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Unit on Neuroplasticity, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 208926 ^- L! [' z. S( `8 r9 N
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Ongoing neurogenesis in the adult mammalian dentate gyrus and olfactory bulb is generally accepted, but its existence in other adult brain regions is highly controversial. We labeled newly born cells in adult rats with the S-phase marker bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and used neuronal markers to characterize new cells at different time points after cell division. In the neocortex and striatum, we found BrdU-labeled cells that expressed each of the eight neuronal markers. Their size as well as staining for -aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamic acid decarboxylase 67, calretinin and/or calbindin, suggest that new neurons in both regions are GABAergic interneurons. BrdU and doublecortin-immunoreactive (BrdU /DCX ) cells were seen within the striatum, suggesting migration of immature neurons from the subventricular zone. Surprisingly, no DCX  cells were found within the neocortex. NG2 immunoreactivity in some new neocortical neurons suggested that they may instead be generated from the NG2  precursors that reside within the cortex itself.
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Abbreviations used in this paper:  , immunoreactive; –, nonimmunoreactive; CB, calbindin; CR, calretinin; DCX, doublecortin; GABA, -aminobutyric acid; GAD-67, glutamic acid decarboxylase 67; NSE, neuron-specific enolase; SVZ, subventricular zone.
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Introduction
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It is widely believed that new neurons are added to only two regions of the adult mammalian brain: the dentate gyrus, in which new granule cells arise from an in situ dividing population, and the olfactory bulb, to which new granule cells and periglomerular cells migrate from the subventricular zone (SVZ) adjacent to the lateral ventricle. Neurogenesis in the adult neocortex was reported many years ago using tritiated thymidine combined with light microscopy or electron microscopy to show that the newborn cells had axon hillocks/initial segments as well as somatic and dendritic synapses (Altman, 1962; Kaplan, 1981). More recently, ongoing neocortical neurogenesis has been observed in both rats and macaques, using BrdU labeling and confocal microscopy to show retrograde labeling of axons and staining for the mature neuronal marker NeuN (Gould et al., 1999b, 2001; Bernier et al., 2002). However, the existence of adult neurogenesis in the neocortex is not widely accepted due to negative reports from other groups using similar methods (Kornack and Rakic, 2001; Rakic, 2002; Ehninger and Kempermann, 2003; Koketsu et al., 2003). Additional studies have found no neocortical neurogenesis in normal rodents, despite the appearance of compensatory neurogenesis after cortical damage (Gu et al., 2000; Magavi et al., 2000; Jiang et al., 2001).$ s# ^4 z3 o5 G  e

Coincident with recent reports of neocortical neurogenesis, several studies have found young neurons that appear to exit the SVZ or rostral migratory stream and migrate through subcortical white matter tracts (Gould et al., 1999b, 2001; Nacher et al., 2001; Bernier et al., 2002; Luzzati et al., 2003), suggesting that some neurons generated in the adult SVZ may incorporate into a region or regions other than the olfactory bulb. In addition to the neocortex, adult-generated neurons have recently been reported in the adult primate striatum (Bedard et al., 2002); however, three other groups have failed to find any new neurons in this structure under normal conditions (Benraiss et al., 2001; Pencea et al., 2001; Teramoto et al., 2003).3 _- p. a# M' M' Q5 p/ u  C% a
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In this study, we used the S-phase marker BrdU along with several cell-type specific immunohistochemical markers to find evidence for or against the existence of newborn neurons in the normal rat neocortex. In addition, we examined early time points after BrdU labeling to investigate whether new neurons appear to be derived from the neuronal precursors residing in the SVZ.

