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Astrocytes generated from patient induced pluripotent stem cells recapitulate features of Huntington’s disease patient cells

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العنوان: Astrocytes generated from patient induced pluripotent stem cells recapitulate features of Huntington’s disease patient cells
المؤلفون: Juopperi, Tarja A, Kim, Woon Ryoung, Chiang, Cheng-Hsuan, Yu, Huimei, Margolis, Russell L, Ross, Christopher A, Ming, Guo-li, Song, Hongjun
المصدر: Molecular Brain ; volume 5, issue 1 ; ISSN 1756-6606
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
سنة النشر: 2012
مصطلحات موضوعية: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology
الوصف: Background Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that clinically manifests as motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment and psychiatric symptoms. There is currently no cure for this progressive and fatal disorder. The causative mutation of this hereditary disease is a trinucleotide repeat expansion (CAG) in the Huntingtin gene that results in an expanded polyglutamine tract. Multiple mechanisms have been proposed to explain the preferential striatal and cortical degeneration that occurs with HD, including non-cell-autonomous contribution from astrocytes. Although numerous cell culture and animal models exist, there is a great need for experimental systems that can more accurately replicate the human disease. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a remarkable new tool to study neurological disorders because this cell type can be derived from patients as a renewable, genetically tractable source for unlimited cells that are difficult to acquire, such as neurons and astrocytes. The development of experimental systems based on iPSC technology could aid in the identification of molecular lesions and therapeutic treatments. Results We derived iPSCs from a father with adult onset HD and 50 CAG repeats (F-HD-iPSC) and his daughter with juvenile HD and 109 CAG repeats (D-HD-iPSC). These disease-specific iPSC lines were characterized by standard assays to assess the quality of iPSC lines and to demonstrate their pluripotency. HD-iPSCs were capable of producing phenotypically normal, functional neurons in vitro and were able to survive and differentiate into neurons in the adult mouse brain in vivo after transplantation. Surprisingly, when HD-iPSCs were directed to differentiate into an astrocytic lineage, we observed the presence of cytoplasmic, electron clear vacuoles in astrocytes from both F-HD-iPSCs and D-HD-iPSCs, which were significantly more pronounced in D-HD-astrocytes. Remarkably, the vacuolation in diseased astrocytes was observed under basal culture conditions ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-5-17
DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-5-17.pdf
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-6606-5-17Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.9629A71F
قاعدة البيانات: BASE