カトウ ケイコ   KATO KEIKO
  加藤 啓子
   所属   京都産業大学  生命科学部 先端生命科学科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2001/03
形態種別 その他
標題 Abnormalities of synapses and neurons in the hippocampus of neuropsin-deficient mice
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE
出版社・発行元 ACADEMIC PRESS INC
巻・号・頁 17(3),pp.600-610
著者・共著者 A Hirata,S Yoshida,N Inoue,K Matsumoto-Miyai,A Ninomiya,M Taniguchi,T Matsuyama,K Kato,H Iizasa,Y Kataoka,N Yoshida,S Shiosaka
概要 In the present study,we produced null-mutant mice of neuropsin, an extracellular matrix serine protease, to examine the neural functions of this protein particularly in the hippocampus. Golgi-Cox impregnation and NissI-staining revealed morphological change of cell soma in the mutant mice compared to wild-type mice. However, Golgi-Cox impregnation revealed no apparent change in the dendritic arborization and spine density. Quantitative electronmicroscopic analysis revealed that number of asymmetrical synapses were significantly decreased in the stratum radiatum, the major terminal field of Schaffer-collaterals, whereas free boutons still holding synaptic vesicles but with no synaptic specialization were increased in number in the same microscopic fields. An increased number of parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells (known as fast spiking cells) in mutant was also observed. These results strongly suggest that neuropsin is involved in connectivity of a group of CA1 synapses and consequently in the hippocampal networking.
DOI 10.1006/mcne.2000.0945
ISSN 1044-7431