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- Title
AAV-microdystrophin therapy improves cardiac performance in aged female mdx mice.
- Authors
Bostick, Brian; Shin, Jin-Hong; Yue, Yongping; Duan, Dongsheng
- Abstract
Dystrophin deficiency leads to lethal dilated Duchenne cardiomyopathy. A promising therapy is to deliver a highly abbreviated microdystrophin gene to the heart using adeno-associated virus (AAV). Microdystrophin has been shown to mitigate dystrophin-deficient skeletal muscle disease. However, it is not clear whether microdystrophin is equally effective in treating Duchenne cardiomyopathy. To evaluate microdystrophin therapy in the heart, we injected 5 × 10(12) viral genome particles/mouse of AAV-9 ΔR4-23/ΔC microdystrophin vector via tail vein to ~16-20-month-old (average 18.7-month-old) female mdx mice, a manifesting model of Duchenne cardiomyopathy. Cardiac transduction and heart function were examined at 2-8 months after gene transfer. We observed robust myocardial microdystrophin expression. Electrocardiography (ECG) and left ventricular catheter hemodynamic assays also revealed significant improvement. Furthermore, AAV-microdystrophin therapy prevented dobutamine-stress induced acute cardiac death. We demonstrate for the first time that AAV microdystrophin therapy significantly ameliorates functional deficiency in a phenotypic model of Duchenne cardiomyopathy. Our results support further exploration of microdystrophin therapy to treat Duchenne cardiomyopathy.
- Publication
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 10, p1826
- ISSN
1525-0024
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/mt.2011.154