Regulation of embryonic neurogenesis by germinal zone vasculature

Abstract

In the adult rodent brain, new neurons are born in two germinal regions that are associated with blood vessels, and blood vessels and vessel-derived factors are thought to regulate the activity of adult neural stem cells. Recently, it has been proposed that a vascular niche also regulates prenatal neurogenesis. Here we identify the mouse embryo hindbrain as a powerful model to study embryonic neurogenesis and define the relationship between neural progenitor cell (NPC) behavior and vessel growth. Using this model, we show that a subventricular vascular plexus (SVP) extends through a hindbrain germinal zone populated by NPCs whose peak mitotic activity follows a surge in SVP growth. Hindbrains genetically defective in SVP formation owing to constitutive NRP1 loss showed a premature decline in both NPC activity and hindbrain growth downstream of precocious cell cycle exit, premature neuronal differentiation, and abnormal mitosis patterns. Defective regulation of NPC activity was not observed in mice lacking NRP1 expression by NPCs, but instead in mice lacking NRP1 selectively in endothelial cells, yet was independent of vascular roles in hindbrain oxygenation. Therefore, germinal zone vascularization sustains NPC proliferation in the prenatal brain.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613113113
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences
College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: © 2016 The Authors
Uncontrolled Keywords: Animals,Blood Vessels/physiology,Cell Proliferation,Cell Self Renewal,Endothelial Cells/metabolism,Extracellular Matrix/metabolism,Mice,Mice, Inbred C57BL,Mitosis,Neovascularization, Physiologic,Neural Stem Cells/cytology,Neurogenesis,Neuropilin-1/metabolism,Oxygen/metabolism,Rhombencephalon/blood supply,Time Factors
Publication ISSN: 1091-6490
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 08:34
Date Deposited: 30 Jul 2019 12:16
Full Text Link: http://discover ... .ac.uk/1524229/
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2016-11-22
Published Online Date: 2016-11-07
Accepted Date: 2016-10-10
Authors: Tata, Mathew
Wall, Ivan (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-6294-8348)
Joyce, Andy
Vieira, Joaquim M
Kessaris, Nicoletta
Ruhrberg, Christiana

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