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- Title
Control of Spontaneous Ca<sup>2+</sup> Transients Is Critical for Neuronal Maturation in the Developing Neocortex.
- Authors
Yuki Bando; Katsumasa Irie; Takushi Shimomura; Hiroki Umeshima; Yuki Kushida; Mineko Kengaku; Yoshinori Fujiyoshi; Tomoo Hirano; Yoshiaki Tagawa
- Abstract
Neural activity plays roles in the later stages of development of cortical excitatory neurons, including dendritic and axonal arborization, remodeling, and synaptogenesis. However, its role in earlier stages, such as migration and dendritogenesis, is less clear. Here we investigated roles of neural activity in the maturation of cortical neurons, using calcium imaging and expression of prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel, NaChBac. Calcium imaging experiments showed that postmigratory neurons in layer II/III exhibited more frequent spontaneous calcium transients than migrating neurons. To test whether such an increase of neural activity may promote neuronal maturation, we elevated the activity of migrating neurons by NaChBac expression. Elevation of neural activity impeded migration, and induced premature branching of the leading process before neurons arrived at layer II/III. Many NaChBac-expressing neurons in deep cortical layers were not attached to radial glial fibers, suggesting that these neurons had stopped migration. Morphological and immunohistochemical analyses suggested that branched leading processes of NaChBac-expressing neurons differentiated into dendrites. Our results suggest that developmental control of spontaneous calcium transients is critical for maturation of cortical excitatory neurons in vivo: keeping cellular excitability low is important for migration, and increasing spontaneous neural activity may stop migration and promote dendrite formation.
- Publication
Cerebral Cortex, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
1047-3211
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cercor/bhu180