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Transcription profiling of mouse model of succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency vs wild type litter mates reveals multiple myelin alterations

ABSTRACT: Succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder effecting approximately 350 people around the world. Patients suffering from SSADH deficiency experience language acquisition failure, memory deficiencies, autism, increased aggressive behaviors, and seizures. There is a chemical buildup of both gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) in the neurological system of these patients. The Aldh5a1-/- knock out mouse model of SSADH deficiency shows the same chemical imbalances as the human disease, with additional fatal tonic-clonic seizures at three weeks of age. The elucidation of seizure causing pathways will facilitate treatment of seizure phenotypes in diseases with related epilepsy. ,Gene expression patterns within the hippocampus, cerebellum, and cortex of SSADH deficient mice (Aldh5a1-/- mice) will be compared to wild type mice at a time point immediately prior to fatal seizures. ,We hypothesis that the SSADH deficient mice experience a dysfunction of glutamate/GABA/ glutamine neurotransmitter cycle linked to astroglial metabolism and/or uptake of neuronally-released glutamate. The increased levels of GHB and GABA lead to down regulation of GABA-B-Receptor leading to seizures. The SSADH deficient phenotype may also be caused by ongoing oxidative damage and the pathological role of succinic semialdehyde.,SSADH deficient mice (Aldh5a1-/- knock out) exhibit fatal seizures around three weeks of age. Mutant and wild type mice will be sacrificed between 17 and 19 days of life, and brain sections will be extracted and frozen (using a standard protocol). Hippocampus, cerebellum, and cortex from three mutant mice and three wild type mice will individually be expression profiled on the Affymetrix platform, giving a total of eighteen arrays. Comparative analysis will then be carried out, evaluating the transcript differences between mutant and wild type mice in each brain region.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Elizabeth Salomon

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2866 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Expression profiling reveals multiple myelin alterations in murine succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.

Donarum Elizabeth A EA Stephan Dietrich A DA Larkin Kay K Murphy Eric J EJ Gupta Maneesh M Senephansiri Henry H Switzer Robert C RC Pearl Phillip L PL Snead O Carter OC Jakobs C C Gibson K Michael KM

Journal of inherited metabolic disease 20060201 1

Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency, a rare genetic defect of GABA degradation recently modelled in mice (SSADH(-/-) mice), manifests early absence seizures that evolve into generalized convulsive seizures and lethal status epilepticus in gene-ablated mice. Disrupted GABA homeostasis, in conjunction with the epileptic phenotype and increased gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), suggested that expression profiling with the U74Av2 Affymetrix system would reveal dysregulation of rece ...[more]

PMID: 16601881

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Transcription profiling of mouse model of succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency vs wild type litter mates reveals multiple myelin alterations

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Expression profiling reveals multiple myelin alterations in murine succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.

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