Depression in neurodegenerative diseases: Common mechanisms and current treatment options

CPC Galts, LEB Bettio, DC Jewett, CC Yang… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder and a major
cause of disability worldwide. This neurological condition is commonly associated with …

Advancement in the modelling and therapeutics of Parkinson's disease

SN Rai, P Singh - Journal of chemical neuroanatomy, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of L-dopa in the middle of the 20th century (1960s), there is not any
neuroprotective therapy available although significant development has been made in the …

Targeting thalamic circuits rescues motor and mood deficits in PD mice

Y Zhang, DS Roy, Y Zhu, Y Chen, T Aida, Y Hou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Although bradykinesia, tremor and rigidity are the hallmark motor defects in patients with
Parkinson's disease (PD), patients also experience motor learning impairments and non …

Impact of the secretome of human mesenchymal stem cells on brain structure and animal behavior in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

FG Teixeira, MM Carvalho… - Stem cells …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Research in the last decade strongly suggests that mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-mediated
therapeutic benefits are mainly due to their secretome, which has been proposed as a …

Therapeutic deep brain stimulation disrupts movement-related subthalamic nucleus activity in parkinsonian mice

JS Schor, IG Montalvo, PWE Spratt, RJ Brakaj… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) relieves many motor symptoms of
Parkinson's disease (PD), but its underlying therapeutic mechanisms remain unclear. Since …

[HTML][HTML] Reproducible generation of human midbrain organoids for in vitro modeling of Parkinson's disease

SL Nickels, J Modamio, B Mendes-Pinheiro… - Stem Cell Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of human midbrain development and midbrain related diseases, like Parkinson's
disease (PD), is limited by deficiencies in the currently available and validated laboratory …

Cholinergic interneurons amplify thalamostriatal excitation of striatal indirect pathway neurons in Parkinson's disease models

A Tanimura, Y Du, J Kondapalli, DL Wokosin… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) are thought to stem from an imbalance in
the activity of striatal direct-and indirect-pathway spiny projection neurons (SPNs). Disease …

Rodent models of Parkinson's disease: beyond the motor symptomatology

FL Campos, MM Carvalho, AC Cristovão… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is classically characterized by motor symptoms; however, non-
motor symptoms (NMS) are increasingly recognized as relevant in disease-state, given the …

Anxiety in synucleinopathies: neuronal circuitry, underlying pathomechanisms and current therapeutic strategies

TT Lai, B Gericke, M Feja, M Conoscenti… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
Synucleinopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by alpha-synuclein
(αSyn) accumulation in neurons or glial cells, including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia …

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells' secretome exerts neuroprotective effects in a Parkinson's disease rat model

B Mendes-Pinheiro, SI Anjo, B Manadas… - … in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a selective loss of dopamine (DA) neurons in
the human midbrain causing motor dysfunctions. The exact mechanism behind …