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Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 18, No. 3, 185-190 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/08830738030180030401

Unfolding Story of Inclusion-Body Myositis and Myopathies: Role of Misfolded Proteins, Amyloid-ß, Cholesterol, and Aging

Valerie Askanas, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, askanas{at}hsc.usc.edu

W. King Engel, MD

USC Neuromuscular Center Department of Neurology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

Sporadic inclusion-body myositis and hereditary inclusion-body myopathies are progressive muscle diseases leading to severe disability. We briefly summarize their clinical pictures and pathologic diagnostic criteria and discuss the latest advances in illuminating their pathogenic mechanism(s). We emphasize how different etiologies might lead to the strikingly similar pathology and possibly similar pathogenic cascade. On the basis of our research, several processes seem to be important in relation to the still speculative pathogenesis, including (a) increased transcription and accumulation of amyloid-ß precursor protein and accumulation of its proteolytic fragment amyloid-ß; (b) abnormal accumulation of components related to lipid metabolism, for example, cholesterol, accumulation of which is possibly owing to its abnormal trafficking; (c) oxidative stress; (d) accumulations of other Alzheimer's disease—related proteins; and (e) a milieu of muscle cellular aging in which these changes occur. We discuss a potentially very important role of unfolded and/or misfolded proteins as a possible mechanism in the formations of the inclusion bodies and other abnormalities. (J Child Neurol 2003;18:185-190) .


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