Publication Date:
2009-07-11
Description:
Sensory information detected by the peripheral nervous system is represented as a topographic map in the brain. It has long been thought that the topography of the map is determined by graded positional cues that are expressed by the target. Here, we analyzed the pre-target axon sorting for olfactory map formation in mice. In olfactory sensory neurons, an axon guidance receptor, Neuropilin-1, and its repulsive ligand, Semaphorin-3A, are expressed in a complementary manner. We found that expression levels of Neuropilin-1 determined both pre-target sorting and projection sites of axons. Olfactory sensory neuron-specific knockout of Semaphorin-3A perturbed axon sorting and altered the olfactory map topography. Thus, pre-target axon sorting plays an important role in establishing the topographic order based on the relative levels of guidance molecules expressed by axons.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Imai, Takeshi -- Yamazaki, Takahiro -- Kobayakawa, Reiko -- Kobayakawa, Ko -- Abe, Takaya -- Suzuki, Misao -- Sakano, Hitoshi -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jul 31;325(5940):585-90. doi: 10.1126/science.1173596. Epub 2009 Jul 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589963" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Axons/*physiology
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Brain Mapping
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Cell Communication
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Cues
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Cyclic AMP/metabolism
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Ligands
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Mice
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Mice, Knockout
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Mice, Transgenic
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Neuroglia/physiology
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Neuropilin-1/*metabolism
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Olfactory Bulb/cytology/*physiology
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Olfactory Mucosa/cytology/physiology
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Olfactory Pathways/cytology/*physiology
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Olfactory Receptor Neurons/cytology/*physiology
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Receptors, Odorant/metabolism
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Semaphorin-3A/metabolism
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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
