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Development, Vol 117, Issue 4 1377-1384, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
M Fitzgerald, GC Kwiat, J Middleton and A Pini
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK.
Organotypic culture of embryonic rat lumbar spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia has been used to demonstrate an inhibitory effect of ventral spinal cord on neurite growth from dorsal root ganglion explants. When dorsal root ganglion explants from 14-15 day old embryos were cultured alone or in close proximity to a dorsal cord explant, the pattern of dorsal root ganglion neurite outgrowth was typically radial. However, when E14-15 dorsal root ganglion explants were cocultured for 22-24 hours in proximity to a ventral spinal cord explant from the same embryo, few, if any, dorsal root ganglion neurites grew in the direction of the ventral cord explant. This inhibitory effect appeared to be developmentally regulated; it was diminished or absent in cocultures prepared from 18 day old embryos. In contrast, in cocultures of dorsal cord and ventral cord explants from E14-15 embryos, dorsal cord neurites grew abundantly toward the ventral cord explant suggesting that the inhibition is not likely to be due to a nonspecific neurotoxic effect and that the activity responsible selectively inhibits dorsal root ganglion neurite outgrowth. We conclude that a diffusible, primary afferent inhibitory factor(s) produced by embryonic ventral horn may be responsible for the inhibition. Our results are discussed with respect to the possible involvement of inhibition in the normal development of primary afferent innervation of the spinal cord.
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