Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T1 |
0-147 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
Neocortical neurons cultured from mice with expanded CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene: unaltered vulnerability to excitotoxins and other insults. |
T2 |
148-284 |
DRI_Challenge |
denotes |
Glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity might contribute to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease and other polyglutamine repeat disorders. |
T3 |
285-503 |
DRI_Approach |
denotes |
We used murine neocortical cultures derived from transgenic and knock-in mice to test the effect of expression of expanded polyglutamine-containing huntingtin on neuronal vulnerability to excitotoxins or other insults. |
T4 |
504-800 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
Neurons cultured from mice expressing either a normal length (Hdh(Q20)) or expanded (Hdh(Q111)) CAG repeat as a knock-in genetic alteration in exon one of the mouse Hdh gene [Hum Mol Genet 8 (1999) 115] had similar vulnerability to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and kainate-mediated excitotoxicity. |
T5 |
801-920 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
These neurons also exhibited similar vulnerability to oxidative stress (24 h exposure to 10-100 microM paraquat or 1-10 |
T6 |
921-937 |
Token_Label.OUTSIDE |
denotes |
microM menadione |
T7 |
937-996 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
), apoptosis (48 h exposure to 30-100 nM staurosporine or 1 |
T8 |
997-1015 |
Token_Label.OUTSIDE |
denotes |
microM dizocilpine |
T9 |
1016-1076 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
maleate (MK-801) and proteasome inhibition (48 h exposure to |
T10 |
1077-1096 |
Token_Label.OUTSIDE |
denotes |
0.3-3 microM MG-132 |
T11 |
1096-1098 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
). |
T12 |
1099-1255 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
Neocortical neurons cultured from mice transgenic for an expanded CAG repeat-containing exon 1 of the human HD gene (Mangiarini et al., 1996, R6/2 line) and |
T13 |
1256-1281 |
Token_Label.OUTSIDE |
denotes |
non-transgenic littermate |
T14 |
1282-1366 |
DRI_Background |
denotes |
controls also had similar vulnerability to NMDA and kainate-mediated excitotoxicity. |
T15 |
1367-1566 |
DRI_Outcome |
denotes |
These observations suggest that expression of expanded polyglutamine-containing huntingtin does not acutely alter the vulnerability of cortical neurons to excitotoxic, oxidative or apoptotic insults. |