Calcium-Binding Proteins in the Central Nervous System.

α3Na+/K+-ATPase Deficiency Causes Brain Ventricle Dilation and Abrupt Embryonic Motility in Zebrafish

“…Parvalbumin is expressed preferentially in a subpopulation of GABAergic neurons in mice, overlapping with the ␣ 3 Na ϩ /K ϩ -ATPase expression (8,61,62). Parvalbumin modulates short term synaptic plasticity (63) and thus compliments the signaling role of the ␣ 3 Na ϩ /K ϩ -ATPase in synaptic plasticity and in dendritic growth in cortical neurons (64).…”

Characterization of cochlear nucleus principal cells of Meriones unguiculatus and Monodelphis domestica by use of calcium-binding protein immunolabeling

“…These proteins are widely dispersed throughout the cytosol of the neurons up to its thinnest processes. Thus, antibodies against these CaBPs are excellent tools to visualize the neuronal architecture and to provide almost Golgi-like staining (for reviews see Baimbridge et al, 1992;Andressen et al, 1993;Seto-Ohshima, 1994). The labeling can even help to reveal specific connectivities between afferents and their target neurons (Baimbridge et al, 1992;Kevetter and Leonard, 1997).…”

Calcium Binding Protein Immunoreactivity in Nucleus Rotundus in a Reptile, <i>Caiman crocodilus</i>

“…The present experiments investigated whether rotundal core neurons were a single or heterogeneous population by an independent approach, immunocytochemistry, using antibodies to the calcium binding proteins, calbindin/calretinin and parvalbumin, which label specific neuronal aggregates and cell populations in the central nervous system of other vertebrates [Andressen et al, 1993;Seto-Ohshima, 1994]. Observations at the light microscope level were performed to answer the following questions.…”