Glial-guided granule neuron migration in vitro: a high-resolution time- lapse video microscopic study
Abstract
To study neuronal migration, migrating granule neurons in microcultures prepared from early postnatal cerebellum have been analyzed with time-lapse, video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy. The morphology of migrating neurons resembles the elongated forms of migrating neurons described both in vivo and in vitro (Rakic, 1971; Hatten et al., 1984). The neuron closely apposes its soma along the glial fiber and extends a thickened leading process in the direction of migration. This leading tip is highly motile, with several filopodial extensions. Intracellular vesicular structures extend from the nucleus into the leading process of migrating neurons in vitro. Quantitation of the motions of migrating neurons revealed a saltatory pattern of advance along the glial fiber. Periods of cell soma movement at the rate of 56 +/- 26 micron/hr along the glial fiber are punctuated by periods during which the cell soma slows to a complete stop. The overall rate of migration is 33 +/- 20 micron/hr. The growing tip of the leading process rapidly extends and retracts, resulting in a net advance along the glial fiber. However, the periods of the extension and retraction of the leading process growing tip are not synchronized with the motions of the cell soma.
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