Journal
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 74, Issue 23, Pages 4369-4385Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2589-7
Keywords
Hippocampal neurons; Dendrite arborization; BDNF; Cytosolic PSD-95 interactor (cypin); Sholl analysis; Local stimulation
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- National Science Foundation [IOS-0919747, IOS-1353724]
- National Institutes of Health under the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIGMS [5 T32 GM008339]
- New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research [CBIR13FEL002]
- Predoctoral GAANN Fellowship from the DOE [P200A150131]
- Rutgers University
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Proper communication among neurons depends on an appropriately formed dendritic arbor, and thus, aberrant changes to the arbor are implicated in many pathologies, ranging from cognitive disorders to neurodegenerative diseases. Due to the importance of dendritic shape to neuronal network function, the morphology of dendrites is tightly controlled and is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. In this work, we examine how brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most well-studied extrinsic regulators of dendritic branching, affects the arbor when it is applied locally via microbeads to cultures of hippocampal neurons. We found that local application of BDNF increases both proximal and distal branching in a time-dependent manner and that local BDNF application attenuates pruning of dendrites that occurs with neuronal maturation. Additionally, we examined whether cytosolic PSD-95 interactor (cypin), an intrinsic regulator of dendritic branching, plays a role in these changes and found strong evidence for the involvement of cypin in BDNF-promoted increases in dendrites after 24 but not 48 h of application. This current study extends our previous work in which we found that bath application of BDNF for 72 h, but not shorter times, increases proximal dendrite branching and that this increase occurs through transcriptional regulation of cypin. Moreover, this current work illustrates how dendritic branching is regulated differently by the same growth factor depending on its spatial localization, suggesting a novel pathway for modulation of dendritic branching locally.
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