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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 1500-1510Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.110
Keywords
astrocyte; glucose metabolism; Huntington's disease; oxidative stress
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- Fondation de la Recherche Medicale
- ECOS-Sud program [C10S04]
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeat expansions in the huntingtin (Htt) gene. Although early energy metabolic alterations in HD are likely to contribute to later neurodegenerative processes, the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for these metabolic alterations are not well characterized. Using the BACHD mice that express the full-length mutant huntingtin (mHtt) protein with 97 glutamine repeats, we first demonstrated localized in vivo changes in brain glucose use reminiscent of what is observed in premanifest HD carriers. Using biochemical, molecular, and functional analyses on different primary cell culture models from BACHD mice, we observed that mHtt does not directly affect metabolic activity in a cell autonomous manner. However, coculture of neurons with astrocytes from wild-type or BACHD mice identified mutant astrocytes as a source of adverse non-cell autonomous effects on neuron energy metabolism possibly by increasing oxidative stress. These results suggest that astrocyte-to-neuron signaling is involved in early energy metabolic alterations in HD.
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