Nerve growth factor increases choline acetyltransferase but not survival or fiber outgrowth of cultured fetal septal cholinergic neurons - PubMed (original) (raw)
Nerve growth factor increases choline acetyltransferase but not survival or fiber outgrowth of cultured fetal septal cholinergic neurons
F Hefti et al. Neuroscience. 1985 Jan.
Abstract
Neurons dissociated from the septal area of fetal rat brains were grown in culture. Cholinergic neurons were identified by immunocytochemical visualization of choline acetyltransferase and cytochemical demonstration of acetyl cholinesterase. Choline acetyltransferase immunocytochemistry stained cell bodies and proximal processes while acetylcholinesterase cytochemistry visualized the entire neuron. Choline acetyltransferase-positive neurons could only be identified in cultures grown under conditions that produced the maximal choline acetyltransferase activity, measured biochemically. All of the choline acetyltransferase-positive neurons were double stained for acetylcholinesterase while only 6% of the acetylcholinesterase-positive cells were choline acetyltransferase negative in these cultures. These results indicate that acetylcholinesterase is a reliable marker for cholinergic cells in cultures of dissociated septal neurons. Being the more sensitive method, acetylcholinesterase staining was therefore used to identify cholinergic cells in cultures with choline acetyltransferase levels insufficient for immunocytochemical visualization of this enzyme. Addition of nerve growth factor or antibodies to nerve growth factor to the medium did not affect the number of cholinergic neurons surviving in culture. Furthermore, nerve growth factor and anti-nerve growth factor failed to influence the general morphological appearance and the number of processes of these neurons. However, nerve growth factor elevated the biochemically measured activity of choline acetyltransferase up to two-fold. The nerve growth factor-mediated increase in choline acetyltransferase activity was dose dependent with an ED50 of 10 ng/ml (4 X 10(-10) M). The increase was highly specific for nerve growth factor. It was blocked by anti-nerve growth factor, and epidermal growth factor, insulin and other control proteins failed to exert a similar effect. Nerve growth factor had to be present for at least 3 days in the culture medium to increase choline acetyltransferase activity, suggesting that the increase was due to an elevated choline acetyltransferase synthesis rather than to an activation of the enzyme.
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