Method for detecting cortical neuron axonal growth guidance and application thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for detecting cortical neuron axonal growth guidance. The method comprises the following steps: preparing a stamp with a microscopy channel on a mold through polydimentylsiloxane, buckling the stamp on a glass slide for coating poly-L-lysine, adding a solution containing guidance factors and fluorescent molecules from one side of the channel so as to form parallel stripes with equal intervals after entering ducts; and performing neuron cultivation on the glass slide coated with the fluorescent stripe, observing whether newborn axon enters the stripe containing the guidance factors, and computing proportion of the newborn axon and the stripe, statistically analyzing. The method disclosed by the invention is not only in favor of understanding the forming mechanism of the neural circuit in a brain, but also has potential treatment value to the axonal degeneration and axonal injury diseases. On the basis of the method for detecting the cortical neuron axonal growth guidance, a disease model is established, the specificity expression of the secretion factor in the brain in the time and the space is simulated through exogenously giving cell secretion factor, the functional reconstruction of the neutron is induced, and the experimental basis is established for clinical translational medicine for treating above diseases.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of neuroscience, in particular to a method for detecting the axon growth orientation of cortical neurons and its application. Background technique [0002] During brain development, neurons differentiate into axons and dendrites, two regions with different functions, and form synaptic connections with other neurons for information transmission. During axon growth, long-distance pathfinding is required to establish connections with distant neurons. This process needs to be strictly regulated in order to form delicate neural circuits and complete the advanced functions of the brain. After the newborn neurons of the cerebral cortex are produced in the ventricle wall (Ventricular zone, VZ), they differentiate into two protruding cells (bipolar cells) at the front and back, and migrate outward along the radial glial fibers. During migration, leading processes differentiate into apical dendrites, and caudal proc...

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However, this method needs to select neurons with larger growth cones (such as Xenopus spinal cord neurons), and can only simply observe the influence of guiding molecules on the direction and structure of growth cones.

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