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Badaloni A, Casoni F, Croci L, Chiara F, Bizzoca A, Gennarini G, Cremona O, Hawkes R, Consalez GG. Dynamic Expression and New Functions of Early B Cell Factor 2 in Cerebellar Development. THE CEREBELLUM 2019; 18:999-1010. [DOI: 10.1007/s12311-019-01051-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Kipping JA, Xie Y, Qiu A. Cerebellar development and its mediation role in cognitive planning in childhood. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:5074-5084. [PMID: 30133063 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Recent evidence suggests that the cerebellum contributes not only to the planning and execution of movement but also to the high-order cognitive planning. Childhood is a critical period for development of the cerebellum and cognitive planning. This study aimed (a) to examine the development of cerebellar morphology and microstructure and (b) to examine the cerebellar mediation roles in the relationship between age and cognitive planning in 6- to 10-year-old children (n = 126). We used an anatomical parcellation to quantify cerebellar regional gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) volumes, and WM microstructure, including fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD). We assessed planning ability using the Stockings of Cambridge (SOC) task in all children. We revealed (a) a measure-specific anterior-to-posterior gradient of the cerebellar development in childhood, that is, smaller GM volumes and greater WM FA of the anterior segment of the cerebellum but larger GM volumes and lower WM FA in the posterior segment of the cerebellum in older children; (b) an age-related improvement of the SOC performance at the most demanding level of five-move problems; and (c) a mediation role of the lateral cerebellar WM volumes in age-related improvement in the SOC performance in childhood. These results highlight the differential development of the cerebellum during childhood and provide evidence that brain adaptation to the acquisition of planning ability during childhood could partially be achieved through the engagement of the lateral cerebellum.
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- Judy A Kipping
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Singapore, Singapore.,Clinical Imaging Research Center, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Early Purkinje Cell Development and the Origins of Cerebellar Patterning. CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59749-2_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Buijink AWG, van der Stouwe AMM, Broersma M, Sharifi S, Groot PFC, Speelman JD, Maurits NM, van Rootselaar AF. Motor network disruption in essential tremor: a functional and effective connectivity study. Brain 2015; 138:2934-47. [PMID: 26248468 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2015] [Accepted: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Although involvement of the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network has often been suggested in essential tremor, the source of oscillatory activity remains largely unknown. To elucidate mechanisms of tremor generation, it is of crucial importance to study the dynamics within the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network. Using a combination of electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, it is possible to record the peripheral manifestation of tremor simultaneously with brain activity related to tremor generation. Our first aim was to study the intrinsic activity of regions within the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network using dynamic causal modelling to estimate effective connectivity driven by the concurrently recorded tremor signal. Our second aim was to objectify how the functional integrity of the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network is affected in essential tremor. We investigated the functional connectivity between cerebellar and cortical motor regions showing activations during a motor task. Twenty-two essential tremor patients and 22 healthy controls were analysed. For the effective connectivity analysis, a network of tremor-signal related regions was constructed, consisting of the left primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementary motor area, left thalamus, and right cerebellar motor regions lobule V and lobule VIII. A measure of variation in tremor severity over time, derived from the electromyogram, was included as modulatory input on intrinsic connections and on the extrinsic cerebello-thalamic connections, giving a total of 128 models. Bayesian model selection and random effects Bayesian model averaging were used. Separate seed-based functional connectivity analyses for the left primary motor cortex, left supplementary motor area and right cerebellar lobules IV, V, VI and VIII were performed. We report two novel findings that support an important role for the cerebellar system in the pathophysiology of essential tremor. First, in the effective connectivity analysis, tremor variation during the motor task has an excitatory effect on both the extrinsic connection from cerebellar lobule V to the thalamus, and the intrinsic activity of cerebellar lobule V and thalamus. Second, the functional integrity of the motor network is affected in essential tremor, with a decrease in functional connectivity between cortical and cerebellar motor regions. This decrease in functional connectivity, related to the motor task, correlates with an increase in clinical tremor severity. Interestingly, increased functional connectivity between right cerebellar lobules I-IV and the left thalamus correlates with an increase in clinical tremor severity. In conclusion, our findings suggest that cerebello-dentato-thalamic activity and cerebello-cortical connectivity is disturbed in essential tremor, supporting previous evidence of functional cerebellar changes in essential tremor.
