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EMBO Mol Med ; 13(10): e13742, 2021 10 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34411438

RESUMO

Batten diseases (BDs) are a group of lysosomal storage disorders characterized by seizure, visual loss, and cognitive and motor deterioration. We discovered increased levels of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) in cellular and murine models of CLN3 and CLN7 diseases and used fluorescent-conjugated bacterial toxins to label Gb3 to develop a cell-based high content imaging (HCI) screening assay for the repurposing of FDA-approved compounds able to reduce this accumulation within BD cells. We found that tamoxifen reduced the lysosomal accumulation of Gb3 in CLN3 and CLN7 cell models, including neuronal progenitor cells (NPCs) from CLN7 patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). Here, tamoxifen exerts its action through a mechanism that involves activation of the transcription factor EB (TFEB), a master gene of lysosomal function and autophagy. In vivo administration of tamoxifen to the CLN7Δex2 mouse model reduced the accumulation of Gb3 and SCMAS, decreased neuroinflammation, and improved motor coordination. These data strongly suggest that tamoxifen may be a suitable drug to treat some types of Batten disease.


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Lipofuscinoses Ceroides Neuronais , Animais , Reposicionamento de Medicamentos , Humanos , Lisossomos , Glicoproteínas de Membrana/genética , Camundongos , Chaperonas Moleculares/genética , Lipofuscinoses Ceroides Neuronais/tratamento farmacológico , Fenótipo , Tamoxifeno/farmacologia
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J Assoc Res Otolaryngol ; 8(1): 18-31, 2007 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17171473

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The adult mammalian cochlea lacks regenerative capacity, which is the main reason for the permanence of hearing loss. Vestibular organs, in contrast, replace a small number of lost hair cells. The reason for this difference is unknown. In this work we show isolation of sphere-forming stem cells from the early postnatal organ of Corti, vestibular sensory epithelia, the spiral ganglion, and the stria vascularis. Organ of Corti and vestibular sensory epithelial stem cells give rise to cells that express multiple hair cell markers and express functional ion channels reminiscent of nascent hair cells. Spiral ganglion stem cells display features of neural stem cells and can give rise to neurons and glial cell types. We found that the ability for sphere formation in the mouse cochlea decreases about 100-fold during the second and third postnatal weeks; this decrease is substantially faster than the reduction of stem cells in vestibular organs, which maintain their stem cell population also at older ages. Coincidentally, the relative expression of developmental and progenitor cell markers in the cochlea decreases during the first 3 postnatal weeks, which is in sharp contrast to the vestibular system, where expression of progenitor cell markers remains constant or even increases during this period. Our findings indicate that the lack of regenerative capacity in the adult mammalian cochlea is either a result of an early postnatal loss of stem cells or diminishment of stem cell features of maturing cochlear cells.


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Células Ciliadas Auditivas/citologia , Sáculo e Utrículo/citologia , Gânglio Espiral da Cóclea/citologia , Células-Tronco/citologia , Animais , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Biomarcadores , Diferenciação Celular , Eletrofisiologia , Feminino , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Células Ciliadas Auditivas/embriologia , Células Ciliadas Auditivas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Células Ciliadas Auditivas/fisiologia , Canais Iônicos/fisiologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Gravidez , Regeneração , Sáculo e Utrículo/embriologia , Sáculo e Utrículo/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Sáculo e Utrículo/fisiologia , Esferoides Celulares , Gânglio Espiral da Cóclea/embriologia , Gânglio Espiral da Cóclea/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Gânglio Espiral da Cóclea/fisiologia , Células-Tronco/fisiologia , Estria Vascular/citologia , Estria Vascular/fisiologia
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