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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2011 Jan 7;116(5):779–788. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07034.x

Table 2. Aberrant phenotypes in ASMko brain cells.

The table summarizes the aberrant phenotypes found until now in neurons, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes of ASMko mice brains. Corresponding references are also indicated.

Brain cell type Aberrant phenotype References
NEURONS
Deficient Ca2+ homeostasis Ginzburg and Futerman, 2005
Altered molecular polarization Galvan et al., 2008
Impaired endocytosis Galvan et al., 2008
Smaller synapses Camoletto et al., 2009
Altered presynaptic plasticity Camoletto et al., 2009
Complete loss of Purkinje neurons Horinouchi et al., 2005; Otterbach and Stoffel.,
2005;Sarna et al., 2001; Macauley et al., 2008
Altered lipid composition Scandroglio et al., 2008; Galvan et al., 2008
OLIGODENDROCYTES
Decreased expression of myelin
proteins
Buccinna et al., 2009
Altered lipid composition Buccinna et al., 2009
ASTROCYTES
Complete blockade of microparticle
shedding and IL-1brelease
Bianco et al., 2009