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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 188, 期 6, 页码 1447-1456出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2018.03.002
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- Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [1037746, 1081916, 1132524, 1143848, 1095215, 1143978]
- Australian Research Council [DP150104321, DP170100781, DP170100843]
- Motor Neurone Disease Australia [GIA1824]
- University of New South Wales
- NHMRC R.D. Wright Biomedical Fellow grant [1123564]
- NHMRC Senior Research Fellow grant [1103258]
- NHMRC Principal Research Fellow grant [1136241]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressing and fatal disease characterized by muscular atrophy because of loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Histopathologically, most patients with ALS have abnormal cytoplasmic accumulation and aggregation of the nuclear RNA-regulating protein TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43). Pathogenic mutations in the TARDBP gene that encode TDP-43 have been identified in familial ALS. We have previously reported transgenic mice with neuronal expression of human TDP-43 carrying the pathogenic A315T mutation (iTDP-43(A315T) mice), presenting with early-onset motor deficits in adolescent animals. Here, we analyzed aged iTDP-43(A315T) mice, focusing on the spatiotemporal profile and progression of neurodegeneration in upper and Lower motor neurons. Magnetic resonance imaging and histologic analysis revealed a differential loss of upper motor neurons in a hierarchical order as iTDP-43(A315T) mice aged. Furthermore, we report progressive gait problems, profound motor deficits, and muscle atrophy in aged iTDP-43(A315T) mice. Despite these deficits and TDP-43 pathologic disorders in lower motor neurons, stereological analysis did not show cell loss in spinal cords. Taken together, neuronal populations in aging iTDP-43(A315T) mice show differential susceptibility to the expression of human TOP-43(A315T).
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