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Localization of Thy-1 expression during postnatal development of the mouse cerebellar cortex

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Journal of Neurocytology

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Thy-1 is a cell membrane differentiation antigen with a restricted distribution in murine tissues. In both mice and rats the antigen is widely expressed in the CNS, while in the neonatal cerebellum it is expressed at very low levels. We have devised a protocol of immersion fixation by freeze-substitution that preserves both antigenicity and tissue morphology. We have stained freeze-substituted tissue sections of developing mouse cerebella with monoclonal anti-Thy-1. Thy-1 is faintly detectable at birth in Purkinje cells and in the molecular layer. The intensity in these two sites increases to a maximum at day 9; this subsequently decreases in the Purkinje cell cytoplasm until most are negative by day 21, but persists in the molecular layer into adulthood. Thy-1 is not detectable in the external granular layer and is only detectable in the glomeruli of the internal granular layer. Ascending fibre tracts are positive from day 5 onwards. The chronologic and anatomic expressions of Thy-1 are compatible with a role of Thy-1 in the generation and maintenance of synapses.

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    Laurel M. Bolin & Robert V. Rouse

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Bolin, L.M., Rouse, R.V. Localization of Thy-1 expression during postnatal development of the mouse cerebellar cortex. J Neurocytol 15, 29–36 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02057902

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