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Lecture 10 Neuronal migration Flashcards

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What determines the fate of neurones

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The TF of neurones along the DV and AP axis

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What are the two types of neuronal migration?

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  • radial - move to outer layers

- tangential - sideways movement

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Where does neuronal migration occur

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Throughout the developing brain

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What happens in the first part of radial migration?

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Interkinetic Nuclear Migrations in the neuroepithelium

Here the nuclei are moving, not the cells

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Describe Interkinetic Nuclear Migrations in the neuroepithelium

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One cell thick neuroepithelium undergoes interkinetic nuclear migration
The nuclei move up and down to give the appearance of multiple layers = pseudostratified

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Describe position of nuclei at different stages of cell cycle

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Up G1 (towards pial outer layer)
Down G2
Basal S (pial layer)
Apical M

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Define apical in neuroscience

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This means inside i.e. ventricular surface

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what type of division occurs early on?

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symmetrical - two daughter cells have equal potential to act as progenitors and expand neuroepithelium

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what type of division occurs later on?

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asymmetrical - one neuronal progenitor and one radial glial cell (shape change)

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What is important to remember about radial glial cell division

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In late stages they can still undergo symmetrical divisions

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What does the plane of division determine

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The localisation of assymetric localised cytoplasmic components in daughter cells

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What happens in the part 2 of radial migration?

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Mature neurons accumulate over time in the layers above the ventricular zone by radially migrating

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What does part 2 form

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Layered structures e.g. cortex and cerebellum

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Describe layers formed from part 2 inside to out

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Ventricular surface
VZ
Mantle zone
Pial surface

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How do we know this?

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Birth dating to follow neurogenesis/migration

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Describe process of birth dating

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•Tritiated (3H) thymidine incorporates into newly synthesized DNA
•Injected into pregnant females it incorporates into cells in S phase
•However, only those cells in their final division retain the label over time (so are often called label-retaining cells)
-> This ‘birth-dates’ these cells, allowing us to trace their migration to their final destination over time

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Birth dating results

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Neurones born at different times migrated to different areas

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What can be used instead of 3H

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BrdU

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What layers do cells born early go to?

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lower layers of the cortex

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What layers do cells born later go to?

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upper layers of the cortex

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What does each layer express

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A specific set of TF so neurons born at different times have different fates

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Do cortical neuronal fates change?

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Yes

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How do we know fates change?

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Classical ‘heterochronic’ transplants test whether the fates of neuronal precursors at different ages is fixed or plastic

  • > found that early precursors can change fate
  • > this ability is lost as they age
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How do we know early precursors change fate

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When transplanted into an older host they adopt the fate of the cells born at that time

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How do we know late precursors are fixed
When transplanted into an early host they adopt position that they would have been
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What do mutations affecting migration cause?
Lissencephaly Smooth brain - agyria No sulci or gyri Affects neuronal migration of deeper layers
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What is Lissencephaly associated with
Mutations in MT genes = TBA1a - alpha tubulin = TUBB2B - beta tubulin LIS1, DCX MT assoc proteins
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What occurs in the 1st migrations
Cells delineate form the boundaries of the cortical layers
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The cells that first leave the ventricular zone form what?
Preplate
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What cells make up the preplate?
- Cajal Retzius (CR) cells in marginal zone | - Subplate neurons
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The cells leaving the ventricular zone later form?
Cortical plate which forms the many layers of the cortex
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What are subplate neurons important for?
Play an important part in guiding incoming thalamic axons They eventually die
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What are Cajal-Retzius cells?
first post-mitotic cells to appear in cortex
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Loss of what protein in CR cells disrupt layering?
Reelin
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How visualise CR cells
GFP - can see change shape and die in post-natal period
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What did Reeler mouse mutants show
Mutation in Reelin gene which encodes ECM protein in CR cells KO led to failure of CR and Subplate cells to separate --> migrating cells didn't stop but continued to migrate --> Lissencephaly
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Over time what happens to radial glia
Depleted
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However, what do some radial glial cells become?
Adult neural stem cells
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What are adult neural stem cells?
Astrocyte-like cells that can produce new neurons in adults
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What are the two major zones of radial glia stem cells? What neurons are produced in these zones?
- subventricular zone of 4th ventricle --> olfactory neurons that migrate to rostral migratory system in olfactory bulb - dentate gyrus of hippocampus --> granule neurons
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Where to intermediate progenitors accumulate and produce
Subventricular zone Upper layer neurons = VZ, SVZ, CP, MZ
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What are granule neurons for
Spatial memory
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What happens in part 3 of neuronal migration?
Tangential migration
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What is tangential migration?
mixing it up - occurs at a right angle to radial migration | Key neuronal subpopulations migrate in from other regions
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Where do inhibitory interneurons of cortex come from?
they tangentially migrate from the subpallium and migrate tangentially over large distances
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Three examples of inhibitory interneurones and where they migrate to
GABAergic --> cortex Dopaminergic --> olfactory bulb Cholinergic --> striatum
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Other methods used to trace migration
Quail into chick as bright nucelus Inject DNA label and follow fate Genetic editing to turn on and off marker at diff stages
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What are the 3 layers of the cerebellum?
Granule layer (axons) --> Purkinje cell layer (output neurons) --> molecular layer
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Which part of brain has unusual migrations
Cerebellum | = root of rhombencephalon = hindbrain = deeply folded, many neurones
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What is the equivalent of neural crest cells in the hindbrain?
Rhombic lip
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What is important about neural folds of rhombic lip
Never fully fuse to give rhombus shape of rhombencephalon
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What are the two daughter cells of rhombic lip cells?
- anterior rhombic lip cells (superior) | - posterior rhombic lip cells (inferior)
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Where do anterior rhombic lip cells migrate? What will they become?
- migrate tangentially across anterior HB to form the External Germinal Layer (EGL) of the cerebellum - EGL differentiate into granule neurons
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Where do posterior rhombic lip cells migrate? What will they become?
migrate tangentially to the ventral hindbrain | -> pontine nuclei and inferior olive
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Why is migration unusual in hindbrain?
Granule neuron precursors do it backwards - there is early tangential migration of rhombic lip cells before radial migration - proliferation zone on outside of cell (pial not VZ)
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Describe the layers formed from rhombic lip
Ext germinal layer --> ML --> PCL --> Int germinal layer
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What is important about EGL
Disappears as pool of progenitors deplete and differentiate into neurons that abseil into inner GL
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What is the production of rhombic lip cells regulated by?
ATOH1 (atonal-like TF)
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What would happen if there was no ATOH1?
- no foliation - no internal granular layer - no pontine nuclei
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ATOH1 mutations can cause what?
Human hypoplasia = small cerebellar | May affect pons too showing role in A and P dorsal lip
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What fibres release sonic Hh?
Purkinje fibres
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What does sonic Hh in the external granular layer stimulate?
Mitosis
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Increased sonic Hh in external granular layer leads to?
Increased lobulation - child tumour
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Reelin gene in humans mutation causes
RELN --> lissencephaly in cerebral cortex + cerebellar hypoplasia KO disrupts PCL i.e. more dispersed --> ataxia
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Where is Reelin expressed
Granule neurons and above/below Purkinje cell layer

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