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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 32, 期 11, 页码 3818-3829出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5775-11.2012
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- NIH [T32 AG000260]
- NIH NINDS [1ROIN5060926, 3RO1NS060926-02S3, NS034382, NS071951]
- Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Grant [DiD0809]
The loss of motor neurons (MNs) is a hallmark of the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); however, it is unclear whether this phenotype autonomously originates within the MN. To address this question, we developed an inducible mouse model of severe SMA that has perinatal lethality, decreased motor function, motor unit pathology, and hyperexcitable MNs. Using an Hb9-Cre allele, we increased Smn levels autonomously within MNs and demonstrate that MN rescue significantly improves all phenotypes and pathologies commonly described in SMA mice. MN rescue also corrects hyperexcitability in SMA motor neurons and prevents sensory-motor synaptic stripping. Survival in MN-rescued SMA mice is extended by only 5 d, due in part to failed autonomic innervation of the heart. Collectively, this work demonstrates that the SMA phenotype autonomously originates in MNs and that sensory-motor synapse loss is a consequence, not a cause, of MN dysfunction.
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