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Abstract #0575

Diffusion MRI reveals rescue of structural changes in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease by mutant Huntingtin lowering

Joëlle van Rijswijk1,2, Nicholas Vidas-Guscic1,2, Johan Van Audekerke1,2, Tamara Vasilkovska1,2, Dorian Pustina3, Haiying Tang3, Roger Cachope3, Deanna M. Marchionini3, Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan3, Annemie Van der Linden1,2, Mohit H Adhikari1,2, and Marleen Verhoye1,2
1Bio-Imaging Lab, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2µNEURO Research Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 3CHDI Management/CHDI Foundation, Princeton, NJ, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Neurodegeneration, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, Huntington's Disease

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder for which no cure is available. There is an urgent need to find early biomarkers which are sensitive enough to determine and follow up the efficacy of novel therapies. In this study, we present the outcome of a treatment study in the LacQ140 HD mouse model using diffusion tensor/kurtosis imaging (DTI/DKI) and fixel-based analysis (FBA). We observed that early, moderate lowering of mutant Huntingtin (mHtt) rescues structural alterations measured in this mouse model with diffusion MRI in the olfactory bulb and striatum, which are prominent regions affected in HD.

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