Empty mesoporous silica particles significantly delay disease progression and extend survival in a mouse model of ALSShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 10, no 1, article id 20675
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Abstract [en]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating incurable neurological disorder characterized by motor neuron (MN) death and muscle dysfunction leading to mean survival time after diagnosis of only 2–5 years. A potential ALS treatment is to delay the loss of MNs and disease progression by the delivery of trophic factors. Previously, we demonstrated that implanted mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSPs) loaded with trophic factor peptide mimetics support survival and induce differentiation of co-implanted embryonic stem cell (ESC)-derived MNs. Here, we investigate whether MSP loaded with peptide mimetics of ciliary neurotrophic factor (Cintrofin), glial-derived neurotrophic factor (Gliafin), and vascular endothelial growth factor (Vefin1) injected into the cervical spinal cord of mutant SOD1 mice affect disease progression and extend survival. We also transplanted boundary cap neural crest stem cells (bNCSCs) which have been shown previously to have a positive effect on MN survival in vitro and in vivo. We show that mimetic-loaded MSPs and bNCSCs significantly delay disease progression and increase survival of mutant SOD1 mice, and also that empty particles significantly improve the condition of ALS mice. Our results suggest that intraspinal delivery of MSPs is a potential therapeutic approach for the treatment of ALS.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nature Research , 2020. Vol. 10, no 1, article id 20675
Keywords [en]
copper zinc superoxide dismutase, glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor, silicon dioxide, superoxide dismutase, vasculotropin A, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, animal, cell culture, cell survival, cervical spinal cord, disease exacerbation, disease model, drug effect, embryonic stem cell, female, metabolism, motoneuron, mouse, neural crest, neural stem cell, pathology, Animals, Cells, Cultured, Cervical Cord, Disease Models, Animal, Disease Progression, Embryonic Stem Cells, Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Mice, Motor Neurons, Neural Stem Cells, Superoxide Dismutase-1, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
National Category
Neurosciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302813DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77578-xISI: 000596329600031PubMedID: 33244084Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85096676629OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-302813DiVA, id: diva2:1599860
Note
QC 20211002
2021-10-022021-10-022022-12-12Bibliographically approved