schwann cells, would mean a slowing down of the action potential. The rapid disappearance of aberrant Schwann cells during the two first postnatal weeks could then explain the progressing normalization of the leg-length conduction time.
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- C H Berthold
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Göteborgs University, Sweden.
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Akassoglou K, Yu WM, Akpinar P, Strickland S. Fibrin inhibits peripheral nerve remyelination by regulating Schwann cell differentiation. Neuron 2002; 33:861-75. [PMID: 11906694 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00617-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Remyelination is a critical step for functional nerve regeneration. Here we show that fibrin deposition in the peripheral nervous system after injury is a key regulator of remyelination. After sciatic nerve crush, fibrin is deposited and its clearance correlates with remyelination. Fibrin induces phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and production of p75 NGF low-affinity receptor in Schwann cells and maintains them in a nonmyelinating state, suppresses fibronectin production, and prevents synthesis of myelin proteins. In mice depleted of fibrin(ogen), remyelination of myelinated axons is accelerated due to the faster transition of the Schwann cells to a myelinating state. Regulation of fibrin clearance and/or deposition could be a key regulatory mechanism for Schwann differentiation after nerve damage.
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- Katerina Akassoglou
- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Schwann cells are the major glial population of the vertebrate peripheral nervous system. In the adult, they build a protecting sheath around neuronal processes and myelinate large-caliber axons. Already early in development, Schwann cells and neurons establish close contacts. Later development and the maintenance of peripheral nerves are crucially dependent on the controlled bi-directional dialogue between these two cell types. Several major phases can be distinguished in the life of a Schwann cell: determination, differentiation, and potentially myelination. The aim of this review is to summarize the molecular and cellular characteristics of the first steps in the life of a Schwann cell, the development from a multipotent neural crest cell to a differentiated Schwann cell.
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- Christian S Lobsiger
- Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zurich
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Murphy S, Krainock R, Tham M. Neuregulin signaling via erbB receptor assemblies in the nervous system. Mol Neurobiol 2002; 25:67-77. [PMID: 11890458 DOI: 10.1385/mn:25:1:067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Neuregulins (NRG) play important roles in the development, maintenance, and repair of the nervous system, with influences on neuronal migration, synaptogenesis, receptor subunit composition, and the proliferation/survival of oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells. However, the precise detail of how the NRGs signal through ErbB receptors, particularly at central synapses, is incomplete. The receptor kinase domain provides sites for association with adaptor proteins. In addition, evidence from recent reports suggests that ErbB2/4 receptors, through their C-terminal amino acids, can form specific associations with scaffolding proteins. The existence of such assemblies expands the range of signaling cascades available to the NRGs.
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- Sean Murphy
- Institute of Cell Signalling, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
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