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Immunocytochemical localization of tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 during the development of hippocampal neurons in culture
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n dissociated-cell cultures prepared from the embryonic rat hippocampus, neurons establish both axons and dendrites, which differ in geometry, in ultrastructure, and in synaptic polarity. We have used immunocytochemistry with monoclonal antibodies to study the regional distribution of beta-tubulin and micro-tubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) in hippocampal cultures and their localization during early stages of axonal and dendritic development. After development for a week or more in culture, when axons and dendrites were well- differentiated, the distribution of these two proteins was quite different. Beta-tubulin was present throughout the nerve cell, in soma, dendrites, and axon. It was also present in all classes of non-neuronal cells, astrocytes, fibroblasts, and a presumptive glial progenitor cell. In contrast, MAP2 was preferentially localized to nerve cells; within neurons, MAP2 was present in soma and dendrites, but little or no immunostaining was detectable in axons. Both beta-tubulin and MAP2 were present in nerve cells at the time of plating. From the earliest stages of process extension, beta-tubulin was present in all neuronal processes, both axons and dendrites. Surprisingly, MAP2 was also initially present in both axons and dendrites, extending as far as the axonal growth cone. With subsequent development, MAP2 staining was selectively lost from the axon so that after 1 week in vitro little or no axonal staining remained. Taken together with earlier results (Caceres et al., 1984a), these data indicate that the establishment of neuronal polarity, as manifested by the molecular differentiation of the axonal and dendritic cytoskeleton, occurs largely under endogenous control, even under culture conditions in which cell interactions are greatly restricted.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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In dissociated embryonic rat hippocampal cultures, beta-tubulin was present in axons, dendrites, soma, and non-neuronal cells, whereas MAP2 was preferentially localized to soma and dendrites in mature neurons. Unexpectedly, MAP2 was initially present in both axons and dendrites, including axonal growth cones, and was selectively lost from axons over the first week in culture.
Key findings
- In mature cultures (7–35 d in vitro), beta-tubulin immunoreactivity was present throughout neurons—soma, dendrites, and even the thinnest axons—and in astrocytes, fibroblasts, and presumptive glial progenitor cells; MAP2 was intensely stained in perikarya and dendrites but showed little or no axonal staining.
- At plating, both beta-tubulin and MAP2 were present in nerve cells; within 1–2 d, MAP2 immunoreactivity was present in all developing processes, including axons, and could be followed to axonal tips as far as 150 µm from cell bodies.
- By 3–4 d in culture, MAP2 staining in axons appeared preferentially in distal axonal regions, sometimes restricted to the growth cone and immediately proximal axon; by about the end of the first week, axonal MAP2 staining had largely disappeared.
- After 1 d in culture, when MAP2 was still uniformly distributed in axons and dendrites, dendrites were already elongating about 5× more slowly than axons, indicating that MAP2 presence does not determine dendritic identity.
Methods
- Hippocampal neurons were prepared from 17–20-d-old rat fetuses, dissociated after trypsin treatment, and plated onto polylysine-treated coverslips at 5,000–15,000 cells/cm²; coverslips were co-cultured facing confluent astroglial monolayers in MEM with N2 supplement and 0.1% ovalbumin.
- Immunocytochemistry used monoclonal antibodies against beta-tubulin (clones Tu9b, Tu12, Tu27) and MAP2 (clones AP9, AP13), with several fixation/permeabilization procedures including paraformaldehyde/glutaraldehyde, cold methanol, and Triton X-100 extraction; staining was visualized by peroxidase-antiperoxidase and diaminobenzidine.
- Analysis was qualitative light-microscopic immunocytochemistry, with controls omitting primary antibody or preabsorbing with purified antigen.
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- The paper states that MAP2 distribution in situ has not been studied at comparably early stages, so it is unknown whether axons transiently contain MAP2 during normal development in situ.
- The paper states that axonal MAP2 staining could be an artifact of dissociation and culture, and that the functional role of MAP2 in developing axons is not known.
