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Differential expression of protocadherin‐19 , protocadherin‐17 , and cadherin‐6 in adult zebrafish brain
Author(s) -
Liu Qin,
Bhattarai Sunil,
Wang Nan,
SochackaMarlowe Alicja
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of comparative neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1096-9861
pISSN - 0021-9967
DOI - 10.1002/cne.23746
Subject(s) - protocadherin , biology , cerebrum , cadherin , neuroscience , zebrafish , thalamus , anatomy , sensory system , microbiology and biotechnology , central nervous system , genetics , cell , gene
Cell adhesion molecule cadherins play important roles in both development and maintenance of adult structures. Most studies on cadherin expression have been carried out in developing organisms, but information on cadherin distribution in adult vertebrate brains is limited. In this study we used in situ hybridization to examine mRNA expression of three cadherins, protocadherin‐19 , protocadherin‐17 , and cadherin‐6 in adult zebrafish brain. Each cadherin exhibits a distinct expression pattern in the fish brain, with protocadherin‐19 and protocadherin‐17 showing much wider and stronger expression than that of cadherin‐6 . Both protocadherin‐19 and protocadherin‐17 ‐expressing cells occur throughout the brain, with strong expression in the ventromedial telencephalon, periventricular regions of the thalamus and anterior hypothalamus, stratum periventriculare of the optic tectum, dorsal tegmental nucleus, granular regions of the cerebellar body and valvula, and superficial layers of the facial and vagal lobes. Numerous sensory structures (e.g., auditory, gustatory, lateral line, olfactory, and visual nuclei) and motor nuclei (e.g., oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal motor, abducens, and vagal motor nuclei) contain protocadherin‐19 and/or protocadherin‐17 ‐expressing cell. Expression of these two protocadherins is similar in the ventromedial telencephalon, thalamus, hypothalamus, facial, and vagal lobes, but substantially different in the dorsolateral telencephalon, intermediate layers of the optic tectum, and cerebellar valvula. In contrast to the two protocadherins , cadherin‐6 expression is much weaker and limited in the adult fish brain. J. Comp. Neurol. 523:1419–1442, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.