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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Année : 2019

Urinary ketone body loss leads to degeneration of brain white matter in elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice

Damien Ambrosetti

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SLC5A8 is a sodium-coupled monocarboxylate and ketone transporter expressed in various epithelial cells. A putative role of SLC5A8 in neuroenergetics has been also hypothesized. To clarify this issue, we studied the cerebral phenotype of SLC5A8-deficient mice during aging. Elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice presented diffuse leukoencephalopathy characterized by intramyelinic oedema without demyelination suggesting chronic energetic crisis. Hypo-metabolism in the white matter of elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice was found using 99mTc-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime (HMPAO) single-photon emission CT (SPECT). Since the SLC5A8 protein could not be detected in the mouse brain, it was hypothesized that the leukoencephalopathy of aging SLC5A8-deficient mice was caused by the absence of slc5a8 expression in a peripheral organ, i.e. the kidney, where SLC5A8 is strongly expressed. A hyper-excretion of the ketone β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) in the urine of SLC5A8-deficient mice was observed and showed that SLC5A8-deficient mice suffered a cerebral BHB insufficiency. Elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice also presented altered glucose metabolism. We propose that the continuous renal loss of BHB leads to a chronic energetic deficiency in the brain of elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice who are unable to counterbalance their glucose deficit. This study highlights the importance of alternative energetic substrates in neuroenergetics especially under conditions of restricted glucose availability.

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hal-02294233 , version 1 (23-09-2019)

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Laurent Suissa, Virginie Flachon, Jean-Marie Guigonis, Charles-Vivien Olivieri, Fanny Burel-Vandenbos, et al.. Urinary ketone body loss leads to degeneration of brain white matter in elderly SLC5A8-deficient mice. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2019, pp.271678X19873662. ⟨10.1177/0271678X19873662⟩. ⟨hal-02294233⟩
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