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Neuropilins guide preganglionic sympathetic axons and chromaffin cell precursors to establish the adrenal medulla

Lumb, R; Tata, M; Xu, X; Joyce, A; Marchant, C; Harvey, N; Ruhrberg, C; (2018) Neuropilins guide preganglionic sympathetic axons and chromaffin cell precursors to establish the adrenal medulla. Development 10.1242/dev.162552. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The adrenal medulla is composed of neuroendocrine chromaffin cells that secrete adrenaline into the systemic circulation to maintain physiological homeostasis and enable the autonomic stress response. How chromaffin cell precursors colonise the adrenal medulla, and how they become connected to central nervous system derived preganglionic sympathetic neurons remains largely unknown. By combining lineage tracing, gene expression studies, genetic ablation and the analysis of mouse mutants, we demonstrate that preganglionic axons direct chromaffin cell precursors into the adrenal primordia. We further show that preganglionic axons and chromaffin cell precursors require class 3 semaphorin (SEMA3) signalling through neuropilins (NRP) to target the adrenal medulla. Thus, SEMA3s serve as guidance cues to control formation of the adrenal neuroendocrine system by establishing appropriate connections between preganglionic neurons and adrenal chromaffin cells that regulate the autonomic stress response.

Type: Article
Title: Neuropilins guide preganglionic sympathetic axons and chromaffin cell precursors to establish the adrenal medulla
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1242/dev.162552
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.162552
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2018. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056904
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