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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 5, 117-127, Copyright © 1985 by Society for Neuroscience

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Embryonic development of glial cells and their junctions in the locust central nervous system

LS Swales and NJ Lane

The embryonic development of the specialized glial cells that form the perineurial blood-brain barrier in the locust CNS has been studied by freeze-fracture and tracer uptake. These cells migrate to form bracelet cell arrangements around the nervous tissues between day 4 to day 10 of embryonic differentiation which lasts 14 days in toto. A number of different kinds of intercellular junction form between the bracelet cells from day 8 to day 13 of development. These include gap junctions with features characteristic of arthropods, which seem to assemble by lateral migration of 13-nm E face intramembranous particles (IMPs), which ultimately cluster to form a large number of mature plaques of varying diameters. Less numerous are tight junctions which serve to restrict entry of exogenous molecules, including lanthanum and cationic ferritin, thereby forming the blood-brain barrier; these appear to assemble by migration of individual 8- to 10-nm P face IMPs into ridges which are found between the overlapping fingers of the perineurial bracelet cell processes. Septate junctions also mature at this stage in embryonic development by apparent assembly of IMPs into characteristic aligned rows; these may serve to slow down the entry of positively charged molecules as well as being adhesive, although anionic ferritin may leak into the CNS even after septate and tight junction formation. The observed changes in cellular associations and the formation of the blood-brain barrier coincide with the onset of mature neuronal electrical properties and spontaneous synaptic input.


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