- Evident from the text: the study is qualitative immunocytochemistry without quantification, and the culture system uses glial co-culture and trophic support, so it may not fully reproduce in vivo cell interactions.
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“The non-neuronal cells present in these cultures, which have been identified using cell-type specific markers (A. Hodson and G. Banker, unpublished observations), include astrocytes, fibroblasts, and presumptive glial progenitor cells similar to those described by Raff et al. (1983) in cultures of optic nerve.”
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The citation to Raff et al. supports the comparison to presumptive glial progenitor cells in optic-nerve cultures, not the citing authors’ identification of every cell type in their own cultures. The source’s Results and Discussion describe A2B5-positive, GFAP-negative optic-nerve cells that become type 2 astrocytes in culture and may also become oligodendrocytes. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Thus, the sorting and transport of materials that occur in neurons must be considerably more sophisticated than that in other polarized cells (e.g., Matlin and Simons, 1984).”
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The paper’s introductory passage describes epithelial cells as polarized into apical and basolateral domains and investigates how proteins are sorted to them. The citation serves as an example of sorting in another polarized cell type; the conclusion that neuronal sorting is more sophisticated is the citing authors’ own inference. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“They are found along the full length of the dendrites, extending to the base of the dendritic growth cones (Hinds and Hinds, 1972;Skoff and Hamburger, 1974;Vaughn et al., 1974).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hinds and Hinds, 1972 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Skoff and Hamburger, 1974 source
- Supportedcites Vaughn et al., 1974 source
The description on p. 666 identifies longitudinally oriented microtubules in both proximal and more distal dendritic regions. Figure 2 (p. 667) shows a dendrite transitioning into a growth cone, supporting the paraphrase that microtubules extend along the dendrite to the cone’s base; the paper does not claim that they fill the growth cone. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“In contrast, MAP2 was preferentially localized to nerve cells; within neurons, MAP2 was present in soma and dendrites, but little or no immunostaining was detectable in axons.”
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“Hence, MAP2 appears to be preferentially expressed by neuronal cells in hippocampal cultures, just as it is in situ (Caceres et al., 1984b;Huber and Matus, 1984b).”
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“Beta-tubulin was present throughout the nerve cell, in soma, dendrites, and axon.”
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“neuron-in the perikaryon, throughout all portions of the dendrites that could be followed from the cell body, and in even the thinnest of the axons.Every process that could be seen by phase-contrast microscopy also displayed immunoreactivity for beta-tubulin.”
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“It was also present in all classes of non-neuronal cells, astrocytes, fibroblasts, and a presumptive glial progenitor cell.”
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“All were stained with antibodies specific for tubulin, but little immunoreactive MAP2 was detected in any of these classes of non-neuronal cells.”
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“With subsequent development, MAP2 staining was selectively lost from the axon so that after 1 week in vitro little or no axonal staining remained.”
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“By about the end of the first week in culture, axonal MAP2 staining had largely disappeared.”
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“Both beta-tubulin and MAP2 were present in nerve cells at the time of plating.”
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“Nearly all cells reacted with antibodies against both MAP2 and beta-tubulin (data not shown).”
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“This restricted localization of MAP2 was observed after development in vitro for times ranging from 7 to 35 d.”
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“Surprisingly, MAP2 was also initially present in both axons and dendrites, extending as far as the axonal growth cone.”
- Also stated in: § Distribution of tubulin and MAP2 early in neuronal development · plain
“immunoreactivity for MAP2 was present in all of the developing processes, including the developing axon.”
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“MAP2 staining, seen in the bright-field micrograph (C), is present along the full length of the axon as far as the base of its growth cone (gc).”
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“In addition, recent biochemical and immunocytochemical studies have established that there are molecular differences between the microtubules (Caceres et al., 1984b;Matus et al., 198 1;Vallee, 1982) and neurofilaments (Hirokawa et al., 1984;Shaw et al., 198 1) in different regions of a neuron, and in different classes of neurons (Goldstein et al., 1983).”
