Parkinson's Disease: Cells Succumbing to Lifelong Dopamine-Related Oxidative Stress and Other Bioenergetic Challenges

H Watanabe, JM Dijkstra, T Nagatsu - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The core pathological event in Parkinson's disease (PD) is the specific dying of dopamine
(DA) neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). The reasons why SNc DA …

Unraveling the Interplay of Dopamine, Carbon Monoxide, and Heme Oxygenase in Neuromodulation and Cognition

N Bauer, D Liu, TP Nguyen, B Wang - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The dopaminergic system plays important roles in neuromodulation, including prominent
roles in complex neurological functions such as cognition, reward, motivation, and memory …

Early synaptic dysfunction of striatal parvalbumin interneurons in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

Q He, X Zhang, H Yang, D Wang, Y Shu, X Wang - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
In Parkinson's disease (PD), the loss of dopaminergic signaling remodels striatal circuits,
causing abnormal network activity. The timing and impact on various striatal cell types …

Dopaminergic Dependency of Cholinergic Pallidal Neurons

J López-Niño, M Padilla-Orozco, A Ortega… - Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
We employed the whole-cell patch-clamp method and ChAT-Cre mice to study the
electrophysiological attributes of cholinergic neurons in the external globus pallidus. Most …

[HTML][HTML] Moving to a non-dopaminergic approach for the treatment of OFF fluctuations in Parkinson's disease

SH Isaacson, P Jenner - Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2025 - Elsevier
In levodopa treated patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), the standard approach to
managing motor fluctuations is to adjust dopaminergic therapy. However, despite the …

Amelioration of Motor Performance and Nigrostriatal Dopamine Cell Volume Using a Novel Far-Infrared Ceramic Blanket in an A53T Alpha-Synuclein Transgenic …

FR Carrick, LSAV Hernandez, K Sugaya - Current Issues in Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
We had attended a Parkinson's Disease (PD) patient for a non-healing wound who reported
a marked decrease in his hand tremor and freezing of gait when his wound was exposed to …

A journey through cannabidiol in Parkinson's disease

E Del-Bel, N Barros-Pereira, RP de Moraes… - International Review of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with no known cure
characterized by motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia (slowness of …

[HTML][HTML] Functional activation of dorsal striatum astrocytes improves movement deficits in hemi-parkinsonian mice

WR Evans, SS Baskar, ARCE Costa, S Ravoori… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal
inputs, which causes striatal network dysfunction and leads to pronounced motor deficits …

Deep brain stimulation for potentiation of underactive basal ganglia pathways in Parkinson's disease

KA Spencer - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Bradykinesia is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). In PD, inhibitory inputs to the globus
pallidus internus (GPi; via striatum) and subthalamic nucleus (STN; via globus pallidus …