Clark, HB;
Burright, EN;
Yunis, WS;
Larson, S;
Wilcox, C;
Hartman, B;
Matilla, A;
... Orr, HT; + view all
(1997)
Purkinje cell expression of a mutant SCA1 allele in transgenic mice leads to disparate effects on motor behaviours followed by a progressive cerebellar dysfunction and histological abnormalities.
Journal of Neuroscience
, 17
(19)
7385 - 7395.
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Abstract
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal dominant neurological disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat encoding a polyglutamine tract. Work presented here describes the behavioral and neuropathological course seen in mutant SCA1 transgenic mice. Behavioral tests indicate that at 5 weeks of age mutant mice have an impaired performance on the rotating rod in the absence of deficits in balance and coordination. In contrast, these mutant SCA1 mice have an increased initial exploratory behavior. Thus, expression of the mutant SCA1 allele within cerebellar Purkinje cells has divergent effects on the motor behavior of juvenile animals: a compromise of rotating rod performance and a simultaneous enhancement of initial exploratory activity. With age, these animals develop incoordination with concomitant progressive Purkinje neuron dendritic and somatic atrophy but relatively little cell loss. Therefore, the eventual development of ataxia caused by the expression of a mutant SCA1 allele is not the result of cell death per se, but the result of cellular dysfunction and morphological alterations that occur before neuronal demise.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Purkinje cell expression of a mutant SCA1 allele in transgenic mice leads to disparate effects on motor behaviours followed by a progressive cerebellar dysfunction and histological abnormalities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | transgenic mice, neurodysfunction, CAG repeat, SCA1, Purkinje cell, motor behaviour |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/184549 |
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