Maintenance of neuritic arborization in mitotic neuroblasts identified by neurofilament immunoreactivity. A scanning electron microscope study of primary cell cultures from embryonic rat cerebral hemispheres

The morphology of mitotic cells identified as neuronal precursors by neurofilament immunoreactivity was studied by scanning electron microscopy in primary dissociated cultures of fetal rat cerebral hemispheres. It is shown that neurofilament-positive neuroblasts maintain their neuritic arborization...

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Published inInternational journal of developmental neuroscience Vol. 4; no. 5; p. 477
Main Authors Asou, H, Iwasaki-Mutou, N, Hirano, S, Dahl, D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 1986
Subjects
Animals
Brain - cytology
Brain - metabolism
Brain - ultrastructure
Cell Division
Cells, Cultured
Dendrites - analysis
Dendrites - physiology
Dendrites - ultrastructure
Intermediate Filament Proteins - metabolism
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Mitosis
Neurofilament Proteins
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
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Summary:The morphology of mitotic cells identified as neuronal precursors by neurofilament immunoreactivity was studied by scanning electron microscopy in primary dissociated cultures of fetal rat cerebral hemispheres. It is shown that neurofilament-positive neuroblasts maintain their neuritic arborization during cell division suggesting a cytoskeletal function for the neurofilament.
ISSN:0736-5748
DOI:10.1016/0736-5748(86)90029-8