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Neuropilin-1 and the Positions of Glomeruli in the Mouse Olfactory Bulb.

Bolek Zapiec, Olaf Christian Bressel, Mona Khan, Andreas Walz, Peter Mombaerts

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Glomeruli of the Mouse Olfactory Bulb: Numbers, Sizes, Shapes.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025
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  4. Wiring the senses: Factors that regulate peripheral axon pathfinding in sensory systems.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2023
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  8. Topographic organization in the olfactory bulb.Cell and tissue research · 2021
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  12. The long tale of the calcium activated ClChannels (Austin, Tex.) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bolek ZapiecMax Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics , 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Olaf Christian BresselMax Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics , 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Mona KhanMax Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics , 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Andreas WalzMax Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics , 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Peter MombaertsMax Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics , 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is known since 1996 that mouse odorant receptors (ORs) are involved in determining the positions of the sites of coalescence of axons of olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs)-the thousands of glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. But the molecular and cellular mechanisms of OR-mediated axonal coalescence into glomeruli remain unclear. A model was proposed in 2006-2009 whereby OR-derived cAMP signals, rather than direct action of OR molecules, determine the target destinations (glomeruli) of OSNs in the bulb. This model hypothesizes that OR-derived cAMP signals determine the expression levels of neuropilin 1 (Nrp1) in OSN axon termini; that levels of Nrp1 in glomeruli form a gradient from anterior-low to posterior-high throughout the bulb; and that these Nrp1 levels mechanistically determine anterior-posterior patterning of glomeruli. Here, we describe the first independent evaluation of the Nrp1 model since it was formulated a decade ago. We tested the model for the well-characterized mouse OR M71 using our gene-targeted mouse strains, which are publicly available. In contradiction to the model, we observed a variety of configurations for the M71 glomeruli in the conditional

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AnimalsAxonsCyclic AMPFemaleImaging, Three-DimensionalImmunohistochemistryMaleMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMicroscopy, ConfocalNeuropilin-1Olfactory BulbOlfactory Receptor NeuronsRatsReceptors, OdorantTomographyCyclic AMPNeuropilin-1Olfr151 protein, mouseReceptors, Odorantaxon guidancebulbcAMPneuropilinodorantolfactory

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PMID27844052
PMCPMC5089123
OpenAlexW2544215573

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