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- Not matchedcites Caceres et al., 1984b
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- Not matchedcites Matus et al., 198 1
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- Supportedcites Vallee, 1982 source
Vallee is cited for the microtubule part of the sentence, not for neurofilaments or differences between classes of neurons, which have separate citations. The paper reports a fivefold difference in MAP 2 relative to tubulin between gray- and white-matter microtubules and, in the discussion (p. 441), relates this to preferential localization in dendrites rather than axons. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“In this regard, microtubules are apt to be especially important because they arise early in neuronal development, usually much before neurofilaments (Pachter and Liem, 1984;Peters and Vaughn, 1967;Shaw et al., 1985), and because they have been implicated in a variety of cellular events, including the outgrowth of neuronal processes and the transport of materials within axons and dendrites.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Pachter and Liem, 1984 source
- Supportedcites Peters and Vaughn, 1967 source
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- Not matchedcites Shaw et al., 1985
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“In a pheochromocytoma cell line (PC12), neurite outgrowth induced by NGF is accompanied by a selective induction of MAP 1 (Greene et al., 1983).”
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- Supportedcites Greene et al., 1983 source
The Introduction (p. 76) states that NGF causes neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells and selectively induces a protein corresponding to a subspecies of MAP1. The Discussion (pp. 81–82) identifies the induced protein as MAP1 rather than MAP2 and describes its induction alongside neurite outgrowth; it also notes that induction can occur without neurites forming. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“By contrast, MAP1 appears to be present in both axons and dendrites (Bloom et al., 1984;Huber and Matus, 1984b).”
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- Supportedcites Bloom et al., 1984 source
The paper states on p. 328 that MAP 1A is present in identifiable axons and identifiable dendrites. The Fig. 7 caption (p. 325) also identifies MAP 1A in both the axons and dendrites of Purkinje cells. (LLM, conf=0.95)
- Not matchedcites Huber and Matus, 1984b
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“This is consistent with its preferential distribution in gray matter, as has been shown biochemically (Vallee, 1982).”
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Vallee, 1982 source
The Results section ('Isolation of Microtubules from White and Gray Matter,' Fig. 6, pp. 439–440) reports a fivefold higher MAP 2-to-tubulin ratio in gray-matter than white-matter microtubules. The Discussion (pp. 440–441) explicitly describes MAP 2 as more concentrated in gray matter microtubules, supporting the cited biochemical finding. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Several lines of evidence indicate that the various components of the neuronal cytoskeleton are crucial for the differentiation, elaboration, and maintenance of axons and dendrites (for reviews, see Lasek et al., 1983;Solomon, 1981;Solomon and Zurn, 198 1).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lasek et al., 1983 source
- Partly supportedcites Solomon, 1981 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The opening discussion (p. 547) reports that disrupting microtubules or microfilaments inhibits extension of axonlike neurites in cultured cells of neuronal origin, and says three cytoskeletal components may participate in the assumption and loss of asymmetric shape. This supports a role in neurite elaboration and retention, but the paper's qualified discussion does not establish that these components are crucial for the differentiation, elaboration, and maintenance of both axons and dendrites generally. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Different classes of microtubules appear to contain different isotypes of the tubulin subunits (Gazes and Bamstable, 1982;Gazes and Sweadner, 1981;Moura Neto et al., 1983), and these different microtubules appear to be compartmentalized within neurons (Cumming et al., 1983).”
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- Not matchedcites Gazes and Bamstable, 1982
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Moura Neto et al. is cited for the first clause, not the later claim about compartmentalization. The Results section ('Tubulin heterogeneity in virtually pure neuronal cells') and Discussion show multiple tubulin isoforms in neuronal cultures, but do not establish that distinct classes of microtubules contain different isotypes. The Introduction explicitly leaves open whether tubulin heterogeneity reflects different microtubules within individual cells or differences among cells; page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Rings of microtubules have been observed in the growth cones of sensory neurons in culture (Tsui et al., 1983).”
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“An analogous situation occurs in dorsal root ganglion cells, where there are differences in the structure and transport of cytoskeletal elements in the peripheral and central branches of the axon (Mori et al., 1979;Smith, 1973;Wujek and Lasek, 1983;Zenker et al., 1975).”
