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First published online 15 June 2005
doi: 10.1242/dev.01893
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1 NeuroAdaptations Group, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse
2-10, D-80804 Munich, Germany
2 Neuroscience Group, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS),
University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: osa{at}mpipsykl.mpg.de)
Accepted 9 May 2005
Hippocampal granule cells self-renew throughout life, whereas their cerebellar counterparts become post-mitotic during early postnatal development, suggesting that locally acting, tissue-specific factors may regulate the proliferative potential of each cell type. Confirming this, we show that conditioned medium from hippocampal cells (CMHippocampus) stimulates proliferation in cerebellar cultures and, vice versa, that mitosis in hippocampal cells is inhibited by CMCerebellum. The anti-proliferative effects of CMCerebellum were accompanied by increased expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21 and p27, as well as markers of neuronal maturity/differentiation. CMCerebellum was found to contain peptide-like factors with distinct anti-proliferative/differentiating and neuroprotective activities with differing chromatographic properties. Preadsorption of CMCerebellum with antisera against candidate cytokines showed that TGFß2 and BDNF could account for the major part of the anti-proliferative and pro-differentiating activities, an interpretation strengthened by studies involving treatment with purified TGFß2 and BDNF. Interference with signaling pathways downstream of TGFß and BDNF using dominant-negative forms of their respective receptors (TGFß2-RII and TRKB) or of dominant-negative forms of SMAD3 and co-SMAD4 negated the anti-proliferative/differentiating actions of CMCerebellum. Treatment with CMCerebellum caused nuclear translocation of SMAD2 and SMAD4, and also transactivated a TGFß2-responsive gene. BDNF actions were shown to depend on activation of ERK1/2 and to converge on the SMAD signaling cascade, possibly after stimulation of TGFß2 synthesis/secretion. In conclusion, our results show that the regulation of hippocampal cell fate in vitro is regulated through an interplay between the actions of BDNF and TGFß.
Key words: Neurogenesis, Apoptosis, Neuronal differentiation, Hippocampus, Cerebellum, TGFß2, BDNF, SMAD, Rat
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