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Anatomy of rat semaphorin III/collapsin-1 mRNA expression and relationship to developing nerve tracts during neuroembryogenesis.

Semaphorin III/collapsin-1 (semaIII/coll-1) is a chemorepellent that exhibits a repulsive effect on growth cones of dorsal root ganglion neurons. To identify structures that express semaIII/coll-1 in developing mammals, we cloned the rat homologue and performed in situ hybridization on embryonic, neonatal, and adult rats. The relationship between semaIII/coll-1 mRNA distribution and developing nerve tracts was studied by combining in situ hybridization with immunohistochemistry for markers of growing nerve fibers. At embryonic day 11, semaIII/coll-1 expression was restricted to the olfactory pit, the basal and rostral surface of the telencephalic vesicle, the anlage of the eye, the epithelium of Rathke's pouch, and the somites. At later developmental stages, semaIII/coll-1 mRNA was found to be widely distributed in neuronal as well as in mesenchymal and epithelial structures outside the nervous system. Strong expression was found in the olfactory bulb, retina, lens, piriform cortex, amygdalostriatal area, pons, cerebellar anlage, motor nuclei of cranial nerves, and ventral spinal cord. After birth, mesenchymal staining decreased rapidly and expression became progressively restricted to specific sets of neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). In the mature CNS, semaIII/coll-1 mRNA remains detectable in mitral cells, neurons of the accessory bulb and cerebral cortex, cerebellar Purkinje cells, as well as a subset of cranial and spinal motoneurons. The temporal and spatial expression pattern of semaIII/coll-1 mRNA and its relationship to emerging nerve tracts suggests that semaIII/coll-1 is involved in guiding growing axons towards their targets by forming a molecular boundary that instructs axons to engage in the formation of specific nerve tracts.[1]

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