Publication Date:
2012-12-12
Description:
How neural circuits associated with sexually dimorphic organs are differentially assembled during development is unclear. Here, we report a sexually dimorphic pattern of mouse mammary gland sensory innervation and the mechanism of its formation. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), emanating from mammary mesenchyme and signaling through its receptor TrkB on sensory axons, is required for establishing mammary gland sensory innervation of both sexes at early developmental stages. Subsequently, in males, androgens promote mammary mesenchymal expression of a truncated form of TrkB, which prevents BDNF-TrkB signaling in sensory axons and leads to a rapid loss of mammary gland innervation independent of neuronal apoptosis. Thus, sex hormone regulation of a neurotrophic factor signal directs sexually dimorphic axonal growth and maintenance, resulting in generation of a sex-specific neural circuit.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826154/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826154/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Yin -- Rutlin, Michael -- Huang, Siyi -- Barrick, Colleen A -- Wang, Fan -- Jones, Kevin R -- Tessarollo, Lino -- Ginty, David D -- DE019440/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- EY014998/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- NS34814/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P30 NS050274/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Dec 7;338(6112):1357-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1228258.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23224557" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Androgens/metabolism
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Animals
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Axons/*physiology
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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/genetics/*metabolism
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Female
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Male
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Mammary Glands, Animal/*embryology/*innervation
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Receptor, trkB/genetics/metabolism
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*Sex Characteristics
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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