Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Autonomic ganglionic injection of α-synuclein fibrils as a model of pure autonomic failure α-synucleinopathy

  • Xue-Jing Wang,
  • Ming-Ming Ma,
  • Le-Bo Zhou,
  • Xiao-Yi Jiang,
  • Miao-Miao Hao,
  • Robert K. F. Teng,
  • Erxi Wu,
  • Bei-Sha Tang,
  • Jia-Yi Li,
  • Jun-Fang Teng,
  • Xue-Bing Ding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14189-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Autonomic dysfunction is a feature of some α-synucleinopathies, but there are no models of pure autonomic dysfunction associated with α-synuclein. Here the authors describe a mouse model of pure autonomic dysfunction without motor dysfunciton by injection of pre-formed fibrils of α-synuclein to the stellate and celiac ganglia.