PMID: 9160973Apr 24, 1997Paper

Target tissue influence on somatostatin expression in the avian ciliary ganglion

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
J N Coulombe, K Kos

Abstract

Activin as a neurodifferentiation factor. Our studies of neurotransmitter expression have focused on the expression of neuropeptide transmitters in the avian ciliary ganglion (CG) and have examined the influence of choroidal vascular smooth muscle cells in regulating the differential expression of somatostatin in the CG. In these activities we have identified activin A as a potential target-derived neurodifferentiation factor that can stimulate somatostatin expression in cultured CG neurons. In cultured CG neurons, activin can stimulate the expression of somatostatin in choroid neurons, the pattern of neurotransmitter expression found in vivo, and in the ciliary neurons that would normally not express somatostatin. In vivo, mRNA transcripts of the cActR-IIA appear to be expressed by both choroid and ciliary CG neurons. This suggests that activin might serve as an instructive factor in controlling neuropeptide phenotype. For activin to serve as an instructive factor requires that activin be produced by choroid smooth-muscle target cells. Indeed, activin mRNA and activin-like immunoreactivity are found in choroid cells, in vitro. However, the lack of somatostatin expression by ciliary neurons suggests that activin is not produced...Continue Reading

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