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Noninvasive detection of brainstem and spinal cord axonal degeneration in an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mouse model
- Source :
- NMR in Biomedicine. 24:163-169
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2010.
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Abstract
- Degeneration of motor neurons and their associated axons is a hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but reliable noninvasive lesion detection is lacking. In vivo diffusion tensor imaging was performed to evaluate neurodegeneration in the brainstem and cervical spinal cord of wild-type and G93A-SOD1 transgenic mice, an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A statistically significant reduction in the apparent diffusion coefficient was observed in the motor nuclei VII and XII of G93A-SOD1 transgenic mice relative to wild-type mice. No significant difference in diffusion anisotropy was observed in dorsal white or gray matter in cervical and lumbar segments of the spinal cord. In contrast, statistically significant decreases in axial diffusivity (diffusivity parallel to the axis of the spinal cord) and apparent diffusion coefficient were found in the ventrolateral white matter of G93A-SOD1 mice in both the cervical and lumbar spinal cord. The reduction in axial diffusivity, suggestive of axonal injury, in the white matter of the spinal cord of G93A-SOD1 mice was verified by immunostaining with nonphosphorylated neurofilament. The present study demonstrates that in vivo diffusion tensor imaging-derived axial diffusivity may be used to accurately evaluate axonal degeneration in an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Chemistry
animal diseases
Neurodegeneration
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Anatomy
medicine.disease
Spinal cord
nervous system diseases
White matter
Lumbar Spinal Cord
medicine.anatomical_structure
nervous system
medicine
Molecular Medicine
Effective diffusion coefficient
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Brainstem
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Spectroscopy
Diffusion MRI
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09523480
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NMR in Biomedicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bde43fcbea01bd9e9e55f6bbbeb7987c