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Malonate and 3-nitropropionic acid neurotoxicity are reduced in transgenic mice expressing a caspase-1 dominant-negative mutant.

Increasing evidence implicates caspase-1-mediated cell death as a major mechanism of neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study we investigated the role of caspase-1 in neurotoxic experimental animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) by examining whether transgenic mice expressing a caspase-1 dominant-negative mutant are resistant to malonate and 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) neurotoxicity. Intrastriatal injection of malonate resulted in significantly smaller striatal lesions in mutant caspase-1 mice than those observed in littermate control mice. Caspase-1 was significantly activated following malonate intrastriatal administration in control mice but significantly attenuated in mutant caspase-1 mice. Systemic 3-NP treatment induced selective striatal lesions that were significantly smaller within mutant caspase-1 mice than in littermate control mice. These results provide further evidence of a functional role for caspase-1 in both malonate- and 3-NP- mediated neurotoxin models of HD.[1]

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  1. Malonate and 3-nitropropionic acid neurotoxicity are reduced in transgenic mice expressing a caspase-1 dominant-negative mutant. Andreassen, O.A., Ferrante, R.J., Hughes, D.B., Klivenyi, P., Dedeoglu, A., Ona, V.O., Friedlander, R.M., Beal, M.F. J. Neurochem. (2000) [Pubmed]
 
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