Enhanced sensitivity to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation in transgenic and knockin mouse models of Huntington's disease
| Autor: | M S, Levine, G J, Klapstein, A, Koppel, E, Gruen, C, Cepeda, M E, Vargas, E S, Jokel, E M, Carpenter, H, Zanjani, R S, Hurst, A, Efstratiadis, S, Zeitlin, M F, Chesselet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Cerebral Cortex
Male Neurons Repetitive Sequences Amino Acid Stem Cells Genetic Vectors Mice Transgenic Exons Immunohistochemistry Receptors N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors Dopamine Electrophysiology Neostriatum Mice Huntington Disease Receptors Glutamate Gene Targeting Animals Humans Female Transgenes Cell Size |
| Zdroj: | Journal of neuroscience research. 58(4) |
| ISSN: | 0360-4012 |
| Popis: | We used two mouse models of Huntington's disease (HD) to examine changes in glutamate receptor sensitivity and striatal electrophysiology. One model, a transgenic, consisted of mice expressing exon 1 of the human HD gene and carrying 141-157 CAG repeat sequences (R6/2 line). The second model, a CAG repeat "knockin," consisted of mice with different lengths of CAG repeats (CAG71 and CAG94 repeats). The effects of glutamate receptor activation were examined by visualizing neurons in brain slices with infrared videomicroscopy and differential interference contrast optics to determine changes in somatic area (cell swelling). Striatal and cortical neurons in both models (R6/2 and CAG94) displayed more rapid and increased swelling to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) than those in controls. This effect was specific as there were no consistent group differences after exposure to alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) or kainate (KA). Intracellular recordings revealed that resting membrane potentials (RMPs) in the R6/2 transgenics were significantly more depolarized than those in their respective controls. RMPs in CAG94 mice also were more depolarized than those in CAG71 mice or their controls in a subset of striatal neurons. Confirming previous results, R6/2 mice expressed behavioral abnormalities and nuclear inclusions. However, CAG71 and CAG94 knockins did not, suggesting that increased sensitivity to NMDA may occur early in the disease process. These findings imply that NMDA antagonists or compounds that alter sensitivity of NMDA receptors may be useful in the treatment of HD. |
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