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FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.668408
Keywords
zebrafish; brain regeneration; optic tectum; radial glia; STAT3 signaling; transcriptome analysis
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- JSPS KAKENHI [18K14824]
- DBT (Govt. of India)
- AIST (Japan)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K14824] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Adult zebrafish have a high capacity for CNS regeneration compared to mammals, with stab wound injury inducing radial glia proliferation and differentiation into new neurons. Histological analysis showed an increase in macrophages prior to RG proliferation, with IL6/Stat3 signaling identified as the initial trigger of RG activation during optic tectum regeneration.
Adult zebrafish have many neurogenic niches and a high capacity for central nervous system regeneration compared to mammals, including humans and rodents. The majority of radial glia (RG) in the zebrafish optic tectum are quiescent under physiological conditions; however, stab wound injury induces their proliferation and differentiation into newborn neurons. Although previous studies have functionally analyzed the molecular mechanisms of RG proliferation and differentiation and have performed single-cell transcriptomic analyses around the peak of RG proliferation, the cellular response and changes in global gene expression during the early stages of tectum regeneration remain poorly understood. In this study, we performed histological analyses which revealed an increase in isolectin B4+ macrophages prior to the induction of RG proliferation. Moreover, transcriptome and pathway analyses based on differentially expressed genes identified various enriched pathways, including apoptosis, the innate immune system, cell proliferation, cytokine signaling, p53 signaling, and IL6/Jak-Stat signaling. In particular, we found that Stat3 inhibition suppressed RG proliferation after stab wound injury and that IL6 administration into cerebroventricular fluid activates RG proliferation without causing injury. Together, the findings of these transcriptomic and functional analyses reveal that IL6/Stat3 signaling is an initial trigger of RG activation during optic tectum regeneration.
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