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Volume 16, Number 19,
Issue of October 1, 1996
pp. 6183-6196
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
The Leaving or Q Fraction of the Murine Cerebral Proliferative
Epithelium: A General Model of Neocortical Neuronogenesis
Received April 4, 1996; revised June 5, 1996; accepted July 12, 1996.
Takao Takahashi1, 2,
Richard S. Nowakowski3, and
Verne S. Caviness Jr.1
1 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, 2 Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of
Medicine, Tokyo 160, Japan, and 3 Department of
Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey
08854
Neurons of neocortical layers II-VI in the dorsomedial cortex of
the mouse arise in the pseudostratified ventricular epithelium (PVE)
through 11 cell cycles over the six embryonic days 11-17 (E11-E17).
The present experiments measure the proportion of daughter cells that
leave the cycle (quiescent or Q fraction or Q) during a single cell
cycle and the complementary proportion that continues to proliferate
(proliferative or P fraction or P; P = 1 Q). Q and P for
the PVE become 0.5 in the course of the eighth cycle, occurring on E14,
and Q rises to ~0.8 (and P falls to ~0.2) in the course of the 10th
cycle occurring on E16. This indicates that early in neuronogenesis,
neurons are produced relatively slowly and the PVE expands rapidly but
that the reverse happens in the final phase of neuronogenesis. The
present analysis completes a cycle of analyses that have determined the
four fundamental parameters of cell proliferation: growth fraction,
lengths of cell cycle, and phases Q and P. These parameters are the
basis of a coherent neuronogenetic model that characterizes patterns of
growth of the PVE and mathematically relates the size of the initial
proliferative population to the neuronal population of the adult
neocortex.
Key words:
neocortical neuronogenesis;
cell cycle;
proliferation;
mouse;
ventricular zone
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