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| العنوان: |
Antiapoptotic protein Lifeguard is required for survival and maintenance of Purkinje and granular cells. |
| المؤلفون: |
Tatiana Hurtado de Mendoza, Perez-Garcia, Carlos G., Kroll, Todd T., Hoong, Nien H., O'Leary, Dennis D. M., Verma, Inder M. |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 10/11/2011, Vol. 108 Issue 41, p17189-17194, 6p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
PURKINJE cells, GRANULOCYTES, CELL death, LABORATORY mice, TRANSGENE expression, ANIMAL morphology |
| مستخلص: |
Lifeguard (LFG) is an inhibitor of Fas-mediated cell death and is highly expressed in the cerebellum. We investigated the biological role of LFG in the cerebellum in vivo, using mice with reduced LFG expression generated by shRNA lentiviral transgenesis (shLFG mice) as well as LFG null mice. We found that LFG plays a role in cerebellar development by affecting cerebellar size, internal granular layer (IGL) thickness, and Purkinje cell (PC) development. All these features are more severe in early developmental stages and show substantial recovery overtime, providing a remarkable example of cerebellar plasticity. In adult mice, LFG plays a role in PC maintenance shown by reduced cellular density and abnormal morphology with increased active caspase 8 and caspase 3 immunostaining in shLFG and knockout (KO) PCs. We studied the mechanism of action of LFG as an inhibitor of the Fas pathway and provided evidence of the neuroprotective role of LFG in cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) and PCs in an organotypic cerebellar culture system. Biochemical analysis of the Fas pathway revealed that LFG inhibits Fas-mediated cell death by interfering with caspase 8 activation. This result is supported by the increased number of active caspase 8-positive PCs in adult mice lacking LFG. These data demonstrate that LFG is required for proper development and survival of granular and Purkinje cells and suggest LFG may play a role in cerebellar disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
