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Physiol. Rev. 78: 307-337, 1998;
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PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS   Vol. 78 No. 2 April 1998, pp. 307-337
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

Ion Channels and Early Development of Neural Cells

KUNITARO TAKAHASHI AND YASUSHI OKAMURA

Department of Medical Physiology, Meiji College of Pharmacy, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo; and National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Agency for Industry, Science, and Technology, Tukuba, Ibaragi, Japan

Takahashi, Kunitaro, and Yasushi Okamura. Ion Channels and Early Development of Neural Cells. Physiol. Rev. 78: 307-337, 1998. --- In this review, we underscore the merits of using voltage-dependent ion channels as markers for neuronal differentiation from the early stages of uncommitted embryonic blastomeres. Furthermore, a fairly large part of the review is devoted to the descriptions of the establishment of a simple model system for neural induction derived from the cleavage-arrested eight-cell ascidian embryo by pairing a single ectodermal with a single vegetal blastomere as a competent and an inducer cell, respectively. The descriptions are focused particularly on the early developmental processes of various ion channels in neuronal and other excitable membranes observed in this extraordinarily simple system, and we compare these results with those in other significant and definable systems for neural differentiation. It is stressed that this simple system, for which most of the electronic and optical methods and various injection experiments are applicable, may be useful for future molecular physiological studies on the intracellular process of differentiation of the early embryonic cells. We have also highlighted the importance of suppressive mechanisms for cellular differentiation from the experimental results, such as epidermal commitment of the cleavage-arrested one-cell Halocynthia embryos or suppression of epidermal-specific transcription of inward rectifier channels by neural induction signals. It was suggested that reciprocal suppressive mechanisms at the transcriptional level may be one of the key processes for cellular differentiation, by which exclusivity of cell types is maintained.




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