Title |
Reciprocal Regulation of Axonal Filopodia and Outgrowth during Neuromuscular Junction Development
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0044759 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Pan P. Li, Jie J. Zhou, Min Meng, Raghavan Madhavan, H. Benjamin Peng |
Abstract |
The assembly of the vertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is initiated when nerve and muscle first contact each other by filopodial processes which are thought to enable close interactions between the synaptic partners and facilitate synaptogenesis. We recently reported that embryonic Xenopus spinal neurons preferentially extended filopodia towards cocultured muscle cells and that basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) produced by muscle activated neuronal FGF receptor 1 (FGFR1) to induce filopodia and favor synaptogenesis. Intriguingly, in an earlier study we found that neurotrophins (NTs), a different set of target-derived factors that act through Trk receptor tyrosine kinases, promoted neuronal growth but hindered presynaptic differentiation and NMJ formation. Thus, here we investigated how bFGF- and NT-signals in neurons jointly elicit presynaptic changes during the earliest stages of NMJ development. |
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