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BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
Volume 228, Issue 3-4, Pages 907-920Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02631-0
Keywords
Anosmin-1; FGF; Dopaminergic neurons; Nigrostriatal pathway; Striosome-matrix compartments; Parkinsonism; Carotid body; Adrenal medulla
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The protein Anosmin-1 (A1) plays a crucial role in regulating the development and survival of dopaminergic neurons in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. Overexpression of A1 leads to an increase in the number of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and alters the organization of the striatum. However, A1 overexpression also results in a significant reduction in the number of dopaminergic chemosensitive carotid body glomus cells.
The development and survival of dopaminergic neurons are influenced by the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) pathway. Anosmin-1 (A1) is an extracellular matrix protein that acts as a major regulator of this signaling pathway, controlling FGF diffusion, and receptor interaction and shuttling. In particular, previous work showed that A1 overexpression results in more dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb. Prompted by those intriguing results, in this study, we investigated the effects of A1 overexpression on different populations of catecholaminergic neurons in the central (CNS) and the peripheral nervous systems (PNS). We found that A1 overexpression increases the number of dopaminergic substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) neurons and alters the striosome/matrix organization of the striatum. Interestingly, these numerical and morphological changes in the nigrostriatal pathway of A1-mice did not confer an altered susceptibility to experimental MPTP-parkinsonism with respect to wild-type controls. Moreover, the study of the effects of A1 overexpression was extended to different dopaminergic tissues associated with the PNS, detecting a significant reduction in the number of dopaminergic chemosensitive carotid body glomus cells in A1-mice. Overall, our work shows that A1 regulates the development and survival of dopaminergic neurons in different nuclei of the mammalian nervous system.
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