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Altered diffusion tensor imaging measurements in aged transgenic Huntington disease rats.

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2013-05
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Antonsen, Bjørnar T
Jiang, Yi
Veraart, Jelle
Qu, Hong
Nguyen, Huu Phuc
Sijbers, Jan
von Hörsten, Stephan
Johnson, G Allan
Leergaard, Trygve B
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Abstract
Rodent models of Huntington disease (HD) are valuable tools for investigating HD pathophysiology and evaluating new therapeutic approaches. Non-invasive characterization of HD-related phenotype changes is important for monitoring progression of pathological processes and possible effects of interventions. The first transgenic rat model for HD exhibits progressive late-onset affective, cognitive, and motor impairments, as well as neuropathological features reflecting observations from HD patients. In this report, we contribute to the anatomical phenotyping of this model by comparing high-resolution ex vivo DTI measurements obtained in aged transgenic HD rats and wild-type controls. By region of interest analysis supplemented by voxel-based statistics, we find little evidence of atrophy in basal ganglia regions, but demonstrate altered DTI measurements in the dorsal and ventral striatum, globus pallidus, entopeduncular nucleus, substantia nigra, and hippocampus. These changes are largely compatible with DTI findings in preclinical and clinical HD patients. We confirm earlier reports that HD rats express a moderate neuropathological phenotype, and provide evidence of altered DTI measures in specific HD-related brain regions, in the absence of pronounced morphometric changes.
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Journal article
Subject
Aging
Animals
Atrophy
Brain
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Disease Models, Animal
Humans
Huntingtin Protein
Huntington Disease
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Rats
Rats, Transgenic
Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13090
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10.1007/s00429-012-0427-0
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Antonsen, Bjørnar T; Jiang, Yi; Veraart, Jelle; Qu, Hong; Nguyen, Huu Phuc; Sijbers, Jan; ... Leergaard, Trygve B (2013). Altered diffusion tensor imaging measurements in aged transgenic Huntington disease rats. Brain Struct Funct, 218(3). pp. 767-778. 10.1007/s00429-012-0427-0. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13090.
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G. Allan Johnson

Charles E. Putman University Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Dr. Johnson is the Charles E. Putman University Professor of Radiology, Professor of Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy (CIVM). The CIVM is an NIH/NIBIB national Biomedical Technology Resource Center with a mission to develop novel technologies for preclinical imaging (basic sciences) and apply the technologies to critical biomedical questions. Dr. Johnson was one of the first researchers to bring Paul Lauterbur's vision of magnetic resona
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