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Kasemeier-Kulesa JC, Morrison JA, McKinney S, Li H, Gogol M, Hall K, Chen S, Wang Y, Perera A, McLennan R, Kulesa PM. Cell-type profiling of the sympathetic nervous system using spatial transcriptomics and spatial mapping of mRNA. Dev Dyn 2023. [PMID: 36840366 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The molecular identification of neural progenitor cell populations that connect to establish the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) remains unclear. This is due to technical limitations in the acquisition and spatial mapping of molecular information to tissue architecture. RESULTS To address this, we applied Slide-seq spatial transcriptomics to intact fresh frozen chick trunk tissue transversely cryo-sectioned at the developmental stage prior to SNS formation. In parallel, we performed age- and location-matched single cell (sc) RNA-seq and 10× Genomics Visium to inform our analysis. Downstream bioinformatic analyses led to the unique molecular identification of neural progenitor cells within the peripheral sympathetic ganglia (SG) and spinal cord preganglionic neurons (PGNs). We then successfully applied the HiPlex RNAscope fluorescence in situ hybridization and multispectral confocal microscopy to visualize 12 gene targets in stage-, age- and location-matched chick trunk tissue sections. CONCLUSIONS Together, these data demonstrate a robust strategy to acquire and integrate single cell and spatial transcriptomic information, resulting in improved resolution of molecular heterogeneities in complex neural tissue architectures. Successful application of this strategy to the developing SNS provides a roadmap for functional studies of neural connectivity and platform to address complex questions in neural development and regeneration.
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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Kasemeier-Kulesa JC, Spengler JA, Muolo CE, Morrison JA, Woolley TE, Schnell S, Kulesa PM. The embryonic trunk neural crest microenvironment regulates the plasticity and invasion of human neuroblastoma via TrkB signaling. Dev Biol 2021; 480:78-90. [PMID: 34416224 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Mistakes in trunk neural crest (NC) cell migration may lead to birth defects of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and neuroblastoma (NB) cancer. Receptor tyrosine kinase B (TrkB) and its ligand BDNF critically regulate NC cell migration during normal SNS development and elevated expression of TrkB is correlated with high-risk NB patients. However, in the absence of a model with in vivo interrogation of human NB cell and gene expression dynamics, the mechanistic role of TrkB in NB disease progression remains unclear. Here, we study the functional relationship between TrkB, cell invasion and plasticity of human NB cells by taking advantage of our validated in vivo chick embryo transplant model. We find that LAN5 (high TrkB) and SHSY5Y (moderate TrkB) human NB cells aggressively invade host embryos and populate typical NC targets, however loss of TrkB function significantly reduces cell invasion. In contrast, NB1643 (low TrkB) cells remain near the transplant site, but over-expression of TrkB leads to significant cell invasion. Invasive NB cells show enhanced expression of genes indicative of the most invasive host NC cells. In contrast, transplanted human NB cells down-regulate known NB tumor initiating and stem cell markers. Human NB cells that remain within the dorsal neural tube transplant also show enhanced expression of cell differentiation genes, resulting in an improved disease outcome as predicted by a computational algorithm. These in vivo data support TrkB as an important biomarker and target to control NB aggressiveness and identify the chick embryonic trunk neural crest microenvironment as a source of signals to drive NB to a less aggressive state, likely acting at the dorsal neural tube.
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA
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- School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24, UK
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
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Holt E, Stanton-Turcotte D, Iulianella A. Development of the Vertebrate Trunk Sensory System: Origins, Specification, Axon Guidance, and Central Connectivity. Neuroscience 2021; 458:229-243. [PMID: 33460728 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.12.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Crucial to an animal's movement through their environment and to the maintenance of their homeostatic physiology is the integration of sensory information. This is achieved by axons communicating from organs, muscle spindles and skin that connect to the sensory ganglia composing the peripheral nervous system (PNS), enabling organisms to collect an ever-constant flow of sensations and relay it to the spinal cord. The sensory system carries a wide spectrum of sensory modalities - from sharp pain to cool refreshing touch - traveling from the periphery to the spinal cord via the dorsal root ganglia (DRG). This review covers the origins and development of the DRG and the cells that populate it, and focuses on how sensory connectivity to the spinal cord is achieved by the diverse developmental and molecular processes that control axon guidance in the trunk sensory system. We also describe convergences and differences in sensory neuron formation among different vertebrate species to gain insight into underlying developmental mechanisms.
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- Emily Holt
- Department of Medical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Brain Repair Centre, Life Science Research Institute, 1348 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-4R2, Canada
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- Department of Medical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Brain Repair Centre, Life Science Research Institute, 1348 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-4R2, Canada
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- Department of Medical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Brain Repair Centre, Life Science Research Institute, 1348 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-4R2, Canada.