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- Supportedcites Mori et al., 1979 source
The Abstract (p. 174) compares cytoskeletal polypeptides in the peripheral and central branches of adult rat dorsal root ganglion axons. It reports differences in transport rates and amounts, as well as a higher tubulins-to-triplet ratio in the peripheral branch, supporting the claim about transport and cytoskeletal composition. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Smith, 1973 source
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“In contrast, MAP2 was preferentially localized to nerve cells; within neurons, MAP2 was present in soma and dendrites, but little or no immunostaining was detectable in axons.”
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“Both perikarya and dendrites were intensely immunoreactive for MAP2, but little or no reactivity was observed in any of the axonal processes.”
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“The dendrites are thick at the base, taper with increasing distance from the cell body, branch in Y-shaped angles, and are relatively short (roughly loo-250 Mm long at this stage of development).”
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“In cultures that have been maintained for l-5 weeks in vitro, the distinctive appearance of axons and dendrites is readily apparent by LM.”
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“In flattened regions of the cell, the MAP2 staining could sometimes be seen to have a filamentous character.For example, in the neuron shown in Figure 5D, the MAP2 appears to be associated with filamentous structures that form a ring within the body of the growth cone.”
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“The loss in MAP2 staining appears to occur in a proximal-to-distal direction, with axonal staining persisting for the longest time in the region of the growth cone.”
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“Immunoreactivity for MAP2 at the origin of the axon was also seen following formaldehyde or methanol fixation and persisted at later developmental stages, after MAP2 staining of the distal axon had disappeared.”
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“Within a day after plating, most neurons had begun to extend processes, as shown in Figure 4. Typically these included one major process, which at this stage was 50-100 pm in length, and several, much shorter, minor processes (see Banker and Cowan, 1977).”
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“This was also true following culture for 2 d, when MAP2 immunoreactivity could be followed to the tips of axons as far as 150 pm from the cell bodies.”
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“It is also significant that MAP2 is preferentially expressed by neurons and becomes preferentially localized to neuronal dendrites in dissociated cell culture, where cell<ell interactions are greatly disrupted.”
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“Beta-tubulin appears to be uniformly distributed in the axonal and dendritic processes of hippocampal neurons and is present as well in all of the classes of non-neuronal cells found in these cultures.”
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“In hippocampal neurons in culture, immunoreactivity for beta-tubulin appeared to be uniformly distributed throughout the cell (Fig. 4B).All of the processes, both axons and dendrites, were from the outset heavily stained following exposure to antibodies against beta-tubulin.”
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“Vimentin filaments largely disappear from hippocampal neurons during the first week in culture, which roughly parallels the period when MAP2 becomes restricted to dendrites.”
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“This is just what we have observed (see Fig. 6): the parent segment and the branch that maintains a dendritic character contain MAP2, while the other, axonal, branch does not.”
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“In dissociated-cell cultures prepared from.the.embryonic rat hippocampus, neurons establish both axons and dendrites, which differ in geometry, in ultrastructure, and in synaptic polarity.”
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“Most important, they establish two distinct classes of processes that can be identified as axons and dendrites based on their geometry, their ultrastructural features, and their synaptic polarity (Banker and Cowan, 1979;Bartlett and Banker, 1984a, b).”
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- Not matchedcites Bartlett and Banker, 1984a, b
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“It has been shown by immunofluorescence microscopy that alpha-tubulin is also present in all of the neuronal processes that develop from hippocampal neurons in culture (Shaw et al., 1985).”
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“Identical results were obtained with both MAP2-specific monoclonal antibodies.”
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“Among the lower molecular weight MAPS, there is recent evidence that the “tau” proteins are also differentially distributed (Binder et al., 1984b, Tytell et al., 1984).”
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“For example, immunocytochemical studies show that MAP2, one of the two classes of high-molecular-weight MAPS (HMW-MAPS), is preferentially associated with dendritic microtubules (Caceres et al., 1984b;DeCamilli et al., 1984;Huber and Matus, 1984a).”
