期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
卷 27, 期 1, 页码 32-46出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.09.002
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- 21st Century COE
- Global COE
- MEXT
- PRESTO from JST
- HFSP
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Takeda Medical Research Foundation
- Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders
- Kurata Memorial Hitachi Science and Technology Foundation
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Yamada Science Foundation
- Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology
- Santen Pharmaceutical
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22116001] Funding Source: KAKEN
Although the mechanisms underlying the spatial pattern formation of sensory maps have been extensively investigated, those triggering sensory map formation during development are largely unknown. Here we show that the birth of pups instructively and selectively regulates the initiation of barrel formation in the somatosensory cortex by reducing serotonin concentration. We found that preterm birth accelerated barrel formation, whereas it did not affect either barreloid formation or barrel structural plasticity. We also found that serotonin was selectively reduced soon after birth and that the reduction of serotonin was triggered by birth. The reduction of serotonin was necessary and sufficient for the effect of birth on barrel formation. Interestingly, the regulatory mechanisms described here were also found to regulate eye-specific segregation in the visual system, suggesting that they are utilized in various brain regions. Our results shed light on roles of birth and serotonin in sensory map formation.
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