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Mehta AS, Ha P, Zhu K, Li S, Ting K, Soo C, Zhang X, Zhao M. Physiological electric fields induce directional migration of mammalian cranial neural crest cells. Dev Biol 2020; 471:97-105. [PMID: 33340512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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During neurulation, cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) migrate long distances from the neural tube to their terminal site of differentiation. The pathway traveled by the CNCCs defines the blueprint for craniofacial construction, abnormalities of which contribute to three-quarters of human birth defects. Biophysical cues like naturally occurring electric fields (EFs) have been proposed to be one of the guiding mechanisms for CNCC migration from the neural tube to identified position in the branchial arches. Such endogenous EFs can be mimicked by applied EFs of physiological strength that has been reported to guide the migration of amphibian and avian neural crest cells (NCCs), namely galvanotaxis or electrotaxis. However, the behavior of mammalian NCCs in external EFs has not been reported. We show here that mammalian CNCCs migrate towards the anode in direct current (dc) EFs. Reversal of the field polarity reverses the directedness. The response threshold was below 30 mV/mm and the migration directedness and displacement speed increased with increase in field strength. Both CNCC line (O9-1) and primary mouse CNCCs show similar galvanotaxis behavior. Our results demonstrate for the first time that the mammalian CNCCs respond to physiological EFs by robust directional migration towards the anode in a voltage-dependent manner.
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- Abijeet Singh Mehta
- Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Institute for Regenerative Cures, Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, Suite 1630, Room 1617, 2921 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Section of Orthodontics, Division of Growth and Development, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Institute for Regenerative Cures, Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, Suite 1630, Room 1617, 2921 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Institute for Regenerative Cures, Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, Suite 1630, Room 1617, 2921 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Section of Orthodontics, Division of Growth and Development, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Section of Orthodontics, Division of Growth and Development, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Institute for Regenerative Cures, Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, Suite 1630, Room 1617, 2921 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
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Kruepunga N, Hikspoors JPJM, Hülsman CJM, Mommen GMC, Köhler SE, Lamers WH. Extrinsic innervation of the pelvic organs in the lesser pelvis of human embryos. J Anat 2020; 237:672-688. [PMID: 32592418 PMCID: PMC7495285 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Realistic models to understand the developmental appearance of the pelvic nervous system in mammals are scarce. We visualized the development of the inferior hypogastric plexus and its preganglionic connections in human embryos at 4-8 weeks post-fertilization, using Amira 3D reconstruction and Cinema 4D-remodelling software. We defined the embryonic lesser pelvis as the pelvic area caudal to both umbilical arteries and containing the hindgut. Neural crest cells (NCCs) appeared dorsolateral to the median sacral artery near vertebra S1 at ~5 weeks and had extended to vertebra S5 1 day later. Once para-arterial, NCCs either formed sympathetic ganglia or continued to migrate ventrally to the pre-arterial region, where they formed large bilateral inferior hypogastric ganglionic cell clusters (IHGCs). Unlike more cranial pre-aortic plexuses, both IHGCs did not merge because the 'pelvic pouch', a temporary caudal extension of the peritoneal cavity, interposed. Although NCCs in the sacral area started to migrate later, they reached their pre-arterial position simultaneously with the NCCs in the thoracolumbar regions. Accordingly, the superior hypogastric nerve, a caudal extension of the lumbar splanchnic nerves along the superior rectal artery, contacted the IHGCs only 1 day later than the lumbar splanchnic nerves contacted the inferior mesenteric ganglion. The superior hypogastric nerve subsequently splits to become the superior hypogastric plexus. The IHGCs had two additional sources of preganglionic innervation, of which the pelvic splanchnic nerves arrived at ~6.5 weeks and the sacral splanchnic nerves only at ~8 weeks. After all preganglionic connections had formed, separate parts of the inferior hypogastric plexus formed at the bladder neck and distal hindgut.
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- Nutmethee Kruepunga
- Department of Anatomy and EmbryologyMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Department of AnatomyFaculty of ScienceMahidol UniversityBangkokThailand
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- Department of Anatomy and EmbryologyMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and EmbryologyMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and EmbryologyMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and EmbryologyMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal ResearchAcademic Medical CentreAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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Kruepunga N, Hikspoors JPJM, Hülsman CJM, Mommen GMC, Köhler SE, Lamers WH. Development of extrinsic innervation in the abdominal intestines of human embryos. J Anat 2020; 237:655-671. [PMID: 32598482 PMCID: PMC7495293 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Compared to the intrinsic enteric nervous system (ENS), development of the extrinsic ENS is poorly documented, even though its presence is easily detectable with histological techniques. We visualised its development in human embryos and foetuses of 4–9.5 weeks post‐fertilisation using Amira 3D‐reconstruction and Cinema 4D‐remodelling software. The extrinsic ENS originated from small, basophilic neural crest cells (NCCs) that migrated to the para‐aortic region and then continued ventrally to the pre‐aortic region, where they formed autonomic pre‐aortic plexuses. From here, nerve fibres extended along the ventral abdominal arteries and finally connected to the intrinsic system. Schwann cell precursors (SCPs), a subgroup of NCCs that migrate on nerve fibres, showed region‐specific differences in differentiation. SCPs developed into scattered chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla dorsolateral to the coeliac artery (CA) and into more tightly packed chromaffin cells of the para‐aortic bodies ventrolateral to the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA), with reciprocal topographic gradients between both fates. The extrinsic ENS first extended along the CA and then along the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and IMA 5 days later. Apart from the branch to the caecum, extrinsic nerves did not extend along SMA branches in the herniated parts of the midgut until the gut loops had returned in the abdominal cavity, suggesting a permissive role of the intraperitoneal environment. Accordingly, extrinsic innervation had not yet reached the distal (colonic) loop of the midgut at 9.5 weeks development. Based on intrinsic ENS‐dependent architectural remodelling of the gut layers, extrinsic innervation followed intrinsic innervation 3–4 Carnegie stages later.
