Huntingtin immunoreactivity in the rat neostriatum: differential accumulation in projection and interneurons

Experimental Neurology
C M KosinskiD G Standaert

Abstract

Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation of the gene encoding the protein huntingtin. Features of the human disease, characterized by selective loss of neurons from the neostriatum, can be replicated in rodents by administration of excitotoxins. In both affected individuals and the rodent model, there is massive loss of striatal projection neurons with selective sparing of interneurons. Furthermore, in the human disease the earliest evidence of striatal injury is found in striosomal regions of the striatum. The mRNA encoding huntingtin is known to be expressed by neurons throughout the brain, a distribution which does not account for the selective patterns of neuronal death which are observed. Using fluorescence immunocytochemistry and confocal microscopy with an antibody to huntingtin, we have observed that in rats a subset of striatal projection neurons contains dense accumulations of huntingtin immunoreactivity (HT-ir), while most neurons in the striatum contain much smaller amounts. The intensely stained neurons are concentrated within the striatal striosomes, as defined by calbindin-D28K staining. In the matrix regions, relatively few neurons contain dense accumulations of HT-ir, and these cells always lack perikaryal ...Continue Reading

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