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New neurons in neocortex

Based on the premise that new cortical neurons would migrate from the SVZ across the subcortical white matter, we examined BrdU-immunoreactive ( ) cells in the deep portion of the rostral neocortex (Bregma 1.20–3.20 mm; Paxinos and Watson, 1998) at several time points after BrdU injection (Table I). Examination of brain sections from rats injected with BrdU 4–5 wk earlier revealed BrdU  cells that were double labeled with antibodies against each of three neuronal markers: NeuN, a marker specific for mature neurons; EAAC-1, a neuronal glutamate transporter; and HuC/D, neuron-specific RNA binding proteins (Fig. 1; Tables II and III). BrdU  cells double labeled with neuron-specific enolase (NSE), a marker of metabolically active neurons (Marangos and Schmechel, 1987), were found only at a later time point, 11–12 wk after BrdU injection (Table III). BrdU /NeuN  neurons were also observed at this longer survival time (Fig. 1).

Systematic quantitative analysis of the deepest 500 μm of the rostral neocortex (comprising layer VI and in some areas part of layer V) was done in one half section (Bregma 1.2 mm) from each of 10 rats injected 4–5 wk earlier. This analysis revealed seven BrdU  cells that were also NeuN  (4.9 ± 2.9 cells/mm3; 0.6 ± 0.3% of 798 BrdU  cells, both mean ± SEM), all with NeuN staining comparable to that of neighboring neurons. To look for additional double-labeled cells using a less time-consuming method of analysis, an additional 3.5 sections (Bregma 1.2–3.2) from each of the 10 rats were analyzed by scanning on the confocal microscope only those BrdU  cells that appeared to be NeuN  under epifluorescence. This second scan resulted in 26 cells BrdU /NeuN  cells (2.8 ± 0.9 cells/mm3; 0.4 ± 0.1% of 6826 BrdU  cells), for an overall density of 3.1 ± 1.1 cells/mm3. Variability was seen across rats: 3 of the 10 brains analyzed contained no BrdU /NeuN  cells in any of the four sections sampled, whereas one brain contained as many as 11 BrdU /NeuN  cells in four sections. High variability is also seen across individuals in the dentate gyrus (Dayer et al., 2003), where it is likely to reflect a combination of genetic and environmentally induced differences in rates of neurogenesis (Kempermann et al., 1997a,b). BrdU /NeuN  cells were observed within the infralimbic cortex, cingulate cortex, somatosensory cortex, secondary motor cortex, and claustrum. No double-labeled cells were seen in the intervening primary motor cortex, which comprised 20% of the region analyzed.% F6 ^, u. o9 A0 z

