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Volume 16, Number 17,
Issue of September 1, 1996
pp. 5361-5371
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Mice Lacking Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Exhibit Visceral
Sensory Neuron Losses Distinct from Mice Lacking NT4 and Display a
Severe Developmental Deficit in Control of Breathing
Received April 25, 1996; revised June 6, 1996; accepted June 12, 1996.
Jeffery T. Erickson1,
Joanne C. Conover2,
Veronique Borday3,
Jean Champagnat3,
Mariano Barbacid4,
George Yancopoulos2, and
David M. Katz1
1 Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, 2 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York 10591, 3 Institut Alfred Fessard, 91198 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex,
France, and 4 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey
08543
The neurotrophins brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and
neurotrophin-4/5 (NT4) act via the TrkB receptor and support survival
of primary somatic and visceral sensory neurons. The major visceral
sensory population, the nodose-petrosal ganglion complex (NPG),
requires BDNF and NT4 for survival of a full complement
of neurons, providing a unique opportunity to compare gene dosage
effects between the two TrkB ligands and to explore the possibility
that one ligand can compensate for loss of the other. Analysis of
newborn transgenic mice lacking BDNF or NT4, or BDNF and
NT4, revealed that survival of many NPG afferents is proportional to
the number of functional BDNF alleles, whereas only one
functional NT4 allele is required to support survival of all
NT4-dependent neurons. In addition, subpopulation analysis revealed
that BDNF and NT4 can compensate for the loss of the other to support a
subset of dopaminergic ganglion cells. Together, these data demonstrate
that the pattern of neuronal dependencies on BDNF and NT4 in
vivo is far more heterogeneous than predicted from previous
studies in culture. Moreover, BDNF knockout animals lack a subset of
afferents involved in ventilatory control and exhibit severe
respiratory abnormalities characterized by depressed and irregular
breathing and reduced chemosensory drive. BDNF is therefore required
for expression of normal respiratory behavior in newborn animals.
Key words:
chemoreceptor;
neurotrophin;
nodose;
petrosal;
respiration;
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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