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IPL Sublamination in Chicken Retinal Spheroids Is Initiated via Müller Cells and Cholinergic Differentiation, and Is Disrupted by NMDA Signaling.

Bachmann, Gesine ; Frohns, Florian ; Thangaraj, Gopenath ; Bausch, Alexander ; Layer, Paul G. (2019)
IPL Sublamination in Chicken Retinal Spheroids Is Initiated via Müller Cells and Cholinergic Differentiation, and Is Disrupted by NMDA Signaling.
In: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 60 (14)
doi: 10.1167/iovs.18-24952
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Purpose

Reaggregates from E6 embryonic chicken retina exhibit areas corresponding to an inner plexiform layer (IPL), which presents an ideal in vitro model to test conditions and constraints of cholinergic and glutamatergic network formation, providing a basis for retinal tissue engineering. Here, we show that ipl formation is regulated by cholinergic starburst amacrine cells (SACs), a glial scaffold and by L-glutamate.

Methods

Rosetted spheroids were cultured in absence or presence of 0.2 to 0.4 mM L-glutamate and analyzed by immuno- and enzyme histochemistry, proliferation, and apoptosis assays.

Results

After 2 days in vitro (div), ipl formation was announced by acetylcholinesterase+ (AChE) and choline acetyltransferase+ (ChAT) cells. Individual vimentin+ or transitin+ Müller glial cell precursors (MCPs) in ipl centers coexpressed ChAT. Comparable to in vivo, pairwise arranged ChAT+ SACs formed two laminar subbands. Projections of calretinin+ amacrine cells (ACs) into ipl associated with MCP processes. In L-glutamate-, or NMDA-treated spheroids ipls were disrupted, including loss of SACs and MCs; coincubation with NMDA receptor inhibitor MK-801 prevented these effects. Also, many Pax6+ cells, comprising most ACs, were lost, while rho4D2+ rod photoreceptors were increased. Cell proliferation was slightly increased, while apoptosis remained unaffected.

Conclusions

This demonstrated: (1) a far-advanced differentiation of an IPL in retinal spheroids, as never described before; (2) ipl sublamination was initiated by cholinergic precursor cells, which-functioning as "ipl founder cells"-(3) gave rise to neurons and glial cells; (4) these SACs and MCPs together organized ipl formation; and (5) this process was counteracted by NMDA-dependent glutamate actions.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2019
Autor(en): Bachmann, Gesine ; Frohns, Florian ; Thangaraj, Gopenath ; Bausch, Alexander ; Layer, Paul G.
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: IPL Sublamination in Chicken Retinal Spheroids Is Initiated via Müller Cells and Cholinergic Differentiation, and Is Disrupted by NMDA Signaling.
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 1 November 2019
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 60
(Heft-)Nummer: 14
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.18-24952
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Purpose

Reaggregates from E6 embryonic chicken retina exhibit areas corresponding to an inner plexiform layer (IPL), which presents an ideal in vitro model to test conditions and constraints of cholinergic and glutamatergic network formation, providing a basis for retinal tissue engineering. Here, we show that ipl formation is regulated by cholinergic starburst amacrine cells (SACs), a glial scaffold and by L-glutamate.

Methods

Rosetted spheroids were cultured in absence or presence of 0.2 to 0.4 mM L-glutamate and analyzed by immuno- and enzyme histochemistry, proliferation, and apoptosis assays.

Results

After 2 days in vitro (div), ipl formation was announced by acetylcholinesterase+ (AChE) and choline acetyltransferase+ (ChAT) cells. Individual vimentin+ or transitin+ Müller glial cell precursors (MCPs) in ipl centers coexpressed ChAT. Comparable to in vivo, pairwise arranged ChAT+ SACs formed two laminar subbands. Projections of calretinin+ amacrine cells (ACs) into ipl associated with MCP processes. In L-glutamate-, or NMDA-treated spheroids ipls were disrupted, including loss of SACs and MCs; coincubation with NMDA receptor inhibitor MK-801 prevented these effects. Also, many Pax6+ cells, comprising most ACs, were lost, while rho4D2+ rod photoreceptors were increased. Cell proliferation was slightly increased, while apoptosis remained unaffected.

Conclusions

This demonstrated: (1) a far-advanced differentiation of an IPL in retinal spheroids, as never described before; (2) ipl sublamination was initiated by cholinergic precursor cells, which-functioning as "ipl founder cells"-(3) gave rise to neurons and glial cells; (4) these SACs and MCPs together organized ipl formation; and (5) this process was counteracted by NMDA-dependent glutamate actions.

ID-Nummer: pmid:31738824
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 10 Fachbereich Biologie
10 Fachbereich Biologie > Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics
Hinterlegungsdatum: 25 Nov 2019 13:42
Letzte Änderung: 25 Nov 2019 13:42
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