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Development of the basal hypothalamus through anisotropic growth
Author(s) -
Fu Travis,
Pearson Caroline,
Towers Matthew,
Placzek Marysia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of neuroendocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1365-2826
pISSN - 0953-8194
DOI - 10.1111/jne.12727
Subject(s) - progenitor cell , biology , progenitor , embryonic stem cell , population , neuroscience , hypothalamus , microbiology and biotechnology , anatomy , stem cell , genetics , demography , sociology , gene
Abstract The adult hypothalamus is subdivided into distinct domains: pre‐optic, anterior, tuberal and mammillary. Each domain harbours an array of neurones that act together to regulate homeostasis. The embryonic origins and the development of hypothalamic neurones, however, remain enigmatic. Here, we summarise recent studies in model organisms that challenge current views of hypothalamic development, which traditionally have attempted to map adult domains to correspondingly located embryonic domains. Instead, new studies indicate that hypothalamic neurones arise from progenitor cells that undergo anisotropic growth, expanding to a greater extent than other progenitors, and grow in different dimensions. We describe in particular how a multipotent Shh / Fgf10 ‐expressing progenitor population gives rise to progenitors throughout the basal hypothalamus that grow anisotropically and sequentially: first, a subset displaced rostrally give rise to anterior‐ventral/tuberal neuronal progenitors; then a subset displaced caudally give rise to mammillary neuronal progenitors; and, finally, a subset(s) displaced ventrally give rise to tuberal infundibular glial progenitors. As this occurs, stable populations of Shh +ive and Fgf10 +ive progenitors form. We describe current understanding of the mechanisms that induce Shh +ive /Fgf10 +ive progenitors and begin to direct their differentiation to anterior‐ventral/tuberal neuronal progenitors, mammillary neuronal progenitors and tuberal infundibular progenitors. Taken together, these studies suggest a new model for hypothalamic development that we term the “anisotropic growth model”. We discuss the implications of the model for understanding the origins of adult hypothalamic neurones.

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