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. 1981 Jan 1;1(1):27–39. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.01-01-00027.1981

Coexistence of neuronal and glial precursor cells in the cerebral ventricular zone of the fetal monkey: an ultrastructural immunoperoxidase analysis

P Levitt, ML Cooper, P Rakic
PMCID: PMC6564162  PMID: 7050307

Abstract

The cytological composition of the proliferative zones in the fetal monkey occipital lobe was examined at the light and electron microscopic levels by immunoperoxidase localization of glial fibrillary acid protein (GFA), a protein that is present in astrocytes and radial glial cells but not neurons. During the peak of neurogenesis at embryonic day 80, two distinct classes of proliferative cells, GFA- positive and GFA-negative, are intermixed in the ventricular and subventricular zones. Both cell types are readily recognized in different phases of the mitotic cycle along the ventricular surface. The results indicate that, contrary to prevailing views, (1) glial and neuronal cell lines coexist within the fetal proliferative zones and (2) the onset of glial phenotypic expression occurs prior to the last cell division.


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