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Development, Vol 117, Issue 1 401-408, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Perpendicular contact guidance of CNS neuroblasts on artificial microstructures

I Nagata, A Kawana and N Nakatsuji
Department of Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Japan.

Rodent CNS neuroblasts show parallel and perpendicular contact guidance behaviors on aligned neurite bundles in microexplant cultures (Nakatsuji, N. and Nagata, I. (1989) Development, 106, 441-447; N. I. and N. N. (1991) ibid., 112, 581-590). To test the hypothesis that the physical surface structure of the neurite bundle causes the perpendicular contact guidance, we cultured dissociated neuroblasts on quartz plates on which grating-like microstructures were fabricated by lithographic techniques. Various types of CNS neuroblasts, but not PNS neurons, oriented their processes and migrated both perpendicular and parallel to the axis of the microstructure. Perpendicular orientation was frequently observed when the microstructured grooves had depths between 0.3 micron and 0.8 micron and a width of 1 micron, which roughly mimics a tightly aligned neurite bundle. Thus, CNS neuroblasts have the ability to extend their processes and migrate perpendicular to aligned surface microstructures.


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