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Selective formation of certain advanced glycation end products in spinal cord astrocytes of humans and mice with superoxide dismutase-1 mutation

Recent studies have documented carbonyl stress involvement in the pathogenesis of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim of the present study was to assess a role for carbonyl stress in motor neuron degeneration associated with superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) mutant familial ALS and its...

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Published in:Acta neuropathologica 2002-08, Vol.104 (2), p.171-178
Main Authors: SHIBATA, Noriyuki, HIRANO, Asao, HEDLEY-WHYTE, E. Tessa, DAL CANTO, Mauro C, NAGAI, Ryoji, UCHIDA, Koji, HORIUCHI, Seikoh, KAWAGUCHI, Motoko, YAMAMOTO, Tomoko, KOBAYASHI, Makio
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Summary:Recent studies have documented carbonyl stress involvement in the pathogenesis of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim of the present study was to assess a role for carbonyl stress in motor neuron degeneration associated with superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) mutant familial ALS and its transgenic mouse model, using an immunohistochemical investigation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and advanced lipoxidation end products (ALEs). In the spinal cords from six familial ALS patients with SOD1 A4V mutation and six transgenic mice expressing G93A mutant human SOD1, immunoreactivities for N(epsilon)-(carboxyethyl)lysine, argpyrimidine, pyrraline and N(epsilon)-(carboxymethyl)lysine as AGEs were distinct in almost all of the reactive astrocytes and obscure in the residual neurons, whereas no immunoreactivity for pentosidine as an AGE, or 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-histidine, malondialdehyde-lysine or acrolein-lysine as ALEs was detectable. Spinal cords from age-matched control humans and mice exhibited no significant immunoreactivities for the examined products. Our results indicate that protein glycation, but not lipid peroxidation, is enhanced in ALS patients with an SOD1 mutation and mutant SOD1 transgenic mice, in which certain AGEs are selectively formed in the spinal cord astrocytes.
ISSN:0001-6322
1432-0533
DOI:10.1007/s00401-002-0537-5