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Published in final edited form as: Rev Neurosci. 2011 Aug 24;22(5):509–533. doi: 10.1515/RNS.2011.041

Table 1.

Expression patterns of select TNFSF/TNFRSF members in neuronal tissue in healthy mammals.

TNFRSF/TNFSF
member
Species Period of developmenta Cell type Region Reference
Fas and Fas L Mouse ED15-18 Non-endothelial Hippocampus, cortex, ventricular zone French et al. (1996); Zuliani et al. (2006)
Choi et al. (1999)
Fas and Fas L Human Fts 20-25 weeks Astrocytes Zuliani et al. (2006)
Fas and Fas L Mouse PD1 Neurons, oligodendrocytes Hippocampus, cortical layers II, III and V Knight et al. (2010)
Fas and Fas L Mouse PD4 Neural progenitors Zuliani et al. (2006)
Fas and Fas L Mouse PD5 (peak) Neurons Hippocampus, CA2 and CA3 Zuliani et al. (2006)
Fas Mouse PD14 Endothelial dentate gyrus, CA1 Park et al. (1998)
Mouse Neurons Harry et al. (2008)
FasL Mouse PD21 (low) Neurons Scattered throughout French et al. (1996)
Fas and Fas L Mouse Matsuyama et al. (1994)
Fas and Fas L Mouse Corsini et al. (2009)
Fas Mouse Ad (low) Neural progenitors Dentate gyrus, SVZ Knight et al. (2010)
Fas and Fas L Mouse Ad (high) Neural progenitors Scattered throughout Choi et al. (1999)
FasL Human Ad (high) Astrocytes Bechmann et al. (1999)
FasL Rat Ad (high) Astrocytes Bechmann et al. (1999)
FasL Human Ad Neurons Associated with blood vasculature Bechmann et al. (1999)
FasL Human Ad Astrocytes Associated with blood vasculature
TNF Mouse ED10-19 Yamasu et al. (1989)
TNF Human Fts 18 weeks Astrocytes Lee et al. (1993)
TNF Sheep ED30-lst trimester Ventricular & Marginal zone, white matter Dziegielewska et al. (1994)
TNF Human Fts Astrocytes Lee et al. (1993)
TNF Human Fts Microglia Williams et al. (1995)
Rat Fts Glia Schwartz et al. (1998)
TNF Mouse PD7 (Peak) Yamasu et al. (1989)
TNF Human Ad Microglia Becher et al. (1996)
TNF Rat Ad Throughout including cortex, hippocampus Cearly et al. (2003)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Mouse ED10-19 throughout including hippocampus and
cerebellum
Neumann et al. (2002); Yang et al. (2002); Oldrieve et al. (2010)
Keohane et al. (2010)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Rat Fts Neural progenitor cells (reported to be TNF sensitive) Hurwitz et al. (1992)
TNFR? Human Fts Astrocytes (reported to be TNF sensitive) Moretto et al. (1993)
TNFR? Human Fts Astrocytes Sheng et al. (2005)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Human Fts 8-10 weeks Neural progenitor cells Hippocampus Kajiwara et al. (2005)
TNFR1 Rat Fts ED16 Neurons Hippocampus Harry et al. (2008)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Mouse PD21 Neurons primarily Cerebellum Oldrieve et al. (2010)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Mouse Ad (high) Neurons Hippocampus Iosif et al. (2006)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Mouse Ad Neurons Hippocampus Dopp et al. (1997), Iosif et al. (2006)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Mouse Ad (low) Neural progenitor cells Throughout, especially hippocampus Balosso et al. (2005)
TNFR2 Mouse Ad Neurons Cortex Patel et al. (2008)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Rat Ad (10 months - high) Neurons Cortex Patel et al. (2008)
TNFR1/TNFR2 Rat Ad (24 months - high) Neurons Dopp et al. (1997)
TNFR1 Rat PD6-15 Glia Dopp et al. (1997)
