title: Controlled targeting of tyrosine hydroxylase protein toward processes of locus coeruleus neurons during postnatal development.
abstract: Dendrites of locus coeruleus (LC) neurons laying within the pericoerulean neuropil (PCA) organize the major site where tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) is present throughout postnatal development. Those dendrites constitute the neuronal compartment in which TH levels increase beyond postnatal day (P) 21 or after RU24722-induced TH expression. Distal LC dendrites are present in the PCA by at least P20 but are devoid of TH and can rapidly accumulate TH protein when gene induction is triggered. Contrasting with the increase in TH levels within LC perikarya and dendrites, TH-mRNA concentration remains constant in LC perikarya from P4 to P42. Thus, supposing TH synthesis and degradation are also constant, any change in TH levels targeted toward axons might be balanced by a shift in the TH deposition within LC dendrites. This mechanism may be crucial in functions that the different processes of LC neurons have at critical steps of postnatal ontogeny.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Neuropharmacologie Moléculaire, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I UMR 5542, Faculté de Médecine Laënnec, France. bezin@cimac-res.univ-lyon1.fr
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bezin
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marcel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Le Cavorsin
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Madjar
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Pujol
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weissmann
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D008125:Locus Coeruleus / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D051381:Rats; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase / Q000032:analysis*; D014749:Vincamine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D014749:Vincamine; C044616:vindeburnol; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase