A critical period for the specification of motor pools in the chick lumbosacral spinal cord - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1996 Feb;122(2):659-69.

doi: 10.1242/dev.122.2.659.

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A critical period for the specification of motor pools in the chick lumbosacral spinal cord

M P Matise et al. Development. 1996 Feb.

Abstract

When 3-4 segments of the chick lumbosacral neural tube are reversed in the anterior-posterior axis at stage 15 (embryonic day 2.5), the spinal cord develops with a reversed organization of motoneurons projecting to individual muscles in the limb (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser (1980) J. Physiol. 302, 581-602). This finding indicated that motoneuron precursors or components of their local environment were specified with respect to target by stage 15. To identify the timing of this event, we have now assessed motoneuron projections after equivalent neural tube reversals at earlier stages of development. Lumbosacral neural tube segments 1-3 (+/- one segment cranial or caudal) were reversed in the anterior-posterior axis at stages 13 and 14 (embryonic day 2). The locations of motoneurons innervating two thigh muscles, the sartorius and femorotibialis, were mapped via retrograde horseradish peroxidase labeling at stages 35-36 (embryonic days 9-10). In a sample of embryos, counts were made of the total number of motoneurons in the lateral motor columns of reversed segments. The majority of motoneurons projecting to the sartorius and femorotibialis were in a normal position within the spinal cord. Segmental differences in motor column size were also similar to normal. These observations indicate that positional cues external to the LS neural tube can affect motoneuron commitment and number at stages 13-14. Since these observations stand in contrast to results following stage 15 reversals, we conclude that regional differences related to motoneuron target identity are normally specified or stabilized within the anterior LS neural tube between stages 14 and 15. To examine the role of the notochord in this process, neural tube reversals were performed at stages 13-14 as described above, except that the underlying notochord was also reversed. Projections to the sartorius and femorotibialis muscles did not differ significantly from those in embryos with neural tube reversals alone, indicating that the notochord is not the source of cues for target identity at stages 13-14.

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