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- Arthur W G Buijink
- 1 Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- 3 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 4 Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- 3 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 4 Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- 1 Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- 2 Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5 Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- 1 Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- 3 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 4 Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- 1 Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Consalez GG, Hawkes R. The compartmental restriction of cerebellar interneurons. Front Neural Circuits 2013; 6:123. [PMID: 23346049 PMCID: PMC3551280 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Purkinje cells (PC's) of the cerebellar cortex are subdivided into multiple different molecular phenotypes that form an elaborate array of parasagittal stripes. This array serves as a scaffold around which afferent topography is organized. The ways in which cerebellar interneurons may be restricted by this scaffolding are less well-understood. This review begins with a brief survey of cerebellar topography. Next, it reviews the development of stripes in the cerebellum with a particular emphasis on the embryological origins of cerebellar interneurons. These data serve as a foundation to discuss the hypothesis that cerebellar compartment boundaries also restrict cerebellar interneurons, both excitatory [granule cells, unipolar brush cells (UBCs)] and inhibitory (e.g., Golgi cells, basket cells). Finally, it is proposed that the same PC scaffold that restricts afferent terminal fields to stripes may also act to organize cerebellar interneurons.
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- G Giacomo Consalez
- Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan, Italy
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Dastjerdi FV, Consalez GG, Hawkes R. Pattern formation during development of the embryonic cerebellum. Front Neuroanat 2012; 6:10. [PMID: 22493569 PMCID: PMC3318227 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2012.00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2011] [Accepted: 03/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The patterning of the embryonic cerebellum is vital to establish the elaborate zone and stripe architecture of the adult. This review considers early stages in cerebellar Purkinje cell patterning, from the organization of the ventricular zone to the development of Purkinje cell clusters—the precursors of the adult stripes.
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- F V Dastjerdi
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Genes and Development Research Group, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada
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Duffin C, McFarland R, Sarna J, Vogel M, Armstrong C. Heat shock protein 25 expression and preferential Purkinje cell survival in thelurchermutant mouse cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 2010; 518:1892-907. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.22309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chung SH, Kim CT, Jeong YG, Lee NS. TBR2-immunopsitive unipolar brush cells are associated with ectopic zebrin II-immunoreactive Purkinje cell clusters in the cerebellum of scrambler mice. Anat Cell Biol 2010; 43:72-7. [PMID: 21190007 PMCID: PMC2998775 DOI: 10.5115/acb.2010.43.1.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2010] [Revised: 03/02/2010] [Accepted: 03/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Unipolar brush cells (UBCs) are excitatory interneurons with their somata located in the granular layer. Recently, T-brain factor 2 (Tbr2) was shown to be expressed in a subset of UBCs in mouse cerebellum. Scrambler mice exhibit severe cerebellum abnormalities, including the failure of embryonic Purkinje cell dispersal and a complete absence of foliation due to a mutation in the disabled-1 adaptor protein. Since most UBC markers are expressed postnatally, it has proven difficult to identify the relationship between developing Purkinje cell clusters and migrating UBCs. Because scrambler mice closely mimic normal embryonic day 18 cerebellum, we examined whether Tbr2-positive UBCs are associated with Purkinje cell cluster markers such as zebrin II, which is the most studied compartmentation marker in the cerebellum. We investigated the distribution of Tbr2-positive UBCs in this mutant by using anti-Tbr2 immunocytochemistry. The data revealed that Tbr2 immunoreactivity was exclusively present in the nucleus of UBCs in scrambler cerebellum. Based on expression data, a Tbr2-positive UBC map was constructed. In addition, Tbr2-positive UBCs are found associated with ectopic zebrin II-immunoreactive Purkinje cell clusters in scrambler cerebellum. These data suggest that UBCs use Purkinje cell compartmentation to migrate into their final position through interactions with the embryonic array of specific Purkinje cell subtypes.
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- Seung-Hyuk Chung
- Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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Armstrong CL, Chung SH, Armstrong JN, Hochgeschwender U, Jeong YG, Hawkes R. A novel somatostatin-immunoreactive mossy fiber pathway associated with HSP25-immunoreactive purkinje cell stripes in the mouse cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 2009; 517:524-38. [PMID: 19795496 DOI: 10.1002/cne.22167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Somatostatin 28 immunoreactivity (Sst28-ir) identifies a specific subset of mossy fiber terminals in the adult mouse cerebellum. By using double-labeling immunohistochemistry, we determined that Sst28-ir is associated with presynaptic mossy fiber terminal rosettes, and not Purkinje cells, Golgi cells, or unipolar brush cells. Sst28-ir mossy fibers are restricted to the central zone (lobules VI/VII) and nodular zone (lobules IX, X) of the vermis, and the paraflocculus and flocculus. Within each transverse zone the mossy fiber terminal fields form a reproducible array of parasagittal stripes. The boundaries of Sst28-ir stripes align with a specific array of Purkinje cell stripes revealed by using immunocytochemistry for the small heat shock protein HSP25. In the cerebellum of the homozygous weaver mouse, in which a subpopulation of HSP25-ir Purkinje cells are located ectopically, the corresponding Sst28-ir mossy fiber projection is also ectopic, suggesting a role for a specific Purkinje cell subset in afferent pattern formation. Likewise, in the scrambler mutant mouse, Sst28-ir mossy fibers show a very close association with HSP25-ir Purkinje cell clusters. HSP25 itself does not appear to be critical for normal patterning, however: in the KJR mouse, which does not express cerebellar HSP25, Sst28 expression appears to be normal. Likewise, the Purkinje cell patterning antigens zebrin II and HSP25 are expressed normally in both Sst- and Sst-receptor knockout mice, suggesting that somatostatinergic transmission is not necessary for Purkinje cell stripe formation.
