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. 1978 Jun;75(6):2986–2990. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.6.2986

Ontogenetic appearance and disappearance of tyrosine hydroxylase and catecholamines in the rat embryo.

P Cochard, M Goldstein, I B Black
PMCID: PMC392692  PMID: 26919

Abstract

The ontogenetic pattern of noradrenergic differentiation in rat embryonic autonomic neuroblasts was defined in vivo. Noradrenergic specialization was examined by documenting the immunohistochemical appearance of tyrosine hydroxylase [Tyr-OH; tyrosine 3-monooxygenase; L-tyrosine,-tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.16.2] and the development of histofluorescence due to catecholamine (CA). Tyr-OH and CA were undetectable in the dorsal neural crest or the ventrally migrating crest cells and first appeared at 12.5 days of gestation (36--37 somite stage) in sympathoblasts that had formed sympathetic ganglion primordia. Fluorescence intensity and the number of fluorescent cells increased progressively thereafter. In addition, Tyr-OH and CA transiently appeared in scattered presumptive neuroblasts in the gut. The enzyme and transmitter were first detectable at 11.5 days of gestation and thereafter decreased progressively so that, by 14.5 days, only rare cells were encountered. There was remarkable synchrony in the appearance and disappearance of Tyr-OH and CA. These observations suggest that a number of noradrenergic transmitter mechanisms develop simultaneously in the differentiating neuroblast. The relevance of these results to the elucidation of developmental regulatory mechanisms is discussed.

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