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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Inhibitory factors of central myelin formation-on the basis of comparative and developmental study on the lemma cribrosa sclerae of the optic nerve

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14370001
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field General anatomy (including Histology/Embryology)
Research InstitutionHOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

INOUE Yoshiro  Hokkaido Univ., Graduated School of Medicine, Prof., 大学院・医学研究科, 教授 (20051584)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) IKENAKA Kazuhiro  Okazaki National Research Institutes, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Prof., 生理学研究所, 教授 (00144527)
TAKAYAMA Chitoshi  Hokkaido Univ., Graduated School of Medicine, Associate Prof., 大学院・医学研究科, 助教授 (60197217)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Keywordsmyelin formation / oligodendrocytes / optic nerve / amina cribrosa sclerae / unmyelinated nerve fibers / astrocytes / glical cells / cell fifferentiation
Research Abstract

In the mouse optic nerve, the optic nerve fiber layer in the retina, the optic papilla and the lamina cribrosa sclerae (LCS) just after penetrating the eyeball failed to generate myelin, whereas the optic nerve proper in the orbit was occupied by myelinated nerve fibers. The present study investigated development of the architecture of LCS, where the axons develop from unmyelinated to myelinated type, to elucidate how the initial part of axons was unmyelinated. At the LCS of the adult optic nerve, well developed astrocytes densely formed a cytoplasmic mesh-like frame through which unmyelinated fibers passed. The astrocytes here contained numerous and densely packed intermediate glial filaments and cell organelles. This framework formed by astrocytes appeared to be completed between 7 and 14 postnatal days before oligodendrocyte progenitors, migrated from the chiasm side, reached the proximal end of LCS, and began myelin formation. Thus the failure in myelin formation at the intraocular part and LCS possibly depended upon unsuccessful migration of oligodendrocytes beyond LCS constructed by specialized astrocytes, although other inhibitory factors for myelin formation, such as adhesion molecules distributed around LCS, may be unsolved.

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All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 井上 芳郎: "Distal extension of climbing fiber territory and multiple innervation caused by aberrant wiring to adjacent spiny branchlets in cerebeller Purkinje cells lacking glutamate receptor delta 2"J Neurosci.. 22. 8457-8503 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 井上 芳郎: "Vav3 is regulated during the cell cycle and effects cell division"Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 99. 4313-4318 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 井上 芳郎: "Development astrocytes in the lamina cribrosa sclerae of the mouse optic nerve, with special reference to myelin formation"Okajima Folia Anatomica Japonica. 79. 143-158 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 池中 一裕: "A Myelin Galactolipid, Sulfatide, Is Essential for Maintenance of Ion Channels on Myelinated Axon But Not Essential for Initial Cluster Formation"J.Neurosci.. 22. 6507-6514 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 高山 千利: "Normal formation of the postsynaptic elements of GABAergic synapses in the reeler cerebellum"Develop Brain Res. 145. 197-211 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 井上 芳郎: "Tetraspanin Protein CD9 Is a Novel Paranodal Component Regulating Paranodal Junctional Formation"J.Neurosci.. 24. 96-102 (2004)

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  • [Publications] 高山 千利: "Transient expression of GABAA recepter alpha2 and alpha3 subunits in differentiating cerebellar neurons"Dev Brain Res. 148. 169-177 (2004)

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  • [Publications] Inoue, Y.et al.: "Distal extension of climbing fiber territory and multiple innervation caused by aberrant wiring to adjacent spiny branchlets in cerebeller Purkinje cells lacking glutamate receptor delta 2."J Neurosci.. 22. 8457-8503 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Inoue, Y.et al.: "Vav3 is regulated during the cell cycle and effects cell division."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 99. 3413-4318 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Inoue, Y.et al.: "Development astrocytes in the lamina cribrosa sclerae of the mouse optic nerve, with special reference to myelin formation."Okajima Folia Anatomica Japonica. 79. 143-158 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Ikenaka, K.et al.: "A Myelin Galactolipid, Sulfatide, Is Essential for Maintenance of Ion Channels on Myelinated Axon But Not Essential for Initial Cluster Formation"J.Neurosci.. 22. 6507-6514 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Takayama, C.et al.: "Normal formation of the postsynaptic elements of GABAergic synapses in the reeler cerebellum."Dev Brain Res. 145. 197-211 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Inoue, Y.et al.: "Tetraspanin Protein CD9 is a Novel Paranodal Component Regulating Paranodal Junctional Formation."J.Neurosci.. 24. 96-102 (2004)

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  • [Publications] Takayama, C.et al.: "Transient expression of GABAA receptor alpha2 and alpha3 subunits an differentiating cerebellar neurons."Dev Brain Res. 148. 169-177 (2004)

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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