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Telomerase gene therapy ameliorates the effects of neurodegeneration associated to short telomeres in mice

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#1 QuestforLife

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Posted 03 June 2019 - 12:01 PM


Latest from Blasco et al. on AAV-telomerase therapy for Neurodegeneration.

 

https://www.aging-us...cle/101982/text

 

 

 Neurodegenerative diseases associated with old age such as Alzheimer’s disease present major problems for society, and they currently have no cure. The telomere protective caps at the ends of chromosomes shorten with age, and when they become critically short, they can induce a persistent DNA damage response at chromosome ends, triggering secondary cellular responses such as cell death and cellular senescence. Mice and humans with very short telomeres owing to telomerase deficiencies have an earlier onset of pathologies associated with loss of the regenerative capacity of tissues. However, the effects of short telomeres in very low proliferative tissues such as the brain have not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we describe a mouse model of neurodegeneration owing to presence of short telomeres in the brain as the consequence of telomerase deficiency. Interestingly, we find similar signs of neurodegeneration in very old mice as the consequence of physiological mouse aging. Next, we demonstrate that delivery of telomerase gene therapy to the brain of these mice results in amelioration of some of these neurodegeneration phenotypes. These findings suggest that short telomeres contribute to neurodegeneration diseases with aging and that telomerase activation may have a therapeutic value in these diseases.

 

 

Of note is that this treatment was effective with only a low infection efficiency of cells in the brain.


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