Involvement of postnatal apoptosis on sex difference in number of cells generated during late fetal period in the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area in rats

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• 作者：Yukinori Kato^a ; Shizuka Nakashima^a ; Fumihiko Maekawa^b ; Shinji Tsukahara^a ; ^{stsuka@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp}
• 关键词：Sex difference ; Sexually dimorphic nucleus ; Preoptic area ; Neurogenesis ; Apoptosis
• 刊名：Neuroscience Letters
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：52_03043940
• 类别：neu
• 出版时间：16 May, 2012
• 卷：516
• 期：2
• 页码：290-295
• 文件大小：935 K

摘要

Postnatal apoptosis is involved in formation of the sex difference in neuron number of the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area (SDN-POA) in rats. In this study, we examined the origin of neurons that die with apoptosis on the postnatal period to exhibit the sex difference in neuron number of the SDN-POA. First, we measured the number of cells that were labeled with 5-bromo-2鈥?deoxyuridine (BrdU) on embryonic day (ED) 17, ED18, and ED19 in the SDN-POA of rats on postnatal day (PD) 4 and PD8. The SDN-POA had many more cells labeled with BrdU on ED17 and ED18 than those on ED19. Significantly fewer cells labeled with BrdU on ED18 in the female SDN-POA from PD4 to PD8 resulted in a significant sex difference in the number at PD8. Next, combination analyses of BrdU-labeling and immunohistochemistry for single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), an apoptotic marker, were succeeded to investigate whether SDN-POA neurons generated during ED17-18 were removed by apoptosis. Many more ssDNA-immunoreactive cells that had been labeled with BrdU during ED17-18 were found in the SDN-POA of PD8 females, but few in the SDN-POA of PD8 males and PD4 females and males. These results suggest that the sex difference in the number of SDN-POA neurons generated during the late fetal period was caused by postnatal apoptosis.