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Dependence of reversibility and progression of mouse neuronopathic Gaucher disease on acid beta-glucosidase residual activity levels.
Xu, You-Hai; Reboulet, Rachel; Quinn, Brian; Huelsken, Joerg; Witte, David; Grabowski, Gregory A.
Afiliação
  • Xu YH; The Divisions of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 4006, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA.
Mol Genet Metab ; 94(2): 190-203, 2008 Jun.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18346921
ABSTRACT
Genetic and chemically induced neuronopathic mouse models of Gaucher disease were developed to facilitate understanding of the reversibility and/or progression of CNS involvement. The lethality of the skin permeability barrier defect of the complete gene knock out [gba, (glucocerebrosidase) GCase] was avoided by conditional reactivation of a low activity allele (D409H) in keratinocytes (kn-9H). In kn-9H mice, progressive CNS disease and massive glucosylceramide storage in tissues led to death from CNS involvement by the age of 14 days. Conduritol B epoxide (CBE, a covalent inhibitor of GCase) treatment (for 8-12 days) of wild type, D409H, D409V or V394L homozygotes recapitulated the CNS phenotype of the kn-9H mice with seizures, tail arching, shaking, tremor, quadriparesis, extensive neuronal degeneration loss and apoptosis, and death by the age of 14 days. Minor CNS abnormalities occurred after daily CBE injections of 100 mg/kg/day for 6 doses, but neuronal degeneration was progressive and glucosylceramide storage persisted in D409V homozygotes in the 2 to 5 months after CBE cessation; wild type and D409H mice had persistent neurological damage without progression. The persistent CNS deterioration, histologic abnormalities, and glucosylceramide storage in the CBE-treated D409V mice revealed a threshold level of GCase activity necessary for the prevention of progression of CNS involvement.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Doença de Gaucher / Glucosilceramidase / Inositol Limite: Animals Idioma: En Revista: Mol Genet Metab Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR / BIOQUIMICA / METABOLISMO Ano de publicação: 2008 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Doença de Gaucher / Glucosilceramidase / Inositol Limite: Animals Idioma: En Revista: Mol Genet Metab Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR / BIOQUIMICA / METABOLISMO Ano de publicação: 2008 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos