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Normal Cerebellar Development in S100B-Deficient Mice

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The calcium-binding protein S100B has been shown to support neuron proliferation, migration and neurite growth in vitro, while the significance of S100B for neuronal development in vivo is controversial. We have investigated the effect of S100B deficiency on cerebellar development in S100B knockout mice at an age of 5 and 10 days after birth (P5 and P10). This time range covers important developmental steps in the cerebellum such as granule cell proliferation and migration, as well as dendritic growth of Purkinje cells. Bergmann glial cells contain a particularly high concentration of S100B and serve as scaffold for both migrating granule cells and growing Purkinje cell dendrites. This renders the postnatal cerebellum ideal as a model system to study the importance of S100B for glial and neuronal development. We measured the length of Bergmann glial processes, the width of the external granule cell layer as a measure of granule cell proliferation, the decrease in width of the external granule cell layer between P5 and P10 as a measure of granule cell migration, and the length of Purkinje cell dendrites in wild-type and S100B knockout mice. None of these parameters showed significant differences between wild-type and knockout mice. In addition, wild-type and knockout mice performed equally in locomotor behaviour tests. The results indicate that S100B-deficient mice have normal development of the cerebellum and no severe impairment of motor function.

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Acknowledgments

We thank M. Doengi, C. Schettler (Münster) and A. C. Rakete (Hamburg) for technical assistance. Financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (LO 779/6) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Alexander Marks (Toronto) for kindly providing two breeding pairs of S100B knockout mice.

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    Björn Bluhm, Björn Laffer, Daniela Hirnet & Christian Lohr

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, D-48149, Münster, Germany

    Matthias Rothermundt & Oliver Ambree

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Bluhm, B., Laffer, B., Hirnet, D. et al. Normal Cerebellar Development in S100B-Deficient Mice. Cerebellum 14, 119–127 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-014-0606-z

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