Metformin reverses early cortical network dysfunction and behavior changes in Huntington's disease

Isabelle Arnoux; Michael Willam; Nadine Griesche; Jennifer Krummeich; Hirofumi Watari; Nina Offermann; Stephanie Weber; Partha Narayan Dey; Changwei Chen; Olivia Monteiro; Sven Buettner; Katharina Meyer; Daniele Bano; Konstantin Radyushkin; Rosamund Langston; Jeremy J. Lambert; Erich Wanker; Axel Methner; Sybille Krauss; Susann Schweiger; Albrecht Stroh

doi:10.7554/eLife.38744

Metformin reverses early cortical network dysfunction and behavior changes in Huntington's disease

Isabelle Arnoux
, Michael Willam
, Nadine Griesche
, Jennifer Krummeich
, Hirofumi Watari
, Nina Offermann
, Stephanie Weber
, Partha Narayan Dey
, Changwei Chen
, Olivia Monteiro
, Sven Buettner
, Katharina Meyer
, Daniele Bano
, Konstantin Radyushkin
, Rosamund Langston
, Jeremy J. Lambert
, Erich Wanker
, Axel Methner
, Sybille Krauss
, Susann Schweiger (Lead / Corresponding author)

Albrecht Stroh (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Catching primal functional changes in early, 'very far from disease onset' (VFDO) stages of Huntington's disease is likely to be the key to a successful therapy. Focusing on VFDO stages, we assessed neuronal microcircuits in premanifest Hdh150 knock-in mice. Employing in vivo two-photon Ca2+ imaging, we revealed an early pattern of circuit dysregulation in the visual cortex- one of the first regions affected in premanifest Huntington's disease - characterized by an increase in activity, an enhanced synchronicity and hyperactive neurons. These findings are accompanied by aberrations in animal behavior. We furthermore show that the anti-diabetic drug metformin diminishes aberrant Huntingtin protein load and fully restores both, early network activity patterns and behavioral aberrations. This network-centered approach reveals a critical window of vulnerability far before clinical manifestation and establishes metformin as a promising candidate for a chronic therapy starting early in premanifest Huntington's disease pathogenesis long before the onset of clinical symptoms.

Original language	English
Article number	e38744
Pages (from-to)	1-32
Number of pages	32
Journal	eLife
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38744
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2018

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Arnoux, I., Willam, M., Griesche, N., Krummeich, J., Watari, H., Offermann, N., Weber, S., Narayan Dey, P., Chen, C., Monteiro, O., Buettner, S., Meyer, K., Bano, D., Radyushkin, K., Langston, R., Lambert, J. J., Wanker, E., Methner, A., Krauss, S., ... Stroh, A. (2018). Metformin reverses early cortical network dysfunction and behavior changes in Huntington's disease. eLife, 7, 1-32. Article e38744. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38744

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