TNFR2 Rat Astrocytes Dopp et al. (1997)
TNFR2 Rat Oligodendrocytes
DR3 Mouse ED12-13 then downregulated
before birth
Mesencephalic ventricle, midbrain, roof of
neopallial cortex
Harrison et al. (2000)
PD6-7 into
Ad
Ad Throughout
DR3 Mouse Ad Throughout including hippocampus, cortex Wang et al. (2001)
DR3 Mouse Ad Neurons Throughout including cortex, striatum, hip-
pocampus and cerebellum
Twohig et al. (2010)
DR3 Human Ad Throughout including hippocampus, cortex Newman et al. (2000)
DR3 Rat Harrison et al. (2000)
TL1A Mouse Astrocytes Twohig et al. (2010)
p75NTR Mouse ED Radial glial cells Mathius et al. (2010)
p75NTR Human Fts 14-20 weeks (high) Neurons Throughout including cerebellum, neocor-
tex and hippocampus. Positional changes
with development
Fts 22 weeks - birth (low)
p75NTR Human Ad (high) Neurons Primarily forebrain but in other places Kordower et al. (2002)
Ad (high) Primarily forebrain and cerebellum
p75NTR Mouse Neurons Salama-Cohen et al. (2005)
p75NTR Rat Ad (high) Neurons Forebrain Pioro et al. (1990); Hartig et al. (1998)
Ad (high) Primarily forebrain and cerebellum but in
other places
Hefti et al. (1986)
p75NTR Human Neurons Primarily forebrain but in other places Kordower et al. (1988); Kordower et al. (1994)
p75NTR Monkey Ad (low) Neurons Mufsan et al. (1989, 1992)
p75NTR Human Neurons
TROY Mouse ED11.5-13.5 Radial glial cells,
Neuroepithelial cells
Forebrain, mid brain- ventricular/subven-
tricular zone, olfactory bulb, telencephalic
neuroepithelium, dorsal neural tube
Forebrain, hippocampus-dentate SVZ
dentate gyrus
Kojima et al. (2000); Hisaoka et al. (2003, 2006a,b);Morikawa et al. (2008)
TROY Mouse Hisaoka et al. (2006a)
Radial glial cells Molecular Layer Hisaoka et al. (2006a)
TROY Mouse ED15.5-17.5 Hippocampal hilus, DG subgranular zone
Radial Glial/astrocyte Cerebral cortex-microvascular associated
progenitors
TROY Mouse Post-natal Radial glial cells Throughout including forebrain, hippocam-
pus, striatum and cortex
Park et al. (2005)
Neurons Cortex and hippocamus
TROY Mouse PD7-14 Forebrain, hippocampus, striatum, cortex,
amygdale, thalamus, midbrain, cerebellum,
olfactory bulb particularly rostral migratory
Trifunofski et al. (1996)
stream and SVZ
TROY Mouse PD28 Scattered throughout Hisaoka et al. (2006a,b)
Neuronal progenitor cells
TROY Rat Ad Scattered throughout cortex, hippocampus
and striatum
TROY Mouse Ad Sotah et al. (2007)
TROY Human Aged Ad (high) Neurons and astrocytes,
most microglia
TROY Mouse Ad Astrocytes and glia Hisaoka et al. (2006a,b)
CD40L Mouse Newborn/Ad Microglia, Astrocytes Scattered throughout whole brain Tan et al. (2002)
Calingasan et al. (2002)
Mouse Very Aged Ad Smooth muscle,
Endothelial cells,
Microvasculature
Hippocampus, cortex Calingasan et al. (2002)
Neurons Calingasan et al. (2002)
CD40 Mouse Ad Hippocampus, DG and pyramidal cell layer Tan et al. (2002)
Hou et al. (2008)
GITRL/GITR Mouse ED15-18 Sympathetic Neurons No expression in the brain, O’Keeffe et al. (2008)
GITRL/GITR Mouse PD1-P5 Strong expression in the peripheral
neurotissues
Mouse Ad
GITRL/GITR Human ? (very low) Gurney et al. (1999)
EDAR Mouse ED10-12 Thalamus, mid-brain, lateral ventricles Pispa et al. (2003)
EDA Mouse ED10-12 Diencephalon, lateral ventricles, hindbrain Pispa et al. (2003)
a

ED, embryonic day; PD, post-natal day; Fts, fetus; Ad, adult.