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- C L Armstrong
- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Croci L, Chung SH, Masserdotti G, Gianola S, Bizzoca A, Gennarini G, Corradi A, Rossi F, Hawkes R, Consalez GG. A key role for the HLH transcription factor EBF2COE2,O/E-3 in Purkinje neuron migration and cerebellar cortical topography. Development 2006; 133:2719-29. [PMID: 16774995 DOI: 10.1242/dev.02437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Early B-cell factor 2 (EBF2) is one of four mammalian members of an atypical helix-loop-helix transcription factor family (COE). COE proteins have been implicated in various aspects of nervous and immune system development. We and others have generated and described mice carrying a null mutation of Ebf2, a gene previously characterized in the context of Xenopus laevis primary neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation. In addition to deficits in neuroendocrine and olfactory development, and peripheral nerve maturation, Ebf2 null mice feature an ataxic gait and obvious motor deficits associated with clear-cut abnormalities of cerebellar development. The number of Purkinje cells (PCs) in the Ebf2 null is markedly decreased, resulting in a small cerebellum with notable foliation defects,particularly in the anterior vermis. We show that this stems from the defective migration of a molecularly defined PC subset that subsequently dies by apoptosis. Part of the striped cerebellar topography is disrupted due to cell death and, in addition, many of the surviving PCs, that would normally adopt a zebrin II-negative phenotype, transdifferentiate to Zebrin II-positive, an unprecedented finding suggesting that Ebf2 is required for the establishment of a proper cerebellar cortical map.
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- Laura Croci
- San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milan, Italy
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Larouche M, Che PM, Hawkes R. Neurogranin expression identifies a novel array of Purkinje cell parasagittal stripes during mouse cerebellar development. J Comp Neurol 2006; 494:215-27. [PMID: 16320235 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Markers that reveal the parasagittal organization of cerebellar Purkinje cells may be grouped into two classes based on the time during development when they are expressed. In mice, early-onset markers are defined by their heterogeneous expression in clusters of Purkinje cells during late embryogenesis, which disappears shortly following birth. Late-onset markers are generally not expressed until about 1 week after birth and do not reach a stable striped expression pattern until about 3 weeks postnatally. Currently, no endogenous markers are known that are heterogeneously expressed in the temporal gap between these two classes. Here we present immunocytochemical evidence that parasagittal stripes of Purkinje cells express a member of the calpacitin protein family, neurogranin, possibly from as early as embryonic day (E) 13 and definitively from E15, in a pattern that persists up to postnatal day (P) 20. Neurogranin is thus the first endogenous marker of a Purkinje cell subset capable of bridging the temporal gap between the early- and late-onset patterns. In the early neonate, up to five pairs of neurogranin-immunopositive Purkinje cell stripes run parasagittally through the cerebellum, with the exact number dependent on the rostrocaudal position. Expression is lost during postnatal development in a transverse zone-dependent fashion. Purkinje cells in the central and nodular zones lose neurogranin expression between approximately P4 and P6, whereas expression in the posterior zone persists until approximately P20. Neurogranin immunoreactivity will be a valuable tool in helping to clarify the relationships between early- and late-onset patterns.
