title: Heterogeneous calretinin expression in the avian cochlear nucleus angularis.
abstract: Multiple calcium-binding proteins (CaBPs) are expressed at high levels and in complementary patterns in the auditory pathways of birds, mammals, and other vertebrates, but whether specific members of the CaBP family can be used to identify neuronal subpopulations is unclear. We used double immunofluorescence labeling of calretinin (CR) in combination with neuronal markers to investigate the distribution of CR-expressing neurons in brainstem sections of the cochlear nucleus in the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). While CR was homogeneously expressed in cochlear nucleus magnocellularis, CR expression was highly heterogeneous in cochlear nucleus angularis (NA), a nucleus with diverse cell types analogous in function to neurons in the mammalian ventral cochlear nucleus. To quantify the distribution of CR in the total NA cell population, we used antibodies against neuronal nuclear protein (NeuN), a postmitotic neuron-specific nuclear marker. In NA neurons, NeuN label was variably localized to the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm, and the intensity of NeuN immunoreactivity was inversely correlated with the intensity of CR immunoreactivity. The percentage of CR + neurons in NA increased from 31 % in embryonic (E)17/18 chicks, to 44 % around hatching (E21), to 51 % in postnatal day (P) 8 chicks. By P8, the distribution of CR + neurons was uniform, both rostrocaudal and in the tonotopic (dorsoventral) axis. Immunoreactivity for the voltage-gated potassium ion channel Kv1.1, used as a marker for physiological type, showed broad and heterogeneous postsynaptic expression in NA, but did not correlate with CR expression. These results suggest that CR may define a subpopulation of neurons within nucleus angularis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bloom
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: MacLeod
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000378:metabolism; D064032:Calbindin 2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D002645:Chickens / Q000378:metabolism*; D017626:Cochlear Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D051662:Kv1.1 Potassium Channel / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D023421:Models, Animal; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D064032:Calbindin 2; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D051662:Kv1.1 Potassium Channel
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