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- Nutmethee Kruepunga
- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lee VM, Hernandez S, Giang B, Chabot C, Hernandez J, de Bellard ME. Molecular Events Controlling Cessation of Trunk Neural Crest Migration and Onset of Differentiation. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:199. [PMID: 32318567 PMCID: PMC7147452 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Neural crest cells (NCC) migrate extensively in vertebrate embryos to populate diverse derivatives including ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that lead migrating trunk NCC to settle at selected sites in the embryo, ceasing their migration and initiating differentiation programs. To identify candidate genes involved in these processes, we profiled genes up-regulated in purified post-migratory compared with migratory NCC using a staged, macroarrayed cDNA library. A secondary screen of in situ hybridization revealed that many genes are specifically enhanced in neural crest-derived ganglia, including macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), a ligand for CXCR4 receptor. Through in vivo and in vitro assays, we found that MIF functions as a potent chemoattractant for NCC. These results provide a molecular profile of genes expressed concomitant with gangliogenesis, thus, offering new markers and potential regulatory candidates involved in cessation of migration and onset of differentiation.
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- Vivian M Lee
- Universal Cells Inc., Seattle, WA, United States
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- Biology Department, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States
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- Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA, United States
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- Biology Department, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States
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- Biology Department, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States
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Capuana L, Boström A, Etienne-Manneville S. Multicellular scale front-to-rear polarity in collective migration. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2019; 62:114-122. [PMID: 31756576 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2019.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Collective cell migration does not only reflect the migration of cells at a similar speed and in the same direction, it also implies the emergence of new properties observed at the level of the cell group. This collective behavior relies on interactions between the cells and the establishment of a hierarchy amongst cells with leaders driving the group of followers. Here, we make the parallel between the front-to-rear polarity axis in single cell and the front-to-rear multicellular-scale polarity of a migrating collective which established through exchange of biochemical and mechanical information from the front to the rear and vice versa. Such multicellular-scale polarity gives the migrating group the possibility to better sense and adapt to energy, biochemical and mechanical constraints and facilitates migration over long distances in complex and changing environments.
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- Lavinia Capuana
- Cell Polarity, Migration and Cancer Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR3691 CNRS, Équipe Labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, F-75015, Paris, France; Sorbonne Université, Collège Doctoral, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Cell Polarity, Migration and Cancer Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR3691 CNRS, Équipe Labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, F-75015, Paris, France; School of Life Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- Cell Polarity, Migration and Cancer Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR3691 CNRS, Équipe Labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, F-75015, Paris, France.
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Delloye-Bourgeois C, Castellani V. Hijacking of Embryonic Programs by Neural Crest-Derived Neuroblastoma: From Physiological Migration to Metastatic Dissemination. Front Mol Neurosci 2019; 12:52. [PMID: 30881286 PMCID: PMC6405627 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
In the developing organism, complex molecular programs orchestrate the generation of cells in adequate numbers, drive them to migrate along the correct pathways towards appropriate territories, eliminate superfluous cells, and induce terminal differentiation of survivors into the appropriate cell-types. Despite strict controls constraining developmental processes, malignancies can emerge in still immature organisms. This is the case of neuroblastoma (NB), a highly heterogeneous disease, predominantly affecting children before the age of 5 years. Highly metastatic forms represent half of the cases and are diagnosed when disseminated foci are detectable. NB arise from a transient population of embryonic cells, the neural crest (NC), and especially NC committed to the establishment of the sympatho-adrenal tissues. The NC is generated at the dorsal edge of the neural tube (NT) of the vertebrate embryo, under the action of NC specifier gene programs. NC cells (NCCs) undergo an epithelial to mesenchymal transition, and engage on a remarkable journey in the developing embryo, contributing to a plethora of cell-types and tissues. Various NCC sub-populations and derived lineages adopt specific migratory behaviors, moving individually as well as collectively, exploiting the different embryonic substrates they encounter along their path. Here we discuss how the specific features of NCC in development are re-iterated during NB metastatic behaviors.
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- Céline Delloye-Bourgeois
- University of Lyon, University of Lyon 1 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, NeuroMyoGene Institute, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Lyon, France
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- University of Lyon, University of Lyon 1 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, NeuroMyoGene Institute, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Lyon, France
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