Vocalisation as a Viable Assessment for Phenotyping Minipigs Transgenic for the Huntington Gene?

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JHD-170284" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JHD-170284</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JHD-170284" target="_blank" >10.3233/JHD-170284</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vocalisation as a Viable Assessment for Phenotyping Minipigs Transgenic for the Huntington Gene?

Original language description

Background: Large animal models, such as the transgenic (tg) Huntington disease (HD) minipig, have been proposed to improve translational reliability and assessment of safety, efficacy and tolerability in preclinical studies. Minipigs are characterised by high genetic homology and comparable brain structures to humans. In addition, behavioural assessments successfully applied in humans could be explored in minipigs to establish similar endpoints in preclinical and clinical studies. Recently, analysis of voice and speech production was established to characterise HD patients. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether vocalisation could also serve as a viable marker for phenotyping minipigs transgenic for Huntington's disease (tgHD) and whether tgHD minipigs reveal changes in this domain compared to wildtype (wt) minipigs. Methods: While conducting behavioural testing, incidence of vocalisation was assessed for a cohort of 14 tgHD and 18 wt minipigs. Statistical analyses were performed using Fisher's Exact Test for group comparisons and McNemar's Test for intra-visit differences between tgHD and wt minipigs. Results:Vocalisation can easily be documented during phenotyping assessments of minipigs. Differences in vocalisation incidences across behavioural conditions were detected between tgHD and wt minipigs. Influence of the genotype on vocalisation was detectable during a period of 1.5 years. Conclusion: Vocalisation may be a viable marker for phenotyping minipigs transgenic for the Huntington gene. Documentation of vocalisation provides a non-invasive opportunity to capture potential disease signs and explore phenotypic development including the age of disease manifestation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Huntington´s Disease

ISSN

1879-6397

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

269-278

UT code for WoS article

000440327700008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85051379878