PMID- 10022582 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990507 LR - 20191102 IS - 0022-3034 (Print) IS - 0022-3034 (Linking) VI - 38 IP - 3 DP - 1999 Feb 15 TI - Developing vestibular ganglion neurons switch trophic sensitivity from BDNF to GDNF after target innervation. PG - 414-27 AB - Recent evidence showing a distinctive cell loss in vestibular and cochlear ganglia of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) versus neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) null mutant mice demonstrates that these neurotrophins play a critical role in inner ear development. In this study, biological functions of BDNF and NT-3 in the chick vestibular and cochlear ganglion development was assessed in vitro and compared to those of other neurotrophic factors. The embryonic day (E)8-12 vestibular ganglion neurons showed an extensive outgrowth in response to BDNF with less outgrowth to NT-3. In contrast, NT-3 had stronger neurotrophic effects on the E12 cochlear ganglion neurons compared to BDNF. These results support previous evidence that neurotrophins play important roles in the vestibular and cochlear ganglion neuron development. However, the responsiveness to the neurotrophins declined and became undetectable by E16. Unexpectedly, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) promoted neurite outgrowth from vestibular ganglia at E12-16, later than the stages at which BDNF had neurotrophic effects. The time of switching sensitivity of the vestibular ganglion neurons from BDNF to GDNF correlated with the time of completion of synaptogenesis on their peripheral and central targets. Furthermore, a factor released from E12 inner ears exerted neurotrophic effects on late-stage vestibular ganglion neurons that were not responsive to the E4 otocyst-derived factor. These results raise the possibility that the vestibular ganglion neurons become responsive to GDNF upon target innervation and that the changes in sensitivity are regulated by changes in available factors released from their peripheral targets, the inner ear epithelia. FAU - Hashino, E AU - Hashino E AD - Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14214, USA. FAU - Dolnick, R Y AU - Dolnick RY FAU - Cohan, C S AU - Cohan CS LA - eng GR - R01 DC01785/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Neurobiol JT - Journal of neurobiology JID - 0213640 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Culture Media, Conditioned) RN - 0 (Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Nerve Growth Factors) RN - 0 (Nerve Tissue Proteins) RN - 0 (Neurotrophin 3) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*physiology MH - Chick Embryo MH - Cochlear Nucleus/cytology/embryology MH - Culture Media, Conditioned MH - Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor MH - Nerve Fibers/ultrastructure MH - Nerve Growth Factors/*physiology MH - Nerve Tissue Proteins/*physiology MH - Neurons/*physiology MH - Neurotrophin 3 MH - Organ Culture Techniques MH - Vestibular Nuclei/*cytology/*embryology EDAT- 1999/02/18 03:02 MHDA- 2000/06/20 09:00 CRDT- 1999/02/18 03:02 PHST- 1999/02/18 03:02 [pubmed] PHST- 2000/06/20 09:00 [medline] PHST- 1999/02/18 03:02 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(19990215)38:3<414::AID-NEU9>3.0.CO;2-Y [pii] AID - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(19990215)38:3<414::aid-neu9>3.0.co;2-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neurobiol. 1999 Feb 15;38(3):414-27. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(19990215)38:3<414::aid-neu9>3.0.co;2-y.