Publication Date:
2011-11-05
Description:
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by expansion of a translated CAG repeat in Ataxin-1 (ATXN1). To determine the long-term effects of exercise, we implemented a mild exercise regimen in a mouse model of SCA1 and found a considerable improvement in survival accompanied by up-regulation of epidermal growth factor and consequential down-regulation of Capicua, which is an ATXN1 interactor. Offspring of Capicua mutant mice bred to SCA1 mice showed significant improvement of all disease phenotypes. Although polyglutamine-expanded Atxn1 caused some loss of Capicua function, further reduction of Capicua levels--either genetically or by exercise--mitigated the disease phenotypes by dampening the toxic gain of function. Thus, exercise might have long-term beneficial effects in other ataxias and neurodegenerative diseases.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232424/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232424/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fryer, John D -- Yu, Peng -- Kang, Hyojin -- Mandel-Brehm, Caleigh -- Carter, Angela N -- Crespo-Barreto, Juan -- Gao, Yan -- Flora, Adriano -- Shaw, Chad -- Orr, Harry T -- Zoghbi, Huda Y -- 1F32NS055545/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- HD24064/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- NS022920/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS045667/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS27699/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS27699-20S1/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P30 HD024064/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P30 HD024064-22/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P30 HD024064-23/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS027699/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS027699-20S1/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS027699-21/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS027699-22/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Nov 4;334(6056):690-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1212673.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22053053" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Ataxin-1
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Ataxins
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Cerebellum/metabolism
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Disease Models, Animal
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*Exercise Therapy
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Gene Knock-In Techniques
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Mutant Strains
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
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Nuclear Proteins/genetics
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Repressor Proteins/genetics/*physiology
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Spinocerebellar Ataxias/genetics/*therapy
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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