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The Journal of Neuroscience, 2001, 21:RC164:1-5
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Different Signaling Pathways Mediate Regenerative versus
Developmental Sensory Axon Growth
Rong-Yu
Liu and
William D.
Snider
Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina 27599
Recent advances in defining neurotrophin signaling mediators have
provided insights into the signal transduction mechanisms that underlie
axon growth. Evidence is accumulating that major Trk effectors regulate
the morphological development of embryonic peripheral neurons. Less is
known about signaling related to the robust axon extension that follows
peripheral axotomy of adult neurons. Regenerative axon growth can be
mimicked in vitro by a "conditioning" lesion
performed 2 weeks before culture (Smith and Skene, 1997). Previous work
has implicated both neurotrophins and cytokines in this response.
Because signal transduction mediators of both of these families of
growth factors are well characterized, we have compared the role of
neurotrophin and cytokine signaling in developmental versus
regenerative sensory axon growth.
Chemical inhibitors were administrated to embryonic and axotomized
sensory neurons in vitro to block the activation of Erk kinase (MEK)-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK),
phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3-K), and janus kinase (JAK)
signaling. As expected, both MEK and PI3-K inhibition blocked axon
growth from both naïve and NGF-stimulated embryonic day 13 sensory neurons, whereas inhibition of JAK phosphorylation had no
effect. In contrast, neither MEK nor PI3-K inhibitors blocked
elongation of adult sensory neurons after a conditioning lesion.
However, the addition of a JAK2 inhibitor prevented the regenerative
axon response. Consistent with these pharmacological results, the
percentage of neurons showing intense nuclear signal transducers and
activators of transcription 3 phosphorylation after a conditioning
lesion was markedly increased compared with controls.
These observations demonstrate that the signaling mediators that
underlie regenerative axon growth are distinct from those used during
development and suggest that cytokine signaling may be critical to
peripheral nervous system regeneration.
Key words:
axotomy; neurotrophin signaling; cytokine signaling; conditioning lesion; embryonic axon growth
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