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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 1, 1999, 19(13):5393-5408

Functionally Antagonistic Interactions between the TrkA and p75 Neurotrophin Receptors Regulate Sympathetic Neuron Growth and Target Innervation

Judi Kohn1, Raquel S. Aloyz1, Jean G. Toma1, Mary Haak-Frendscho2, and Freda D. Miller1

1 Centre for Neuronal Survival, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 2B4, and 2 Department of Immunology, Promega Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin 53711

In this report, we provide evidence that NGF and BDNF have functionally antagonistic actions on sympathetic neuron growth and target innervation, with NGF acting via TrkA to promote growth and BDNF via p75NTR to inhibit growth. Specifically, in cultured sympathetic neurons that themselves synthesize BDNF, exogenous BDNF inhibits and function-blocking BDNF antibodies enhance process outgrowth. Both exogenous and autocrine BDNF mediate this effect via p75NTR because (1) BDNF does not inhibit growth of neurons lacking p75NTR, (2) function-blocking p75NTR antibodies enhance NGF-mediated growth, and (3) p75NTR-/- sympathetic neurons grow more robustly in response to NGF than do their wild-type counterparts. To determine the physiological relevance of this functional antagonism, we examined the pineal gland, a well defined sympathetic target organ. BDNF is present in the pineal gland during target innervation, and incoming sympathetic axons are p75NTR positive. Moreover, the pineal glands of BDNF+/- and BDNF-/- mice are hyperinnervated with sympathetic fibers, and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) levels are elevated. Increased tyrosine hydroxylase is also observed in the BDNF+/- carotid artery, another sympathetic neuron target. Thus, BDNF, made by sympathetic neurons and/or their target organs, acts via p75NTR to antagonize NGF-mediated growth and target innervation, suggesting that sympathetic target innervation is determined by the balance of positively and negatively acting neurotrophins present in developing and potentially mature targets.

Key words: nerve growth factor; brain-derived neurotrophic factor; sympathetic neurons; target innervation; neurotrophin receptor; TrkA; p75NTR; pineal gland


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