Abstract
We have employed a collagen-gel co-culture system to evaluate the influence of the hindbrain floor-plate on initial axon outgrowth from the cochlear nucleus. After 2 days in vitro, cochlear nucleus explants exhibited directed outgrowth towards co-cultured floor plate explants. Comparisons with co-cultures of cochlear nucleus/forebrain or cochlear nucleus/midbrain explants or with cochlear nucleus explants cultured alone suggest that the floor-plate has a specific chemoattractant effect on the outgrowth of the pioneer fibers of the hindbrain auditory commissure. Fiber outgrowth was not directed towards a recombinant source of the chemoattractant molecule netrin suggesting that floor plate directed outgrowth in the cochlear nucleus is not solely dependent on netrin. In the present report, we present evidence for the first time that the floor-plate is a chemotropic source in pathfinding of second-order auditory fibers from the cochlear nucleus in the hindbrain.
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