TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of Sweat Gland Cholinergic Differentiation Factor Depends on Innervation
AU - Habecker, Beth A.
AU - Tresser, Steven J.
AU - Rao, Mahendra S.
AU - Landis, Story C.
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PY - 1995/1
Y1 - 1995/1
N2 - Sympathetic neurons innervating sweat glands undergo a target-directed developmental switch in neurotransmitter properties. Using cultured sympathetic neurons as a bioassay for cholinergic differentiation factors, we and others found that extracts containing soluble proteins from developing and adult footpads caused the same changes in transmitter properties in sympathetic neurons in vitro that the target does in vivo. In the present studies, using footpads from Tabby mutant mice that lack sweat glands, we found that the presence of sweat glands is correlated with the presence of cholinergic differentiation activity in footpad extracts. We examined the conditions necessary for secretion of differentiation activity from primary cultures of sweat gland cells. Surprisingly, sweat gland cells cultured alone do not produce or secrete cholinergic differentiation activity. When grown in the presence of sympathetic neurons, however, gland cells induce cholinergic function, increase vasoactive intestinal peptide content, and reduce catecholamine production in the neurons. Medium conditioned by sweat gland/neuron cocultures has a similar effect on the transmitter properties of cultured sympathetic neurons, indicating that the target influence on phenotype is mediated by a secreted factor(s). The innervation-dependence of cholinergic differentiation factor production provides evidence that reciprocal interactions between neurons and sweat glands are necessary for acquisition of the mature transmitter phenotype.
AB - Sympathetic neurons innervating sweat glands undergo a target-directed developmental switch in neurotransmitter properties. Using cultured sympathetic neurons as a bioassay for cholinergic differentiation factors, we and others found that extracts containing soluble proteins from developing and adult footpads caused the same changes in transmitter properties in sympathetic neurons in vitro that the target does in vivo. In the present studies, using footpads from Tabby mutant mice that lack sweat glands, we found that the presence of sweat glands is correlated with the presence of cholinergic differentiation activity in footpad extracts. We examined the conditions necessary for secretion of differentiation activity from primary cultures of sweat gland cells. Surprisingly, sweat gland cells cultured alone do not produce or secrete cholinergic differentiation activity. When grown in the presence of sympathetic neurons, however, gland cells induce cholinergic function, increase vasoactive intestinal peptide content, and reduce catecholamine production in the neurons. Medium conditioned by sweat gland/neuron cocultures has a similar effect on the transmitter properties of cultured sympathetic neurons, indicating that the target influence on phenotype is mediated by a secreted factor(s). The innervation-dependence of cholinergic differentiation factor production provides evidence that reciprocal interactions between neurons and sweat glands are necessary for acquisition of the mature transmitter phenotype.
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U2 - 10.1006/dbio.1995.1025
DO - 10.1006/dbio.1995.1025
M3 - Article
C2 - 7851651
AN - SCOPUS:0028893861
SN - 0012-1606
VL - 167
SP - 307
EP - 316
JO - Developmental Biology
JF - Developmental Biology
IS - 1
ER -