Because of their small size and lack of cytoplasmic NeuN staining, none of the cells double labeled with BrdU and neuronal markers had the appearance of pyramidal neurons. All had small nuclei, 5–10 μm in diameter, similar in size to newborn neurons previously found in the adult mammalian cortex (Kaplan, 1981; Magavi et al., 2000; Gould et al., 2001). The 33 BrdU /NeuN  cells counted above had a mean nuclear diameter of 7.6 ± 0.2 μm, and five BrdU /NSE  cells had nuclei measuring 7.4 ± 0.7 μm. This small size suggested that newborn neurons in the neocortex were interneurons, a possibility that was examined by immunostaining for the neurotransmitter -aminobutyric acid (GABA). A small fraction of 4–5-wk-old BrdU  cells were GABA  (Fig. 2, A and B). Because GABA immunoreactivity could potentially result from uptake rather than production of GABA, sections were also stained for the GABA synthesizing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 (GAD-67). No BrdU /GAD67  cells were found in the deep layers of the neocortex 4–5 wk after BrdU injection. However, several BrdU /GAD67  cells were encountered at the 11–12 wk time point (Fig. 2, C and D). Why 4–5-wk-old cells would label for GABA and not for GAD is unclear; however, strong GABA immunoreactivity and weaker GAD67 expression have previously been observed in small cortical neurons in the adult primate, where this pattern was thought to result from relatively low activity levels suggesting immature neurons (Hendrickson et al., 1994). All of the BrdU /GABA  and BrdU /GAD67  cells also had small nuclei, 7.4 ± 0.3 μm and 7.3 ± 0.3 μm in diameter, respectively. Calcium binding protein expression was examined, because functional classes of GABAergic interneurons are often identified using these markers (Gabbott and Bacon, 1996; Gabbott et al., 1997). Calbindin (CB) and calretinin (CR) immunoreactivity were each observed in 4–5-wk-old and 11–12-wk-old BrdU  cells (Fig. 3). In triple-labeled sections, no BrdU /CR  cells appeared to be CB , suggesting that there are two distinct classes of newly generated cortical interneurons or, alternatively, that new interneurons make a developmental switch from CR to CB expression like the adult-born dentate gyrus granule neurons (Brandt et al., 2003). BrdU /CR  and BrdU /CB  cells also had small nuclear diameters (7.0 ± 0.3) like cells labeled with other neuronal markers. No 4–5-wk-old BrdU /parvalbumin  cells or BrdU /somatostatin  cells were found.7 _: p2 Y0 R8 `& p$ J3 q
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Because of their close apposition to other, generally larger, cells (Figs. 2 and 3), some BrdU /GABA , BrdU /GAD67 , BrdU /CB , and BrdU /CR  cells appeared to be "satellite cells". This suggests that some satellite cells, previously described as cells that could be mistaken for the nuclei of BrdU-labeled pyramidal cells (Gould et al., 1999b; Kornack and Rakic, 2001), may actually be newly born GABAergic neurons themselves. If this is the case, BrdU /NeuN  cells may have been undercounted in the quantitative analysis, because all satellite cells were classified as NeuN-nonimmunoreactive (NeuN–) in this analysis, due to the difficulty in determining the NeuN immunoreactivity of a small cell in very close proximity to a large NeuN  cell. Even using high resolution Z-sectioning, NeuN immunoreactivity from the large neuron precludes unambiguous scoring of NeuN expression in a closely apposed BrdU  satellite cell (Fig. 4 A).
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To investigate whether new cortical neurons arise from precursors in the SVZ, coronal sections through the rostral forebrain (Bregma 0.48–2.20 mm) were immunolabeled for BrdU and the immature neuronal marker doublecortin (DCX). Several isolated BrdU /DCX  cells were observed within the subcortical white matter of the forceps minor and external capsule (Fig. 5, A–C). These cells had the appearance of migrating young neurons, with elongated cell bodies and one or two long leading processes directed away from the SVZ. Triple staining for BrdU, DCX, and the immature neuronal marker CRMP4 (sometimes referred to as TOAD-64 or TUC-4) revealed that all BrdU /DCX  cells were also CRMP4  (Fig. 5 C). Surprisingly, no DCX  cells, with or without BrdU labeling, were observed within the deep layers of the neocortex in 48 sections from 12 brains. However, a small number of 1–4-wk-old BrdU /CRMP4  cells that were DCX- were observed in this region (Fig. 5 D). It is possible that BrdU /DCX  cells enter from the subcortical white matter and down-regulate DCX as soon as they do so. However, the lack of DCX immunoreactivity in BrdU /CRMP4  cells, along with the observation that BrdU /NeuN  cells, BrdU /CB  cells, and BrdU /CR  cells often occurred in pairs

