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A panel of macroautophagy markers in lymphomonocytes of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Sala, Gessica; Tremolizzo, Lucio; Melchionda, Laura; Stefanoni, Giovanni; Derosa, Matteo; Susani, Emanuela; Pagani, Ambrogio; Perini, Michele; Pettini, Paola; Tavernelli, Fiorella; Zarcone, Davide; Ferrarese, Carlo.
Afiliación
  • Sala G; Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Technologies, University of Milano-Bicocca. via Cadore 48, Monza (MB), Italy. gessica.sala@unimib.it
Amyotroph Lateral Scler ; 13(1): 119-24, 2012 Jan.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21916798
ABSTRACT
A potential role for macroautophagy dysfunction in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was hypothesized after the demonstration that selected markers are up-regulated in post mortem samples obtained from both patients and animal models of disease. We hypothesized that a putative dysfunction of this catabolic pathway could be operative also in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) obtained from ALS patients, since these cells represent an accessible model for studying molecular pathogenesis events in neuropsychiatric disorders. Beclin-1 and LC3II immunoreactivity were assessed in PBMC from 15 ALS patients and 15 controls by Western blot analysis. The expression of Atg12 mRNA was also assessed by real-time PCR. No significant difference was observed for all these parameters between patients and controls, although PBMC displayed a clear macroautophagy induction following exposure to rapamycin and lithium. Finally, we excluded a putative interference of riluzole demonstrating that LC3II immunoreactivity did not change in riluzole-treated SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. In conclusion, the results of our pilot study do not support the idea of a systemic macroautophagic dysfunction in ALS, although they confirm that PBMC are a suitable peripheral marker for monitoring the effects of drugs interfering with this catabolic pathway.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Autofagia / Leucocitos Mononucleares / Biomarcadores / Esclerosis Amiotrófica Lateral Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Aged / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: Amyotroph Lateral Scler Asunto de la revista: NEUROLOGIA Año: 2012 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Autofagia / Leucocitos Mononucleares / Biomarcadores / Esclerosis Amiotrófica Lateral Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Aged / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: Amyotroph Lateral Scler Asunto de la revista: NEUROLOGIA Año: 2012 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia