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Development of the anterior commissure in the opossum: Midline extracellular space and glia coincide with early axon decussation
Authors:D M Cummings  D Malun  P C Brunjes
Abstract:While the anterior commissure has been shown to be an important route of information transfer in the forebrain, relatively little is known about its anatomical development. Glial substrates and extracellular spaces have been associated with the maturation of other large-fiber tracts, such as the corpus callosum and retinofugal pathway. The present study examined early stages in the maturation of the commissure in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica. Monodelphis offspring are born after a short 14-day gestation, and, unlike in rats and mice, the anterior commissure develops entirely during the postnatal period. A number of techniques were employed: the carbocyanine dye Dil was used to label early axons in the region, semithin plastic sections were used to examine the extracellular environment of the developing commissure, and immunocytochemistry for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was used to characterize glial components. Results suggest that the first commissural fibers that cross the midline pass through a region of large extracellular spaces and may use GFAP-immunoreactive cells and processes as guides during their midline decussation. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Neurobiol 32: 403–414, 1997.
Keywords:anterior commissure  glia  extracellular space  axonal pathfinding  Monodelphis domestica
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