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Elife ; 72018 08 23.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30136928

ABSTRACT

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the progressive degeneration of motoneurons in the primary motor cortex (pMO) and in spinal cord. However, the pathogenic process involves multiple subnetworks in the brain and functional MRI studies demonstrate an increase in functional connectivity in areas connected to pMO despite the ongoing neurodegeneration. The extent and the structural basis of the motor subnetwork remodeling in experimentally tractable models remain unclear. We have developed a new retrograde AAV9 to quantitatively map the projections to pMO in the SOD1(G93A) ALS mouse model. We show an increase in the number of neurons projecting from somatosensory cortex to pMO at presymptomatic stages, followed by an increase in projections from thalamus, auditory cortex and contralateral MO (inputs from 20 other structures remains unchanged) as disease advances. The stage- and structure-dependent remodeling of projection to pMO in ALS may provide insights into the hyperconnectivity observed in ALS patients.


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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/physiopathology , Dependovirus/metabolism , Motor Cortex/physiopathology , Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/pathology , Animals , Dendritic Spines/metabolism , Disease Models, Animal , Disease Progression , Female , Humans , Male , Mice , Motor Cortex/pathology , Mutant Proteins/metabolism , Nerve Net/pathology , Nerve Net/physiopathology , Protein Folding , Pyramidal Cells/metabolism , Pyramidal Cells/pathology , Superoxide Dismutase/metabolism , Thalamus/pathology , Thalamus/physiopathology
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