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- Not matchedcites DeCamilli et al., 1984
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- Not matchedcites Huber and Matus, 1984a
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“Bemhardt and Matus (1982) have shown that HMW-MAPS are present during the initial phases of dendritic development in cerebellar Purkinje cells.”
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“In contrast, the H subunit of neurofilaments (200 kDa) is present in some of the axons that develop in culture, as shown by immunocytochemistry, but is undetectable in the dendrites (Shaw et al., 1985).”
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“We have recently shown that the axons and dendrites that form in culture also differ in the molecular composition of their cytoskeletons.MAP2 is restricted to the soma and dendritic processes, as it is in the hippocampus in situ (Caceres et al., 1984a).”
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“The binding specificity of each clone was examined by solid-phase-enzyme-linked immunoassay, and cross-reactivity to other proteins was tested by reacting the antibodies with electroblots of rat hippocampus or cerebellum.”
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“Taken collectively these results suggest an important role for MAPS in neuronal development, but because of the different model systems and experimental approaches used, a clear picture of the function MAPS play has not yet emerged.”
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“Other studies have shown that HMW-MAPS appear only in differentiated neuroblastoma cells (Izant and Macintosh, 1980;Olmsted and Lyon, 198 1) and that the biochemical composition of the MAPS changes profoundly during brain development (Binder et al., 1984a;Burgoyne and Cumming, 1984;Francon et al., 1982;Mareck et al., 1980).”
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- Not matchedcites Izant and Macintosh, 1980
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- Not matchedcites Olmsted and Lyon, 198 1
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- Not matchedcites Binder et al., 1984a
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“Cultures treated identically except for omission of the primary antibody or pretreated with an excess of purified antigen served as controls.”
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“EM has shown that these processes contain ribosomes, exhibit spines, and are exclusively postsynaptic (Bartlett and Banker, 1984b).”
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- Not matchedcites Bartlett and Banker, 1984b
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“It has previously been shown that co-culture of hip-pocampal neurons with astroglial cells greatly enhances neuronal survival (Banker, 1980).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Banker, 1980 source
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“Axonal processes are long, thin, and quite uniform in diameter.They intersect one another, fasciculate, and form an extensive plexus, so that individual axons cannot be distinguished from small fascicles by LM and axons cannot be followed to their cells of origin.At the electron-microscopic level, the axons lack ribosomes and are exclusively presynaptic (Bartlett and Banker, 1984b).”
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“Some of the regional differences in microtubules occur early in neuronal development (Bemhardt and Matus, 1982).”
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- Not matchedcites Bemhardt and Matus, 1982
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“Biochemical studies have shown that MAP2 is present in the rat cerebellum, telencephalon, and thalamus on postnatal Day 10, the earliest stage yet examined (Binder et al., 1984a;Burgoyne and Cumming, 1984).”
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- Not matchedcites Burgoyne and Cumming, 1984
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“MAPS are present in cerebellar Purkinje cells as early as 3 d after birth (Bernhardt and Matus, 1982).”
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- Not matchedcites Bernhardt and Matus, 1982
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“The presence of these proteins so soon after plating almost certainly indicates that they were present in situ, and hence that MAP2 appears very early in neuronal development.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Proteins detected in neurons 30 min after plating were present in situ rather than synthesized during the 30 min after plating.
In the paper
“Although hippocampal neurons do not contain neurofilaments detectable by immunocytochemistry during the first few days in culture, many of the cells contain vimentin filaments, which are present in both developing axons and dendrites (Shaw et al., 1985).”
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- Not matchedcites Shaw et al., 1985
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“Our observations show that the compartmentalization of MAP2 immunoreactivity occurs in an unexpected way: MAP2 is not selectively excluded from the axon at early stages of axonal outgrowth, but rather is selectively lost from the axon following an initial period when its distribution is uniform throughout the cell.”