To explore this possibility, the identity of proliferating cells in the deep cortical layers was examined 2 h after BrdU injection. 92.4% ± 3.8 of 152 BrdU  cells scanned in the deepest 500 μm of the neocortex had cell bodies and processes that were immunoreactive for the chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan NG2. The majority of BrdU /NG2– cells could be identified as endothelial cells based on their distinctive morphology, i.e., a flattened and curved shape consistent with wrapping around a blood vessel (Palmer et al., 2000). None of the BrdU  neocortical cells scanned at this 2 h time point were NeuN . However, at the 4–5 wk survival time point, processes with faint to moderate NG2 immunoreactivity were observed in 2 of the 7 BrdU /NeuN  cells in one sample and in 9 of the 26 BrdU /NeuN  cells in the second sample (Fig. 5, E–G). NeuN /NG2  cells were also found in sections not stained for BrdU, indicating that colabeling was not an artifact of BrdU staining (Fig. 5 H). In rare cases, 11–12-wk-old BrdU /NeuN  neurons still displayed faint NG2 immunoreactivity.
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Nearly 60% of 4–5-wk-old BrdU  cells were NG2 /NeuN–. Many of these cells appeared to be satellites of large neurons (Fig. 4, B and C), similar to some of the BrdU  cells labeled with neuronal markers. NG2  cells were further characterized using several glial markers (Fig. 4). A recent study showed NG2 staining of EGFP  cells in S100-EGFP expressing transgenic mice (Vives et al., 2003). However, we found no NG2 /S100  cells among 130 NG2  and 118 S100  cells. Triple labeling for BrdU, NG2, and either GFAP or CNPase showed that none of the BrdU /NG2  cells expressed these astrocyte or oligodendrocyte markers. A few cells were double labeled with BrdU and either CNPase, S100, or the microglial marker Iba-1, but the number of these new glial cells was low and could not account for the 40% of BrdU  cells that were NG2– and NeuN– in the systematic analysis (Table II; Fig. 4 D).% ]6 H  d9 @. [

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To investigate the fate of BrdU /DCX  cells in the SVZ that do not follow the rostral migratory stream and do not appear to enter the cortex, we examined the region surrounding the SVZ 1–2 wk after BrdU injection. A large number of 1–2-wk-old BrdU /DCX  cells were observed in the portion of the SVZ stretching laterally from the dorsolateral corner of the lateral ventricle, between the striatum and corpus callosum (Fig. 6, A and B). Examination of the striatum revealed BrdU /DCX /CRMP4  cells whose location and morphology suggested that they could be migrating within the fiber tracts that course through the striatum (Fig. 6, B and C). A few BrdU /DCX /CRMP4  cells were also found within the striatal matrix, i.e., the portion of the striatum outside the fiber tracts, at this time point. 2 wk later (3–4 wk after BrdU injection), BrdU /DCX  cells had more branched processes (Fig. 6, E and F). BrdU /DCX /NeuN  neurons were also found in both the dorsomedial striatum and nucleus accumbens at this time point (Fig. 6, G–I). 4–5 wk after BrdU injection, BrdU /NeuN  cells in the striatum had rounder nuclei than BrdU /NeuN  cells observed at 3–4 wk (Fig. 7 A). 11–12 wk after BrdU injection, BrdU /NSE  as well as BrdU /NeuN  cells were found in the striatum (Fig. 7, B–D).% g0 K( B3 |) U1 s

BrdU /GAD67  and BrdU /CR  cells were both observed 4–5 wk after BrdU injection (Fig. 7, E–H), suggesting that newborn neurons in the striatum were GABAergic interneurons as in the neocortex. No double labeling of 4–5-wk-old BrdU  cells was found with CB, parvalbumin, or somatostatin., y' B% E6 M/ K1 Q# w- o
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The vast majority of the new neurons in the striatum, identified with NeuN, GAD-67, or CR, were found either in the nucleus accumbens or within a restricted dorsomedial region of the striatum, within 650 μm of the lateral edge of the SVZ, 10–15 times the width of the SVZ (Fig. 7 H, inset). This portion of the striatum has been found to contain large numbers of CR  interneurons and is believed to be an associative region of the striatum, corresponding to the caudate region in nonrodents (Riedel et al., 2002). 36.4 ± 7.0 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 (5.8 ± 0.9% of 995 BrdU  cells) were counted in the dorsomedial striatum at this time point. The location, immunoreactivity, and nuclear diameter (5–10 μm) of these BrdU  cells were all consistent with striatal CR  interneurons (Riedel et al., 2002).0 v4 J; L! f! [! Q

