Journal
MUSCLE & NERVE
Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 774-784Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21579
Keywords
ALS; animal model; axonal depolarization; motor neuron; nerve excitability; neurodegeneration; SOD1(G93A) mice; threshold-tracking
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- Motor Neuron Disease Association
- Brain Research Trust
- Medical Research Council [G0601943B, G0601943] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0601943] Funding Source: UKRI
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Non-invasive excitability studies of motor axons in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have revealed a changing pattern of abnormal membrane properties with disease progression, but the heterogeneity of the changes has made it difficult to relate them to pathophysiology. The SOD1(G93A) mouse model of ALS displays more synchronous motoneuron pathology. Multiple excitability measures of caudal and sciatic nerves in mutant and wild-type mice were compared before onset of signs and during disease progression (4-19 weeks), and they were related to changes in muscle fiber histochemistry. Excitability differences indicated a modest membrane depolarization in SOD1(G93A) axons at about the time of symptom onset (8 weeks), possibly due to deficient energy supply. Previously described excitability changes in ALS patients, suggesting altered sodium and potassium conductances, were not seen in the mice. This suggests that those changes relate to features of the human disease that are not well represented in the animal model. Muscle Nerve 41: 774-784,2010
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