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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
卷 93, 期 -, 页码 201-214出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2016.05.014
关键词
Nerve activity; Ion channels; Excitability; Node of Ranvier; Internode
资金
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Danish Medical Research Council [12-125663]
- Ludvig and Sara Elsass Foundation
- Foundation for Research in Neurology
- Jytte and Kaj Dahlboms Foundation
Mice heterozygously deficient for the myelin protein P-o gene (Po +/-) develop a slowly progressing neuropathy modeling demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1B). The aim of the study was to investigate the long-term progression of motor dysfunction in P-o +/- mice at 3, 7, 12 and 20 months. By comparison with WI litter mates, P-o +/- showed a decreasing motor performance with age. This was associated with a progressive reduction in amplitude and increase in latency of the plantar compound muscle action potential (CMAP) evoked by stimulation of the tibial nerve at ankle. This progressive functional impairment was in contrast to the mild demyelinating neuropathy of the tibial nerve revealed by histology. Threshold-tracking studies showed impaired motor axon excitability in P-o +/- from 3 months. With time, there was a progressive reduction in threshold deviations during both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing threshold electrotonus associated with increasing resting I/V slope and increasing strength-duration time constant. These depolarizing features in excitability in P-o +/- as well as the reduced CMAP amplitude were absent in P-o +/- Na(v)1.8 knockouts, and could be acutely reversed by selective pharmacologic block of Na(v)1.8 in P-o +/-. Mathematical modeling indicated an association of altered passive cable properties with a depolarizing shift in resting membrane potential and increase in the persistent Na+ current in P-o +/-. Our data suggest that ectopic Na(v)1.8 expression precipitates depolarizing conduction failure in CMT1B, and that motor axon dysfunction in demyelinating neuropathy is pharmacologically reversible. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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