Activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein Arc is targeted to dendrites and coexpressed with mu-opioid receptors in postnatal rat caudate-putamen nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience Research
Hong Wang, V M Pickel

Abstract

Dendritic expression of the activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) is dramatically enhanced by increased synaptic activity in adult brain. We used immunocytochemical electron microscopy to determine whether the subcellular localization of Arc in developing dendrites corresponds to the peak period of synaptogenesis in the postnatal rat caudate-putamen nucleus (CPN). The distribution was compared with that of mu-opioid receptors (MORs), whose localization in dendritic spines closely parallels excitatory synapse formation during postnatal development (Wang et al. [2003] Neuroscience 118:695-708). Sections were processed for immunocytochemical detection of antisera against Arc or MORs at the beginning (postnatal day 15; P15) and the end (P30) of the peak period of synaptogenesis in rat CPN. At P15, immunolabeling for Arc showed a punctate distribution in the cytoplasm of dendritic shafts, some of which was associated with polyribosomes. In some spiny dendrites, Arc immunoreactivity was more intensely localized in putative spines than in their parental dendrites, whereas, in other spiny dendrites, Arc labeling was restricted in the shafts. Many dendritic shafts and spines also showed immunoreactivity for MORs, alth...Continue Reading

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