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| Title: | Maturation of neuron types in nucleus of solitary tract associated with functional convergence during development of taste circuits |
| Authors: | Mistretta, Charlotte M.
Labyak, Susan E. |
| Issue Date: | 15-Jul-1994 |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
| Citation: | Mistretta, Charlotte M.; Labyak, Susan E. (1994)."Maturation of neuron types in nucleus of solitary tract associated with functional convergence during development of taste circuits." The Journal of Comparative Neurology 345(3): 359-376. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50062> |
| Abstract: | Late fetal through postnatal development in sheep is a period of increasing convergence of afferent taste fibers onto second-order neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). To learn whether neuron morphology alters in concert with convergence and neurophysiological development in NST, three-dimensional neuron reconstructions were made of cells in a functionally defined region of gustatory NST from Golgi preparations of the brainstem. Elongate, multipolar, and ovoid neurons were studied in fetuses from 85 days of gestation through the perinatal period (term = 147 days of gestation), to postnatal stages. Somal size and form, and dendritic complexity and extent, increased markedly from 85 to about 110 days of gestation in both of the proposed NST projection neurons, elongate and multipolar. From 130 days of gestation to postnatal ages, growth of dendrites of elongate neurons plateaued or declined, whereas dendrites of multipolar neurons apparently continued to increase in size and extent. In addition, spine density decreased on elongate neurons but remained stable on multipolar neurons. Morphological variables of ovoid cells, proposed interneurons in NST, did not alter over this later period. The data suggest that multipolar, not elongate or ovoid, neurons are logical candidates to receive the increasing afferent fiber input onto NST cells during late gestation. Also, neural activity from taste afferent fibers is more likely to have a role in altering NST neuron morphology at later, rather than earlier, developmental periods. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
| URI: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db
=pubmed&list_uids=7523462&dopt=citation |
| ISSN: | 0021-9967
1096-9861 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cne.903450304 |
| PMID: | 7523462 |
| Appears in Collections: | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed
Dentistry, School of
Nursing, School of
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