THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY 231:385-395 (1985) Afferent Influences on Brain Stem Auditory Nuclei of the Chicken: Cessation of Amino Acid Incorporation as an Antecedent to Age-Dependent Transneuronal Degeneration
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Previous studies of the avian auditory system have revealed that removal of the peripheral receptor (the cochlea) leads to a transneuronal degeneration of auditory relay neurons in nucleus magnocellularis (NM)of the brain stem. An early manifestation of the degeneration which can be observed within 12 hours is a decrease of histochemical staining for RNA (Nissl staining); such a decrease could relect an alteration in protein synthetic activity within the NM neurons. The present study evaluates this possibility by determining whether the cochlea removal led to an alteration incorporation of protein precursors in the target neurons which exhibit transneuronal degeneration and if so, how early the changes appeared. The cochlea was removed unilaterally in seventeen 10-day-oldchicks and two 66week-oldmature chickens, and incorporation of protein precursors was evaluated in the neurons of NM at 0.5, 1.5, 3, 6, 12, and 24 hours following the cochlea removal. Each chick received an intravenous injection of3H leucine, and was allowed to survive for 30 minutes after the injection of precursor. The brains were then prepared for autoradiography. The extent of incorporation by neurons in NM was determined by counting grains overlying each cell body and determining grain densityl,um2 of neuron cross-sectional area. Wefound that auditory relay neurons whose synaptic inputs have been silenced exhibit dramatic decreases in protein synthesis within 30 minutes after removal of the cochlea; leucine incorporation was reduced by about 50%. In chicks sacrificed 3 to 24 hours after removal of the cochlea, some neurons (about 1/3) were entirely unlabeled despite heavy labeling of their neighbors and heavy labeling of all NM neurons on the opposite side of the brain. The remaining neurons exhibited about a 15%reduction in incorporation in comparison with the cells in the contralateral (control) NM. While the decreases in incorporation were apparent at all survival intervals, there was no consistent decrease in Nissl staining until 6 hours after cochlea removal. There were no changes in protein precursor incorporation following removal of the cochlea in adult birds, a result which is in keeping with the relative absence of transneuronal degeneration following removal of the cochlea at maturity. The results suggest a very rapid transneuronal regulation ofprotein metabolism within target neurons in young animals, perhaps by activity-related events,
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