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ArticleMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2013

Bladder dysfunction in a transgenic mouse model of multiple system atrophy.

Mathieu Boudes, Pieter Uvin, Silvia Pinto, Thomas Voets, Clare J Fowler, Gregor K Wenning, Dirk De Ridder, Nadia Stefanova

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Article in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. A Mouse Model of Multiple System Atrophy: Bench to Bedside.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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  15. Models of multiple system atrophy.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mathieu BoudesLaboratory of Biomarkers, Screening and Diagnosis, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Pieter Uvin
Silvia Pinto
Thomas Voets
Clare J Fowler
Gregor K Wenning
Dirk De Ridder
Nadia Stefanova
KU Leuven · BEInnsbruck Medical University · ATUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF F 4404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder presenting with motor impairment and autonomic dysfunction. Urological function is altered in the majority of MSA patients, and urological symptoms often precede the motor syndrome. To date, bladder function and structure have never been investigated in MSA models. We aimed to test bladder function in a transgenic MSA mouse featuring oligodendroglial α-synucleinopathy and define its applicability as a preclinical model to study urological failure in MSA. Experiments were performed in proteolipid protein (PLP)-human α-synuclein (hαSyn) transgenic and control wild-type mice. Diuresis, urodynamics, and detrusor strip contractility were assessed to characterize the urological phenotype. Bladder morphology and neuropathology of the lumbosacral intermediolateral column and the pontine micturition center (PMC) were analyzed in young and aged mice. Urodynamic analysis revealed a less efficient and unstable bladder in MSA mice with increased voiding contraction amplitude, higher frequency of nonvoiding contractions, and increased postvoid residual volume. MSA mice bladder walls showed early detrusor hypertrophy and age-related urothelium hypertrophy. Transgenic hαSyn expression was detected in Schwann cells ensheathing the local nerve fibers in the lamina propria and muscularis of MSA bladders. Early loss of parasympathetic outflow neurons and delayed degeneration of the PMC accompanied the urological deficits in MSA mice. PLP-hαSyn mice recapitulate major urological symptoms of human MSA that may be linked to αSyn-related central and peripheral neuropathology and can be further used as a preclinical model to decipher pathomechanisms of MSA.

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AcetylcholineAge Factorsalpha-SynucleinAnimalsBrainDisease Models, AnimalDisease ProgressionDiuresisFemaleGene Expression RegulationHumansImage CytometryIn Vitro TechniquesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLAcetylcholinealpha-SynucleinMyelin Proteolipid ProteinPlp1 protein, mouse

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PMID23426727
PMCPMC4743066
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