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Development, Vol 117, Issue 2 535-541, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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MH Curfs, AA Gribnau and PJ Dederen
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
In the rat cervical spinal cord the corticospinal projection on motoneurons either direct or indirect (via interneurons) comes about postnatally making it accessible for experimental research. Therefore, the postnatal developmental changes of motoneurons and in particular their dendritic fields were examined. Motoneurons innervating the two antagonistic muscles in the distal forepaw, the m. flexor digitorum profundus and the m. extensor digitorum communis, were retrogradely labelled by intramuscular injections of cholera toxin subunit B conjugated with horseradish peroxidase in rats of various postnatal ages. Following a 48-72 hour survival period the motoneurons and their dendritic fields were studied in the seventh and eighth cervical spinal cord segments. Both the number and the position of motoneurons were found to remain constant throughout postnatal development. Extensor motoneurons were positioned dorsolaterally in the ventral horn at the border of grey and white matter, flexor motoneurons were in general medial to extensor motoneurons. The results on the dendritic field demonstrate firstly, that during postnatal development the extension of the dendrites of both flexor and extensor motoneurons changes from spreading out in all directions at postnatal day 2 to spreading in only a few, specific directions from postnatal day 21 onwards, with the restriction that both motoneuron pools follow a different time scale to achieve this. Secondly, both pools have a temporal dendritic component extending into the white matter of the lateral funiculus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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