Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Linoleic acid improves PIEZO2 dysfunction in a mouse model of Angelman Syndrome

  • Luis O. Romero,
  • Rebeca Caires,
  • A. Kaitlyn Victor,
  • Juanma Ramirez,
  • Francisco J. Sierra-Valdez,
  • Patrick Walsh,
  • Vincent Truong,
  • Jungsoo Lee,
  • Ugo Mayor,
  • Lawrence T. Reiter,
  • Valeria Vásquez,
  • Julio F. Cordero-Morales

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36818-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurogenetic disorder. Here, the authors found that PIEZO2 activity is reduced in sensory neurons from a mouse model of AS and used a linoleic acid-enriched diet to enhance PIEZO2 function and ameliorate AS-associated gait deficits.