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Immunohistochemical Study on the Distribution of Glycogen Synthase Kinase (GSK) 3β in theCentral Nervous System of SOD1G93A Transgenic Mice

주경민 1 정윤희 2 김성수 2 김경용 2 이원복 2 차중익 1

1서울대학교
2중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the present study, we investigated influences of glycogen synthase kinase (GSK) 3β on the development and/or progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We used transgenic mice expressing a human Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase mutant (SOD1G93A) as an in vivo model of ALS and examined expressional changes of GSK3β immunohistochemically in the spinal cord, brain stem and cerebellum. With these experiments we demonstrate that the neurons in these regions of symptomatic SOD1G93A transgenic mice showed increased GSK3β immunoreactivities compared with wild-type SOD1 transgenic mice. In contrast to symptomatic SOD1G93A transgenic mice, few GSK3β immunoreactivity changes were detected in 8w- and 13w-old presymptomatic SOD1G93A transgenic mice. These data suggest the possibility that GSK3 functions as a modulating factor of apoptosis-related alterations in ALS and that GSK3β exert differential functions in the development and/or progression of ALS. But the exact functional significances of these changes require further elucidation.

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