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Development, Vol 120, Issue 6 1411-1420, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Axons arrest the migration of Schwann cell precursors

A Bhattacharyya, R Brackenbury and N Ratner
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH 45267-0521.

The neural crest gives rise to a variety of cell types including Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system. Schwann cell precursors begin to differentiate early and migrate along specific pathways in the embryo before associating with nerve trunks. To determine whether motor axons direct the migration of Schwann cell precursors along specific pathways, we tested the effect of ablating the ventral half of the neural tube, which contains motor neuron cell bodies. The ventral neural tube was removed unilaterally from lumbar regions of chicken embryos at stage 17, when neural crest cells are just beginning to migrate and before motor axons have extended out of the neural tube. At several stages after ventral tube ablation, sections of the lumbar region of these embryos were stained with anti-acetylated tubulin to label developing axons, HNK-1 to label migrating neural crest cells and 1E8 to label Schwann cell precursors. In many embryos the ablation of motor neurons was incomplete. The staining patterns in these embryos support the idea that some Schwann cells are derived from the neural tube. In embryos with complete motor neuron ablation, at stage 18, HNK-1-positive neural crest cells had migrated to normal locations in both control and ablated sides of the embryo, suggesting that motor axons or the ventral neural tube are not required for proper migration of neural crest cells. However, by stage 19, cells that were positive for HNK-1 or 1E8 were no longer seen in the region of the ventral root, nor ventral to the ventral root region. Because Schwann cell precursors require neural-derived factors for their survival in vitro, we tested whether neural crest cells that migrate to the region of the ventral root in ventral neural tube-ablated embryos then die. Nile Blue staining for dead and dying cells in ventral neural tube-ablated embryos provided no evidence for cell death at stage 18. These results suggest that motor axons arrest the migration of Schwann cell precursors during neural crest migration.


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