SMN expression is required in motor neurons to rescue electrophysiological deficits in the SMNΔ7 mouse model of SMA
العنوان: | SMN expression is required in motor neurons to rescue electrophysiological deficits in the SMNΔ7 mouse model of SMA |
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المؤلفون: | Foust Kevin, Arthur H. M. Burghes, Anton J. Blatnik, Phillip G. Zaworski, Chitra C. Iyer, Vicki L. McGovern, Sara E. Gombash, W. David Arnold |
المصدر: | Human Molecular Genetics. 24:5524-5541 |
بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015. |
سنة النشر: | 2015 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | animal diseases, Action Potentials, Mice, Transgenic, SMN1, Biology, Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, Mice, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, Motor unit number estimation, Muscle, Skeletal, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), Proximal spinal muscular atrophy, Sequence Deletion, Motor Neurons, Skeletal muscle, Original Articles, General Medicine, Anatomy, Motor neuron, SMA, Survival of Motor Neuron 1 Protein, Electrophysiological Phenomena, nervous system diseases, Compound muscle action potential, Motor unit, Disease Models, Animal, medicine.anatomical_structure, nervous system, Neuroscience |
الوصف: | Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most frequent cause of hereditary infant mortality. SMA is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder that results from the loss of the Survival Motor Neuron 1 (SMN1) gene and retention of the SMN2 gene. The SMN2 gene produces an insufficient amount of full-length SMN protein that results in loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and subsequent muscle paralysis. Previously we have shown that overexpression of human SMN in neurons in the SMA mouse ameliorates the SMA phenotype while overexpression of human SMN in skeletal muscle had no effect. Using Cre recombinase, here we show that either deletion or replacement of Smn in motor neurons (ChAT-Cre) significantly alters the functional output of the motor unit as measured with compound muscle action potential and motor unit number estimation. However ChAT-Cre alone did not alter the survival of SMA mice by replacement and did not appreciably affect survival when used to deplete SMN. However replacement of Smn in both neurons and glia in addition to the motor neuron (Nestin-Cre and ChAT-Cre) resulted in the greatest improvement in survival of the mouse and in some instances complete rescue was achieved. These findings demonstrate that high expression of SMN in the motor neuron is both necessary and sufficient for proper function of the motor unit. Furthermore, in the mouse high expression of SMN in neurons and glia, in addition to motor neurons, has a major impact on survival. |
تدمد: | 1460-2083 0964-6906 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::efa202b64230e5355320b5e6619b82b4 https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv283 |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....efa202b64230e5355320b5e6619b82b4 |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 14602083 09646906 |
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