期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 67, 期 12, 页码 1655-1668出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20535
关键词
Eph receptor; ephrin; tonotopy; topography; nucleus laminaris; nucleus magnocellularis
资金
- PHS HHS [NIDCD 005771, NINDS 050142] Funding Source: Medline
Auditory pathways contain orderly representations of frequency selectivity, which begin at the cochlea and are transmitted to the brainstem via topographically ordered axonal pathways. The mechanisms :that establish these tonotopic maps are not known,. Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and their ligands, the ephrins, have a demonstrated role in establishing topographic projections elsewhere in the brain, including the visual pathway. Here, we have examined the function of these proteins in the formation of auditory frequency maps. In birds, the first central auditory nucleus, n. magnocellularis (NM), projects tonotopically to laminaris (NL) on both sides of the brain. We previously showed that the Eph receptor EphA4 is expressed in a tonotopic gradient in the chick NL, with higher frequency regions showing greater expression than lower frequency regions. Here we misexpressed EphA4 in the developing auditory brainstem from embryonic day 2 (E2) through E10, when NM axons make synaptic contact with NL. We then evaluated topography along the frequency axis using both anterograde and retrograde labeling in both the ipsilateral and contralateral NM-NL pathways. We found that after misexpression, NM regions project to a significantly broader proportion of NL than in control embryos, and that both the ipsilateral map and the contralateral map show this increased divergence. These results support a role for EphA4 in establishing tonotopic projections in the auditory system, and further suggest a general role for Eph family proteins in establishing topographic maps in the nervous system. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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