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Volume 17, Number 21,
Issue of November 1, 1997
pp. 8270-8282
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Analysis of Rat Vestibular Hair Cell Development and Regeneration
Using Calretinin as an Early Marker
Received June 30, 1997; revised Aug. 11, 1997; accepted Aug. 19, 1997.
J. Lisa Zheng and
Wei-Qiang Gao
Department of Neuroscience, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco,
California 94080
Despite increased interest in inner ear hair cell regeneration, it
is still unclear what exact mechanisms underlie hair cell regeneration
in mammals because of our limited understanding of hair cell
development and the lack of specific hair cell markers. In this report,
we studied hair cell development using immunohistochemistry on sections
prepared from embryonic day (E) 13 to postnatal day 7 rat inner ear
tissues. Of many epithelial, neuronal, and glial markers, we found that
calcium-binding protein antibodies recognizing calretinin, calmodulin,
or parvalbumin labeled immature hair cells in rat vestibular end
organs. In particular, calretinin antiserum labeled the initial
differentiating hair cells at E15, a stage immediately after the
terminal mitosis of hair cell progenitors. The selective
immunoreactivity of postmitotic presumptive hair cells, but not
supporting cells or peripheral epithelial cells, was confirmed in
utricular epithelial sheet cultures. Double labeling with calretinin
and bromodeoxyuridine antibodies in long-term cultures showed that only
a few mitotic utricular supporting cells became calretinin positive.
Thus, although proliferation-mediated regeneration of new hair cells
might directly contribute to hair cell regeneration in rat utricles
after injury, it is very limited. In addition, double labeling with
calretinin and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick
end labeling (TUNEL) revealed that differentiated hair cells underwent
apoptosis during normal development at late embryonic and early
postnatal stages in vivo and in vitro. Therefore, these experiments lay the groundwork for the time course of
differentiation, regeneration, and apoptosis of mammalian vestibular hair cells. This work also suggests that calcium-binding proteins are
useful markers for studies on inner ear hair cell differentiation and
regeneration.
Key words:
hair cells;
supporting cells;
differentiation;
regeneration;
apoptosis;
proliferation;
vestibular;
utricle;
TUNEL;
calretinin;
calmodulin;
parvalbumin
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