PMID: 8612322Nov 21, 1995Paper

Developmental changes in the inducibility of fos-like immunoreactivity in primary embryonic spinal cord cultures

Brain Research. Developmental Brain Research
D von AgostonD E Brenneman

Abstract

The immediate early gene (IEG) transcription factor c-fos coordinates changes in the pattern of long term gene expression and, therefore, it may be involved in mediating epigenetic control during neurodevelopment. We used pharmacological treatments mimicking various environmental and intracellular signals and assessed the inducibility of fos-like immunoreactivity (LIR) at various stages of neurodifferentiation in a primary embryonic spinal cord culture system by immunohistochemistry. Constitutive fos LIR exclusively found in neurons, was driven by the onset and extent of spontaneous electrical activity, as it was blockable by tetrodotoxin (TTX) at all developmental stages. Phorbol myristate 13 acetate (PMA) increased the number of fos-LIR cells equally effectively at all stages, but the predominant cellular localization of fos-LIR changed through ontogeny. The effect of veratridine, kainate and serum-derived factors in significantly inducing fos-LIR was restricted to the earliest developmental stage (4 days in vitro; DIV) investigated; whereas forskolin, the GABAA antagonist picrotoxin and NMDA failed to induce fos-LIR at this stage, but increased the number of fos-LIR neurons at later stages. Dihydropyridine agonists of the vo...Continue Reading

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