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- Matt Larouche
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Genes and Development Research Group, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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Cho JH, Tsai MJ. Preferential posterior cerebellum defect in BETA2/NeuroD1 knockout mice is the result of differential expression of BETA2/NeuroD1 along anterior–posterior axis. Dev Biol 2006; 290:125-38. [PMID: 16368089 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2005] [Revised: 11/08/2005] [Accepted: 11/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BETA2/NeuroD1 has been shown to play a major role in terminal differentiation of the pancreatic and enteroendocrine cells, as well as for the survival of photoreceptors. Here, we report that the loss of BETA2/NeuroD1 affected the cerebellar development with a major reduction of granule cell number. However, there is a differential reduction of granule cells along the anterior and posterior axis of the cerebellum; while the reduction of granule cells in the anterior lobes is substantial, there is an almost complete loss of granule cells in the posterior compartment. To understand the mechanism for this anterior-posterior difference, we carried out detailed analyses. We found that both BETA2/NeuroD1 and its direct target TrkC, expression commence earlier in the posterior part than those in the anterior part during cerebellum development. Consequently, loss of BETA2/NeuroD1 enhances granule cell death in the posterior 2 days earlier than the anterior. Furthermore, the higher rate of cell death in the posterior of the cerebellum is concomitant with the reduction of TrkC expression in knockout mice. Thus, our data indicate that preferential expression of BETA2/NeuroD1 and TrkC in posterior lobes explains the earlier start of cell apoptosis and preferential loss of granule cells in the posterior lobes.
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- Jang-Hyeon Cho
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Armstrong CL, Vogel MW, Hawkes R. Development of Hsp25 expression compartments is not constrained by Purkinje cell defects in the Lurcher mouse mutant. J Comp Neurol 2006; 491:69-78. [PMID: 16127699 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Four transverse zones can be distinguished in the adult mouse cerebellar cortex based on differential expression of cell-specific antigens, termination patterns of mossy fiber afferents, and phenotypes of mouse mutants with cerebellar defects: the anterior zone (AZ), central zone (CZ), posterior zone (PZ), and nodular zone (NZ). In the heterozygous Lurcher (Lc/+) mouse a zonally restricted abnormality in Purkinje cell development is seen. The Purkinje cell-specific antigen zebrin II is normally differentially expressed in all four zones of the adult cerebellum, but in the Lc/+ mutant is confined to the PZ and NZ, caudal to a transverse boundary in the dorsal aspect of lobule VIII. In this study we wanted to understand why zebrin II expression is arrested at this boundary and whether the Lc mutation affects the differentiation of additional Purkinje cell antigens in a similar manner. To determine this, we took advantage of the dynamic developmental timetable of another Purkinje cell antigen, the small heat shock protein Hsp25. Using immunohistochemistry we demonstrate that cerebellar maturation anterior to the CZ/PZ transverse boundary appears to be unaffected by the Lc allele, in that initial progression of Hsp25 expression in the Lc/+ cerebellum was similar to controls. Double-labeling experiments with anti-Hsp25 and anti-calbindin suggest that characteristic banding patterns of Hsp25 in Lc/+ cerebellum develop and are preserved despite cell loss. Thus, since simple temporal or spatial models cannot account for the zonal restriction seen during Lc/+ cerebellar development, the abnormality may be zebrin II-specific.
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- Carol L Armstrong
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Genes and Development Research Group, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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The object of this review is to assemble much of the literature concerning Purkinje cell death in cerebellar pathology and to relate this to what is now known about the complex topography of the cerebellar cortex. A brief introduction to Purkinje cells, and their regionalization is provided, and then the data on Purkinje cell death in mouse models and, where appropriate, their human counterparts, have been arranged according to several broad categories--naturally-occurring and targeted mutations leading to Purkinje cell death, Purkinje cell death due to toxins, Purkinje cell death in ischemia, Purkinje cell death in infection and in inherited disorders, etc. The data reveal that cerebellar Purkinje cell death is much more topographically complex than is usually appreciated.
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- Justyna R Sarna
- Genes Development Research Group, Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1
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Ozaki M, Hashikawa T, Ikeda K, Miyakawa Y, Ichikawa T, Ishihara Y, Kumanishi T, Yano R. Degeneration of pontine mossy fibres during cerebellar development in weaver mutant mice. Eur J Neurosci 2002; 16:565-74. [PMID: 12270032 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02111.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In weaver mutant mice, substitution of an amino acid residue in the pore region of GIRK2, a subtype of the G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying K+ channel, changes the properties of the homomeric channel to produce a lethal depolarized state in cerebellar granule cells and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra. Degeneration of these types of neurons causes strong ataxia and Parkinsonian phenomena in the mutant mice, respectively. On the other hand, the mutant gene is also expressed in various other brain regions, in which the mutant may have effects on neuronal survival. Among these regions, we focused on the pontine nuclei, the origin of the pontocerebellar mossy fibres, projecting mainly into the central region of the cerebellar cortex. The results of histological analysis showed that by P9 the number of neurons in the nuclei was reduced in the mutant to about one half and by P18 to one third of those in the wild type, whereas until P7 the number were about the same in wild-type and weaver mutant mice. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the nuclei showed a marked reduction in volume and shape of the mutant nuclei, correlating well with the decrease in neuronal number. In addition, DiI (a lipophilic tracer dye) tracing experiments revealed retraction of pontocerebellar mossy fibres from the cerebellar cortex after P5. From these results, we conclude that projecting neurons in the pontine nuclei, as well as cerebellar granule cells and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra, strongly degenerate in weaver mutant mice, resulting in elimination of pontocerebellar mossy fibres during cerebellar development.
