[en] Decreased blood and cerebrospinal fluid levels of thiamine have been reported in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia disorders. To determine whether a thiamine deficiency is present in the brain, we measured levels of thiamine and its phosphate esters thiamine monophosphate (TMP) and thiamine diphosphate (TDP), in postmortem cerebellar and cerebral cortices of patients with Friedreich's ataxia (FA) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1). Brain levels of free (nonphosphorylated) thiamine, TMP, TDP, and total thiamine in FA and SCA1 were, on average, not significantly different from control values. However, a nonsignificant trend was observed for slightly reduced levels of TDP and total thiamine in cerebellar cortex of the SCA1 patients, a finding that might be related to the severe neuronal damage in this brain area. We conclude that in FA, brain thiamine concentrations are normal, whereas in SCA1 the levels are, at most, only slightly reduced.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Bettendorff, Lucien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie et physiologie humaine et pathologique
Mastrogiacomo, Frank
LaMarche, J.
Dozic, Slobodan
Kish, Stephen J.
Language :
English
Title :
Brain Levels of Thiamine and Its Phosphate Esters in Friedreich's Ataxia and Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1
Publication date :
1996
Journal title :
Movement Disorders
ISSN :
0885-3185
eISSN :
1531-8257
Publisher :
John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, United States - New York
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