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How mitochondria become compromised in HD is poorly understood but instrumental for the development of treatments to prevent or reverse resulting deficits. In this paper, we investigate whether oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) differs across brain regions in juvenile as compared to adult mice and whether such developmental changes might be compromised in the R6\/2 mouse model of HD. We study OXPHOS in the striatum, hippocampus, and motor cortex by high resolution respirometry in female wild-type and R6\/2 mice of ages corresponding to pre-symptomatic and symptomatic R6\/2 mice. We observe a developmental shift in OXPHOS-control parameters that was similar in R6\/2 mice, except for cortical succinate-driven respiration. While the LEAK state relative to maximal respiratory capacity was reduced in adult mice in all analyzed brain regions, succinate-driven respiration was reduced only in the striatum and cortex, and NADH-driven respiration was higher as compared to juvenile mice only in the striatum. We demonstrate age-related changes in respirational capacities of different brain regions with subtle deviations in R6\/2 mice. Uncovering in situ oxygen conditions and potential substrate limitations during aging and HD disease progression are interesting avenues for future research to understand brain-regional vulnerability in HD.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms21155412","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,30]],"date-time":"2020-07-30T03:36:38Z","timestamp":1596080198000},"page":"5412","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Mitochondrial Respiration Changes in R6\/2 Huntington\u2019s Disease Model Mice during Aging in a Brain Region Specific Manner"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2889-0151","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Johannes","family":"Burtscher","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alba","family":"Di Pardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IRCCS, Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vittorio","family":"Maglione","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IRCCS, Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christoph","family":"Schwarzer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ferdinando","family":"Squitieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Huntington and Rare Diseases Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Research Hospital, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"14","article-title":"Aging: A theory based on free radical and radiation chemistry","volume":"2002","author":"Harman","year":"2002","journal-title":"Sci. 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