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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1165811
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; sympathetic neurons; skeletal muscle innervation; SOD1(G93A) mutation; sympathetic neurodegeneration
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In this study, the sympathetic innervation of normal and ALS muscles was compared through the structural analysis of the sympathetic network in human and murine tissue samples. The results showed that ALS murine muscles exhibited denervation of sympathetic neurons, which began in the early stage of the disease and worsened with aging. Similar neuronal degeneration was also observed in muscle biopsies from an ALS patient carrying the SOD1(G93A) mutation. This suggests that sympathetic neurons are also compromised in ALS and that dysfunctional muscles in ALS affect their sympathetic innervation.
Rationale: The anatomical substrate of skeletal muscle autonomic innervation has remained underappreciated since it was described many decades ago. As such, the structural and functional features of muscle sympathetic innervation are largely undetermined in both physiology and pathology, mainly due to methodological limitations in the histopathological analysis of small neuronal fibers in tissue samples. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neuromuscular disease which mainly targets motor neurons, and despite autonomic symptoms occurring in a significant fraction of patients, peripheral sympathetic neurons (SNs) are generally considered unaffected and, as such, poorly studied. Purpose: In this research, we compared sympathetic innervation of normal and ALS muscles, through structural analysis of the sympathetic network in human and murine tissue samples. Methods and Results: We first refined tissue processing to circumvent methodological limitations interfering with the detection of muscle sympathetic innervation. The optimized Neuro Detection Protocol (NDP) was validated in human muscle biopsies, demonstrating that SNs innervate, at high density, both blood vessels and skeletal myofibers, independent of the fiber metabolic type. Subsequently, NDP was exploited to analyze sympathetic innervation in muscles of SOD1(G93A) mice, a preclinical ALS model. Our data show that ALS murine muscles display SN denervation, which has already initiated at the early disease stage and worsened during aging. SN degeneration was also observed in muscles of MLC/SOD1(G93A) mice, with muscle specific expression of the SOD1(G93A) mutant gene. Notably, similar alterations in SNs were observed in muscle biopsies from an ALS patient, carrying the SOD1(G93A) mutation. Conclusion: We set up a protocol for the analysis of murine and, more importantly, human muscle sympathetic innervation. Our results indicate that SNs are additional cell types compromised in ALS and suggest that dysfunctional SOD1(G93A) muscles affect their sympathetic innervation.
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