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Similarity to other neurons born in adulthood
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The findings of this study suggest that new neurons are generated in the adult rat neocortex and striatum. The relatively small, 5–10 μm, nuclear diameter of these new neurons is strikingly similar to that of granule cells in the dentate gyrus and olfactory bulb, two neuronal populations widely accepted as being generated in adulthood. Although the size of BrdU /NeuN  cells was not stated in three recent studies of adult cortical and striatal neurogenesis, the examples shown in these reports also had nuclear diameters in this same range (Magavi et al., 2000; Gould et al., 2001; Bedard et al., 2002), as did the cells in a much earlier electron microscopy study (Kaplan, 1981). The findings of these previous studies therefore appear consistent with the idea that the new neurons in the neocortex are nonpyramidal, although the techniques used did not allow identification of specific classes of neurons. In the current study, immunoreactivity for GABA/GAD-67 and calcium-binding proteins provide evidence that new cortical and striatal cells are in fact GABAergic interneurons. Distinct functional and morphological groups of GABAergic interneurons can be identified by their expression of particular calcium-binding proteins (Gabbott et al., 1997). These groups can be further subdivided into classes based on size and shape; eight classes of CB  interneurons and five classes of CR  interneurons have been described in the rat neocortex (Gabbott et al., 1997). Class 7 CB  interneurons are small, with cell body diameters of 8–14 μm, and are found in cortical layers 5 and 6 (Gabbott et al., 1997), which is consistent with cortical BrdU /CB  cells observed in the current study. Based on their location and shape, the cortical CR  cells in the current study appear to be class 4 CR  interneurons (Gabbott et al., 1997); although no specific size range was given for this particular class by Gabbott et al. (1997) the entire CR  population had relatively small cell bodies, 6–13 μm in diameter. Dentate gyrus granule cells born in the adult undergo a transition from early CR expression to later CB expression (Brandt et al., 2003), suggesting that these two classes of new interneurons found in the adult cortex might instead represent two stages of maturation of a single class of interneurons. The immunoreactivity and location of the new striatal neurons within a small region of the dorsolateral striatum and the nucleus accumbens match closely with descriptions of striatal CR  interneurons (Riedel et al., 2002); striatal interneurons have not been subdivided into multiple subclasses expressing each calcium-binding protein.' X7 \6 a2 T, d1 p7 n0 R
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The observed density of BrdU /NeuN  cells in the adult rat neocortex is remarkably consistent with that previously found in macaque cortex (Gould et al., 1999b, 2001) but seems low relative to what is seen in the adult dentate gyrus, where new neurons are known to have functional effects (Shors et al., 2001). However, the total population of dentate gyrus granule cells is very large compared with that of cortical or striatal interneurons in these classes. Additionally, the volume of the dentate gyrus granule cell layer is small compared with that of the cortex or striatum. Because these cortical and striatal interneuron populations are so small and spread out compared with granule cells, lower densities of newborn neurons do not necessarily indicate a significantly lower rate of neuron replacement or addition. Based on the differences in population size and volume, the cortex would need 0.9 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 and the striatum would need 1.3 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 to have a turnover rate equivalent to the 850 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 in the adult rat dentate gyrus (Table SI, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200407053/DC1). The current data suggest that one BrdU injection would label 0.8 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 in the deep neocortex and 9.1 BrdU /NeuN  cells/mm3 in the striatum (Table SI), indicating that the turnover rates in the neocortex and striatum may in fact be very similar to that in the dentate gyrus.5 O% M9 I- b7 F% ]/ H. s3 Q

