Project description:Global transcriptional analysis of the brain of multiple system atrophy model mice after synuclein induction by tamoxifen. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is pathologically characterized by accumulation of phosphorylated α-synuclein in the oligodendrocytes. The pathophisiological mechinism under the early staige of disease pregression has been unknown. To clarify molecular alteration just after α-synuclein overexpression in the oligodendrocytes, we performed whole transcriptome analysis of the brain obtained from MSA model mice and control at 10 days after α-synuclein induction.
Project description:Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal rapidly progressive α-synucleinopathy, characterized by prominent α-synuclein accumulation in oligodendrocytes. In this study we investigated mRNA expression in substantia nigra of MSA transgenic mice (Tg(Plp1-SNCA)1Haa) and wild type controls. This forms part of a larger study in which we investigated miRNA-mRNA regulatory network in substantia nagra and striatum of MSA transgenic mice in pre-motor stage of neurodegenration.
Project description:Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal rapidly progressive α-synucleinopathy, characterized by prominent α-synuclein accumulation in oligodendrocytes. In this study we used Exiqon microarrays to investigate micro RNA expression in substantia nigra and striatum of MSA transgenic mice (Tg(Plp1-SNCA)1Haa) and wild type controls. This forms part of a larger study in which we investigated miRNA-mRNA regulatory network in substantia nagra and striatum of MSA transgenic mice in pre-motor stage of neurodegenration.
Project description:We developed a novel mice model of multiple system atrophy (MSA)-cerebellar type (MSA-C) by over-expression of human mutant α-synuclein (α-syn) in oligodendrocyte using Tet-off system. We identified distinct microglial subpopulations in a novel MSA-C model mice.
Project description:Human brain tissue was collected post mortem from patients diagnosed with multiple system atrophy (n=45) and from controls (n=30) in order to perform a comparative quantitative proteome profiling of tissue from the prefrontal cortex (Broadman area 9).