title: Bilaterally symmetric populations of chicken dI1 (commissural) axons cross the floor plate independently of each other.
abstract: Axons use temporal and directional guidance cues at intermediate targets to set the rate and direction of growth towards their synaptic targets. Our recent studies have shown that disrupting the temporal guidance process, by unilaterally accelerating the rate at which spinal dI1 (commissural) axons grow, resulted in turning errors both in the ventral spinal cord and after crossing the floor plate. Here we investigate a mechanistic explanation for these defects: the accelerated dI1 axons arrive in the ventral spinal cord before necessary fasciculation cues from incoming dI1 axons from the opposite side of the spinal cord. The identification of such an interaction would support a model of selective fasciculation whereby the pioneering dI1 axons serve as guides for the processes of the bilaterally symmetrical population of dI1 neurons. To test this model, we first developed the ability to "double" in ovo electroporate the embryonic chicken spinal cord to independently manipulate the rate of growth of the two bilateral populations of dI1 axons. Second, we examined the requirement for a putative bilateral interaction by unilaterally ablating the dI1 population in cultured explants of chicken embryonic spinal cord. Surprisingly, we find no evidence for a bilateral dI1 axon interaction, rather dI1 axons appear to project independently of each other.
authors: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
authors: Keith D
authors: KD
authors: Phan
authors: Samantha J
authors: SJ
authors: Butler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000870:Anterior Horn Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002645:Chickens; D018274:Electroporation / Q000379:methods; D010641:Phenotype; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods
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