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Our results are unlikely to result from BrdU labeling of neurons undergoing DNA repair or abortive mitosis for several reasons. First, BrdU immunostaining, using a staining protocol nearly identical to that used here, is very specific for dividing cells even after higher intraperitoneal doses of BrdU or induction of very high levels of DNA repair (Parent et al., 1999; Palmer et al., 2000; Cameron and McKay, 2001). Second, if cells undergoing DNA repair incorporated detectable amounts of BrdU, BrdU labeling should have been observed in cells of all types, including the very numerous pyramidal neurons. Third, any neurons undergoing abortive mitosis should be cleared away within three days (Hu et al., 1997; Thomaidou et al., 1997), i.e., long before the 4–5 wk and 11–12 wk time points at which we observed double-labeled cells. Fourth, BrdU  cells showed evidence of maturation of their morphology and marker expression, including late expression of NSE and GAD-67 and changes in the morphology and location of double-labeled cells within the striatum, rather than degeneration.
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These findings are also unlikely to result from staining of nonneuronal cells by neuronal markers. Although no antibody should be viewed as a perfect marker of cell identity, BrdU  cells were labeled with eight independent neuronal markers, i.e., DCX (in striatum), CRMP-4, NeuN, NSE, HuC/D, EAAC-1, GABA/GAD-67, CR, and CB (in cortex), in a time course consistent with neuronal differentiation during development and in other neurogenic regions in the adult brain. Because each of these markers is highly specific for neurons within the normal rat brain (Marangos and Schmechel, 1987; Mullen et al., 1992; Minturn et al., 1995; Rosier et al., 1995; Gabbott et al., 1997; Okano and Darnell, 1997; Gleeson et al., 1999; Danbolt, 2001; Wichterle et al., 2001), and because the probability of nonspecific labeling decreases exponentially with each additional marker, it is improbable that eight neuronal markers would aberrantly label newly born glial cells within the neocortex and striatum.* M2 l  m% _: l5 k

It is not clear why double-labeled cells were not found in the adult rodent and primate neocortex in some previous reports (Kornack and Rakic, 2001; Ehninger and Kempermann, 2003; Koketsu et al., 2003). It is possible that investigators focused on pyramidal cells, the large and easily recognized primary neurons that constitute nearly 70% of the neurons in the cortex (Douglas et al., 2004), and which were also not found to be double labeled in the current study. An additional issue is that nuclear NeuN fluorescence can be obscured by BrdU fluorescence if dual excitation filters are used to search for cells to scan with confocal lasers. This is not a concern in pyramidal cells, because they have a significant amount of NeuN  perinuclear cytoplasm. However, the NeuN expression in small interneurons is restricted to the nucleus (Mullen et al., 1992), making them very difficult to detect using dual filters. The difficulty in determining the NeuN-immunoreactivity of satellite cells adds another possible obstacle. Similar problems could occur in examining the striatum, where it might be assumed that any cell body smaller than those of the medium spiny neurons belongs to a glial cell. In addition to these issues of methods or expectations, differences in the animals' environments could also potentially affect the ability to detect new neurons. Stress, learning, and housing conditions all have significant effects on neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (Gould et al., 1997, 1999a; Kempermann et al., 1997b). Although it is not known whether these factors also affect neocortical or striatal neurogenesis, the inhibition of cortical NG2  cell proliferation by corticosteroids (Alonso, 2000) and the inter-animal variability observed in the current study suggest that they may.

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Both the morphology of BrdU /DCX  cells seen in the current study and their change in location with increasing survival time are consistent with recent reports indicating that immature neurons or neuronal precursors in the SVZ do not all join the rostral migratory stream and may instead migrate into the striatum (Gould et al., 1999b, 2001; Nacher et al., 2001; Bernier et al., 2002; Luzzati et al., 2003; Yang et al., 2004). In the neocortex, however, the lack of DCX  cells, pairing of many BrdU  cells, and coexpression of NeuN and NG2 in some newborn cells suggest that new neocortical neurons may be generated in situ from NG2  precursors rather than from precursors in the SVZ. This is somewhat surprising, because NG2 has commonly been considered to be a specific marker for oligodendrocyte precursors. However, several recent studies suggest that not all NG2  cells are committed to this oligodendrocyte lineage. First, two distinct subpopulations of NG2  cells that remain stable throughout development can be distinguished by the presence or absence of proteolipid protein expression (Mallon et al., 2002). Second, immature GABAergic neurons and NG2  cells in the developing cortex both express dlx and appear to be derived from a common progenitor in the embryonic ventral forebrain (He et al., 2001). Third, and probably the strongest evidence, is that in the postnatal hippocampus and neocortex, some cells expressing CNPase and NG2 express neuronal markers (CRMP-4, class III -tubulin, NeuN, and GAD-67), have spontaneous synaptic currents, and fire action potentials (Belachew et al., 2003; Aguirre et al., 2004; Chittajallu et al., 2004)〞all indicators of a neuronal phenotype. These findings all provide support for the idea that GABAergic cortical neurons could be derived from the NG2  cells that reside within the cortex itself. Although the current findings suggest that new neurons in the adult cortex and striatum have different immediate precursors in adulthood, they likely share a common ancestor: the dlx  cells in the medial ganglionic eminence, which give rise to both cortical and striatal GABAergic interneurons during development (Marin et al., 2000; Wichterle et al., 2001). Together, these findings suggest that some medial ganglionic eminence-derived precursor cells residing in different regions of the brain during adulthood may retain their ability to divide and generate new GABAergic interneurons.6 y/ ]4 a, N7 Q0 J

