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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2024

EphB1 controls long-range cortical axon guidance through a cell non-autonomous role in GABAergic cells.

Ahlem Assali, George Chenaux, Jennifer Y Cho, Stefano Berto, Nathan A Ehrlich, Christopher W Cowan

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ahlem AssaliDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5863-3682
George ChenauxDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Jennifer Y ChoDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Stefano BertoDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Nathan A EhrlichDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Christopher W CowanDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5472-3296
Medical University of South Carolina · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research (SC INBRE V)P20GM103499 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI EDIE C GOLDSMITH · 2012 to 2026
$61.0M
The Role of Early Life Stress in Feeding BehaviorsP20GM148302 · NIGMS · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI Christopher W Cowan · 2023 to 2026
$11.5M
Transcriptional Regulation of Synapse Development in Intellectual and Developmental DisordersR01MH111464 · NIMH · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI COWAN, CHRISTOPHER W · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
Signaling Mechanisms of Retinal Axon GuidanceR01EY018207 · NEI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI COWAN, CHRISTOPHER W · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018207NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103499NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM148302NIH HHS GM103499NIH HHS MH111464NIH HHS R01 MH111464NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH111464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

EphB1 is required for proper guidance of cortical axon projections during brain development, but how EphB1 regulates this process remains unclear. We show here that EphB1 conditional knockout (cKO) in GABAergic cells (Vgat-Cre), but not in cortical excitatory neurons (Emx1-Cre), reproduced the cortical axon guidance defects observed in global EphB1 KO mice. Interestingly, in EphB1 cKOVgat mice, the misguided axon bundles contained co-mingled striatal GABAergic and somatosensory cortical glutamatergic axons. In wild-type mice, somatosensory axons also co-fasciculated with striatal axons, notably in the globus pallidus, suggesting that a subset of glutamatergic cortical axons normally follows long-range GABAergic axons to reach their targets. Surprisingly, the ectopic axons in EphB1 KO mice were juxtaposed to major blood vessels. However, conditional loss of EphB1 in endothelial cells (Tie2-Cre) did not produce the axon guidance defects, suggesting that EphB1 in GABAergic neurons normally promotes avoidance of these ectopic axons from the developing brain vasculature. Together, our data reveal a new role for EphB1 in GABAergic neurons to influence proper cortical glutamatergic axon guidance during brain development.

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Axon GuidanceEndothelial CellsAnimalsAxonsGABAergic NeuronsMiceMice, KnockoutReceptor, EphB1Receptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptor, EphB1Receptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesAxon guidanceCerebral vasculatureEphB1GABAergic long-range projectionsMouse

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