Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages 222-233Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24127
Keywords
ALS; CSPG; LAR; PTP sigma; reactive astrocyte; SOD1
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- Research Committee of CNS Degenerative Diseases from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [16K15474]
- Research Committee on Establishment of Novel Treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, AMED
- [25293199]
- [26461288]
- [16H05318]
- [15H05667]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K15474, 16J00431, 15K16486, 15H05667] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Progressive and systemic loss of motor neurons with gliosis in the central nervous system (CNS) is a neuropathological hallmark of ALS. Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) are the major components of the extracellular matrix of the mammalian CNS, and they inhibit axonal regeneration physically by participating to form the glial scar. Recently, protein tyrosine phosphatase sigma (PTP sigma) and leukocyte common antigen-related protein were discovered as CSPG receptors that play roles in inhibiting regeneration. Here we examined the expression of CSPG receptors in transgenic female rats overexpressing an ALS-linked mutant cytosolic Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1). In contrast to controls, multiple immunofluorescence analyses revealed aberrant expression of CSPG receptors dominantly in reactive astrocytes, while PTP sigma expression in neurons decreased in the spinal ventral horns of ALS transgenic rats. The aberrant and progressive astrocytic expression of CSPG receptors and reactive astrocytes themselves may be therapeutic targets for reconstructing a regeneration-supportive microenvironment under neurodegenerative conditions such as ALS.
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