Materials and methods
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Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (300–350 g, 9–10 wk old; Charles River or Taconic Labs) were housed two per cage under a 12:12 light/dark cycle with food and water ad libitum. All rats were injected with BrdU (Boehringer-Mannheim; 300 mg/kg body weight, 10 mg/ml in 0.007N NaOH/0.9% NaCl) and killed at different survival times after BrdU injection (Table I). Three rats were given a single BrdU injection and perfused 2 h later (2 h old BrdU  cells); this short survival time labels cells that are still dividing (Cameron and McKay, 2001). Because previous studies indicate that the density of newborn neocortical neurons is very low compared with that of newborn dentate gyrus neurons (Gould et al., 2001), rats in all other groups received multiple BrdU injections to increase the numbers of labeled cells (Table I). All animal treatments conformed to NIH guidelines and were approved by the NIMH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
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Immunohistochemistry

At the selected survival time points, rats were deeply anesthetized with isoflurane inhalation and transcardially perfused with 4% PFA, pH 7.4. Brains were dissected from the skulls and fixed overnight in 4% PFA, pH 7.4. Coronal sections (50 μm) between Bregma 0.48 and 4.20 mm (Paxinos and Watson, 1998) were cut on an Oscillating Tissue Slicer 4000 (Electron Microscopy Sciences)." r8 f* V, E) [

Sections were immunofluorescently stained using the following standard procedure (exceptions are listed below): Free-floating sections were pretreated with 2 N HCl for 30 min to denature DNA; rinsed well in PBS to return pH to 7.4; incubated in blocking solution (PBS, pH 7.4, with 0.5% Tween-20 and 3% donkey or goat normal serum, depending on the secondary antibodies) for 20 min at RT; incubated in a combination of primary antibodies (Table III) in blocking serum at 4°C for 48–72 h; washed in PBS; incubated with secondary antibodies against the appropriate species (Table III); counterstained with Hoechst 33258 (bisbenzimide; Molecular Probes); and coverslipped with aqueous hardening mounting medium (Immu-mount, Shandon). Sections stained with rat anti-BrdU antibody were heated at 90°C in citric acid for 25 min (0.1 M, pH 6.0) before HCl treatment. Staining for NSE, GABA or GAD-67 combined with BrdU was performed in two steps: sections were first processed for marker staining (through primary and secondary antibodies) before proceeding to HCl treatment and anti-BrdU staining. DMSO (0.3% vol/vol) was used instead of Tween-20 for GAD-67 staining.& J! |) t. c2 R) Z* \$ y

