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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 364-370Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.1087
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neurofilament; aging; axonal transport; NF-M; Klotho
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We reported previously that neurofilaments (NFs) of aged rats were highly packed in the axon and contained a smaller amount of NF-M as compared with those of young rats (Uchida et al. [1999] J. Neurosci. Res. 58,337-348), We studied NFs of the mutant mouse, named Klotho, which displays prematurely symptoms resembling human aging. The transport of axonal cytoskeletal proteins, including NFs, tubulin and actin, was decreased at the leading portion of the peak of transported proteins in Klotho during the process of premature aging. The nearest neighbor inter-NF distance in Klotho axone (35-39 nm) was shorter than that of the wild-type mouse (48-49 nm), indicating the packing of NFs in Klotho. The ratio of NF-M to NF-L was slightly decreased in cytoskeletons from the spinal cords of Klotho. These changes ave similar, though not identical, to those observed in aged rats, and are the first evidence of age-related changes in the neurons of Klotho. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss,Inc.
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