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Neonatal estradiol stimulation prevents epilepsy in Arx model of X-linked infantile spasms syndrome.


ABSTRACT: Infantile spasms are a catastrophic form of pediatric epilepsy with inadequate treatment. In patients, mutation of ARX, a transcription factor selectively expressed in neuronal precursors and adult inhibitory interneurons, impairs cell migration and causes a major inherited subtype of the disease X-linked infantile spasms syndrome. Using an animal model, the Arx((GCG)10+7) mouse, we determined that brief estradiol (E2) administration during early postnatal development prevented spasms in infancy and seizures in adult mutants. E2 was ineffective when delivered after puberty or 30 days after birth. Early E2 treatment altered mRNA levels of three downstream targets of Arx (Shox2, Ebf3, and Lgi1) and restored depleted interneuron populations without increasing GABAergic synaptic density. Postnatal E2 treatment may induce lasting transcriptional changes that lead to enduring disease modification and could potentially serve as a therapy for inherited interneuronopathies.

SUBMITTER: Olivetti PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034383 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neonatal estradiol stimulation prevents epilepsy in Arx model of X-linked infantile spasms syndrome.

Olivetti Pedro R PR   Maheshwari Atul A   Noebels Jeffrey L JL  

Science translational medicine 20140101 220


Infantile spasms are a catastrophic form of pediatric epilepsy with inadequate treatment. In patients, mutation of ARX, a transcription factor selectively expressed in neuronal precursors and adult inhibitory interneurons, impairs cell migration and causes a major inherited subtype of the disease X-linked infantile spasms syndrome. Using an animal model, the Arx((GCG)10+7) mouse, we determined that brief estradiol (E2) administration during early postnatal development prevented spasms in infancy  ...[more]

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