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“Immunocytochemical studies us-ing a polyclonal antibody that recognizes both MAP 1 and MAP2 have detected these proteins in cerebellar Purkinje cells on postnatal Day 3, roughly 10 d after Purkinje cell generation; earlier stages were not examined (Bernhardt and Matus, 1982).”
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- Not matchedcites Bernhardt and Matus, 1982
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“In this regard neurons are quite different from epithelial cells, which become polarized only under culture conditions that permit the establishment of intercellular junctions (Imhof et al., 1983;Ojakian and Herzlinger, 1984;Sabatini et al., 1983).”
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“Bemhardt and Matus (1982) have reported that, in the case of cerebellar Purkinje cells, tubulin immunoreactivity cannot be detected at early stages of dendritic outgrowth.”
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“Sequential observation of individual cells has established that retraction of some axonal processes does occur during this stage of axonal development, although many of the initial axons do persist (Banker, unpublished observations).”
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“Sequential photography of individual cells during the first week in culture has shown that the axonal arborization arises by continued growth of the major process while many of the minor processes persist to become the definitive dendrites (Banker, unpublished observations).”
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- Not matchedcites Banker, unpublished observations
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“This staining was not attributable solely to unpolymerized tubulin.Immunofluorescence observations clearly revealed fibrillar staining in the flattened regions from which the dendrites arise, and tubulin immunoreactivity was retained in the developing dendrites following extraction with Triton X-100 under conditions that remove unpolymerized cytoskel-eta1 subunits but preserve microtubules.”
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“At later stages of development, MAP2 is preferentially localized to dendrites, but there appears to be more staining of axons than is seen in the mature brain (Frankfurter et al., 1983).”
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“In this regard, Purkinje cells appear to be excep-tional, since microtubules are a prominent element in the developing dendrites of nearly all other types of neurons that have been studied (Miller and Peters, 1981;Peters and Feldman, 1973).”
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- Not matchedcites Miller and Peters, 1981
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“Since the microtubules in axons and dendrites are different, the two processes arising at such a branch point must contain molecularly distinct populations of microtubules.”
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“Even if axonal and dendritic microtubules arise from two different somatic organizing centers, as has been proposed (Lasek and Brady, 1981), some additional mechanism would still be required to segregate the two classes of microtubules at such a branch point and to direct the transport of materials produced in the cell body into one or the other branch.”
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“Other workers have since demonstrated the presence of tubulin in Purkinje cell dendrites at these stages of development by immunocytochemistry, using several different monoclonal antibodies (Burgoyne and Cumming, 1984;Frankfurter et al., 1983)”
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The paper relies on this without support.
Cell interactions are greatly restricted under the culture conditions used.
“even under culture conditions in which cell interactions are greatly restricted.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Proteins detected in neurons 30 min after plating were present in situ rather than synthesized during the 30 min after plating.
“The presence of these proteins so soon after plating almost certainly indicates that they were present in situ”
The paper relies on this without support.
The distribution of MAP2 in situ has not yet been studied at comparably early stages.
“The distribution of MAP2 in situ has not yet been studied at comparably early stages.”
The paper relies on this without support.
MAP2 is bound to the cytoskeleton in the developing dendrites of hippocampal neurons.
“the MAP2, which is bound to the cytoskeleton in the developing dendrites of hippocampal neurons, is not associated with microtubules.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Caceres, A., Banker, G., & Binder, L.
- Affiliations
- Albany Medical College (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 1986-03-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 714-722
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6568475
- OpenAlex
- W1604664180
- Semantic Scholar
- 3a607142ce3477d35f9a8980c73254bdc41d664f
- Cited by
- 367
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 7.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
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- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (NS12333)
- Fogarty International Center
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-12333, NS 17112)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
- Keywords
- beta-tubulin, MAP2, hippocampal neurons, neuronal polarity, axon development, dendrite formation, axonal growth cones, cytoskeleton, neuronal differentiation, glial progenitor cells, astrocytes, fibroblasts
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Axons, Dendrites, Female, Hippocampus, Histocytochemistry, Immunologic Techniques, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Neurons, Pregnancy, Tissue Distribution, Tubulin, Rats
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