RGD Reference Report - Deficiency in endothelin receptor B reduces proliferation of neuronal progenitors and increases apoptosis in postnatal rat cerebellum. - Rat Genome Database

RGD Reference Report - Deficiency in endothelin receptor B reduces proliferation of neuronal progenitors and increases apoptosis in postnatal rat cerebellum. - Rat Genome Database

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Deficiency in endothelin receptor B reduces proliferation of neuronal progenitors and increases apoptosis in postnatal rat cerebellum.
Authors:	Vidovic, M Chen, MM Lu, QY Kalloniatis, KF Martin, BM Tan, AH Lynch, C Croaker, GD Cass, DT Song, ZM
Citation:	Vidovic M, etal., Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2008 Dec;28(8):1129-38. Epub 2008 Aug 6.
RGD ID:	4892578
Pubmed:	PMID:18683040 (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI:	DOI:10.1007/s10571-008-9292-z (Journal Full-text)
Endothelins regulate cellular functions in the mammalian brain through the endothelin receptors A and B (EDNRA and EDNRB). In this study, we investigated the role of EDNRB on cell proliferation in the cerebellum by using the spotting lethal (sl) rat, which carries a naturally occurring deletion in the EDNRB gene. Proliferating cells in the three genotypes, wild-type (+/+), heterozygous (+/sl) and homozygous mutant (sl/sl) rats were labelled by intraperitoneal injection of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) at postnatal day 2. The density of BrdU-positive cells (per mm(2)) in the external germinal layer of sl/sl rats (Mean +/- SEM, 977 +/- 388) was significantly reduced compared to +/+ (4915 +/- 631) and +/sl (2304 +/- 557) rats. Subsequently, we examined the effects of EDNRB mutation on neural apoptosis by terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labelling assay. This showed that the density of apoptotic cells in the cerebella of sl/sl rats (9.3 +/- 0.5/mm(2)) was significantly more increased than +/+ rats (4 +/- 0.7). The expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) were measured with standard ELISA, but were unchanged in all genotypes. These results suggest that ENDRB mediates neural proliferation and have anti-apoptotic effects in the cerebellum of the postnatal rat, and that these effects are independent of changes in the expression of BDNF and GDNF. Our findings will lead to better understanding of the morphological changes in the cerebellum of Hirschsprung's disease patients with congenital EDNRB mutation.

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Object Symbol	Species	Term	Qualifier	Evidence	With	Notes	Source	Original Reference(s)
Ednrb	Rat	negative regulation of apoptotic process		IMP			RGD
Ednrb	Rat	positive regulation of cell population proliferation		IMP			RGD

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Object Symbol	Species	Term	Qualifier	Evidence	With	Notes	Source	Original Reference(s)
Ednrb	Rat	decreased neuron apoptosis		IMP			RGD
Ednrb	Rat	increased cell proliferation		IMP			RGD

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Ednrb (endothelin receptor type B)

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