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Accumulation of misfolded SOD1 in dorsal root ganglion degenerating propioceptive sensory neurons of transgenic mice with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Autor/a:
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Sábado, Javier; Casanovas i Llorens, Anna; Tarabal Mostazo, Olga; Hereu, Marta; Piedrafita Llorens, Lídia; Calderó i Pardo, Jordi; Esquerda Colell, Josep
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting upper and lower motoneurons (MNs). Although the motor phenotype is a hallmark for ALS, there is increasing evidence that systems other than the efferent MN system can be involved. Mutations of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) gene cause a proportion of familial forms of this disease. Misfolding and aggregation of mutant SOD1 exert neurotoxicity in a noncell autonomous manner, as evidenced in studies using transgenic mouse models. Here, we used the SOD1(G93A) mouse model for ALS to detect, by means of conformational-specific anti-SOD1 antibodies, whether misfolded SOD1-mediated neurotoxicity extended to neuronal types other than MNs. We report that large dorsal root ganglion (DRG) proprioceptive neurons accumulate misfolded SOD1 and suffer a degenerative process involving the inflammatory recruitment of macrophagic cells. Degenerating sensory axons were also detected in association with activated microglial cells in the spinal cord dorsal horn of diseased animals. As large proprioceptive DRG neurons project monosynaptically to ventral horn MNs, we hypothesise that a prion-like mechanism may be responsible for the transsynaptic propagation of SOD1 misfolding from ventral horn MNs to DRG sensory neurons.
The authors would like to thank Montse Ortega for her technical assistance and Claudia Cervero, Alexandra Eritja and Ariadna Salvador for their help with some of the experiments in this study. This work was supported by grants from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia and Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and cofinanced by FEDER (SAF2011-22908; SAF2012-31831). |
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-Esclerosis lateral amiotrófica
-Neuronas motoras
-SOD1
-Schwann-cells
-Mouse model
-Peripheral-nerves
-Fals mice
-Mitochondria
-ALS
-Esclerosi lateral amiotròfica
-Neurones motores
-Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
-Motor neurons |
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cc-by, (c) Sábado et al., 2014
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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