Data analysis
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Fluorescently immunolabeled sections were analyzed on a Meta confocal microscope (model LSM 510; Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) equipped with three lasers (Argon 488, HeNe 543, and HeNe 633) and a coherent laser set at 720 nm for 2 photon UV excitation. Each channel was separately scanned using a multitrack PMT configuration to avoid cross-talk between fluorescent labels. All secondary antibody combinations were carefully examined to ensure that there was no cross-talk between fluorescent dyes or cross-reactivity between secondary antibodies. To evaluate double labeling, confocal Z sectioning was performed at 0.5–1.0-μm intervals using Plan-Neofluar 40x oil-immersion (NA = 1.30), or Plan-Apochromat 63x oil-immersion (NA = 1.40) objectives. To see labeled structures in relation to other cells, Z sectioning at wider intervals was done at 40x as above, or at 25x (Plan-Neofluar, multi-immersion, NA = 0.8). Images were acquired and three-dimensionally reconstructed using the Zeiss LSM software, cropped and optimized in Photoshop 7.0 by making minor adjustments to contrast, and arranged with line drawings in Canvas 8.0.

The proportion of 4–5-wk-old BrdU  cells in the cortex that were immunoreactive for NeuN and/or NG2 was determined in one half-section, i.e., the right or left half of a coronal section, (Bregma 1.20 mm) from each of 10 brains. All BrdU  cells located with a single row of 400x magnification optical fields (500 μm in diameter in a 50-μm-thick section) were systematically scanned to determine NeuN and NG2 immunoreactivity–starting at the midline dorsal, to the corpus callosum, and moving laterally through the deep cortical layers with the bottom edge of the field at the dorsal border of the white matter–scanning adjacent fields until the border between the white matter and cortex became difficult to establish with sufficient clarity (14–15 fields). The total volume analyzed was 14.7 fields x 3.14 x 0.25 mm x 0.25 mm x 0.05 mm = 0.14 mm3 in each of 10 brains. Each optical field extended through layers VIa and VIb, and part of layer V, depending on the cortical subregion. The scanned region of interest contained the cingulate cortex, secondary motor cortex, primary motor cortex, and primary somatosensory cortex, and ended partway through the dorsal portion of the insular claustrum. The claustrum has developmental and phylogenetic origins very close to cortex (Kowianski et al., 1999; Reblet et al., 2002) despite its past classification in some texts as part of the basal ganglia. An additional 3.5 sections (from Bregma 1.2 to 3.2 mm; Paxinos and Watson, 1998) per brain were analyzed using the same method to define the region of interest (94.2 ± 3.2 optical fields per brain; 0.92 mm3 total volume per brain). This region contained the same cortical areas as the initial sections, with the addition of the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices (Paxinos and Watson, 1998). These additional sections were first surveyed on an epifluorescence microscope equipped with separate filters for rhodamine, FITC, and DAPI. Any BrdU  cells that appeared to be NeuN  were then scanned on the confocal microscope to confirm NeuN immunoreactivity and determine NG2 immunoreactivity. The proportion of 2-h-old BrdU  cells in the neocortex that expressed NeuN and/or NG2 was quantified in one section (Bregma 1.20 mm) from each brain (28 optical fields per brain).
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For quantification of striatal neurogenesis, the percentage of BrdU  cells that were NeuN  was determined in the dorsomedial region of the striatum near the SVZ, where most BrdU  cells double labeled with neuronal markers were found in qualitative examination. All 4–5-wk-old BrdU  cells located within a single row of five 400x magnification optical fields in each of two sections (20 optical fields per brain between Bregma 1.60 and 1.20 mm) were surveyed on an epifluorescence microscope, starting at the ventral edge of the SVZ and progressing dorsolaterally keeping one edge of the field at the border of the SVZ. Only BrdU  and BrdU /NeuN  cells located within the striatum were counted, i.e., BrdU  cells touching the SVZ were not included.8 W- H' U) ^2 \5 G; a. g
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Table S1 shows a comparison of the replacement rates of newborn neurons in the adult rat cortex, striatum, and dentate gyrus based on BrdU /NeuN  cell densities found in the current study and neuronal population sizes, region volumes, and dentate gyrus BrdU /NeuN  cell density from other studies. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200407053/DC1.
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This article was funded by the NIMH Division of Intramural Research. A.G. Dayer was supported by the Swiss National Fund.& U% z4 c/ E' y$ p

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