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- Miwako Ozaki
- Laboratory for Cellular Information Processing, Brain Science Institute, Riken, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Sillitoe RV, Hawkes R. Whole-mount immunohistochemistry: a high-throughput screen for patterning defects in the mouse cerebellum. J Histochem Cytochem 2002; 50:235-44. [PMID: 11799142 DOI: 10.1177/002215540205000211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Large-scale mouse mutagenesis experiments now under way require appropriate screening methods. An important class of potential mutants comprises those with defects in the development of normal cerebellar patterning. Cerebellar defects are likely to be identified often because they typically result in ataxia. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is commonly used to reveal cerebellar organization. In particular, the antigen zebrin II (=aldolase C), expressed by stripes of Purkinje cells, has been valuable in revealing cerebellar pattern abnormalities. The development of whole-mount procedures in Drosophila, chick, and Xenopus embryos allows complex patterns to be studied in situ while preserving the integrity of the structure. By combining procedures originally designed for embryonic and early postnatal tissue analyses, we have developed a whole-mount IHC protocol using anti-zebrin II, which reveals the complex topography of Purkinje cells in the adult mouse cerebellum. Furthermore, the procedure is effective with a number of other antigens and works well on both perfusion-fixed and immersion-fixed tissue. By use of this approach, normal adult murine cerebellar topography and patterning defects caused by mutation can be studied without the need for three-dimensional reconstruction.
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- Roy V Sillitoe
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, and Genes and Development Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Armstrong C, Hawkes R. Selective Purkinje cell ectopia in the cerebellum of the weaver mouse. J Comp Neurol 2001; 439:151-61. [PMID: 11596045 DOI: 10.1002/cne.1339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The adult mouse cerebellar vermis consists of four transverse zones, each of which is further subdivided into parasagittal stripes. In the adult weaver (wv/wv) mouse, the zebrin II expression pattern in the cerebellar vermis is abnormal, consistent with the absence of a central zone (approximately lobules VI/VII). Because the small, heat shock protein HSP25 is a constitutive marker of parasagittal bands of Purkinje cells in the caudal central zone and the nodular zone (approximately lobules IX/X), we used HSP25 immunocytochemistry to show that the patterning abnormalities in wv/wv reflect selective Purkinje cell ectopia rather than the absence of the central zone. A specific HSP25-immunopositive Purkinje cell ectopia within the central zone was identified. Symmetrical clusters of HSP25-immunopositive Purkinje cells, which presumably would have formed the parasagittal stripes in the wild type, are present ectopically on either side of the midline in wv/wv. In contrast, in the nodular zone, HSP25-immunopositive Purkinje cells form a near-monolayer and are organized into parasagittal stripes. We therefore conclude that specific Purkinje cell clusters in the wv/wv cerebellum fail to disperse and that this ectopia contributes to the topographical abnormalities.
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- C Armstrong
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy and Genes and Development Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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Reader TA, Sénécal J. Distribution of glutamate receptors of the NMDA subtype in brains of heterozygous and homozygous weaver mutant mice. Neurochem Res 2001; 26:579-89. [PMID: 11519718 DOI: 10.1023/a:1010922900470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
In weaver mice, mutation of an G-protein inwardly rectifying K+ channel leads to a cerebellar developmental anomaly characterized by granule and Purkinje cell loss and, in addition, degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. To evaluate other deficits, glutamate receptors sensitive to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) were examined by autoradiography with [3H]MK-801 in 36 brain regions from heterozygous (wv/+) and homozygous (wv/wv) weaver mutants, and compared to wild type (+/+) mice. In wv/+ and wv/wv mutants labelling decreased in cortical regions, septum, hippocampus, subiculum, neostriatum, nucleus accumbens, superior colliculus and in the cerebellar granular layer. The reductions in [3H]MK-801 binding were particularly specific in the cerebellar granular layer of wv/wv mutants, but an ubiquitous altered NMDA receptor topology was revealed in other brain regions. Abnormal developmental signals, or aberrant cellular responses, may underlie widespread NMDA receptor reductions, while in cerebellar cortex they could be lacking due to the massive loss of cerebellar granule cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- T A Reader
- Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Département de physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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