Distributed dopaminergic signaling in the basal ganglia and its relationship to motor disability in Parkinson's disease

S Zhai, Q Cui, DNV Simmons, DJ Surmeier - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The degeneration of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons that innervate the basal ganglia
is responsible for the cardinal motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). It has been …

Disruption of mitochondrial complex I induces progressive parkinsonism

P González-Rodríguez, E Zampese, KA Stout… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of functional mitochondrial complex I (MCI) in the dopaminergic neurons of the
substantia nigra is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Yet, whether this change contributes to …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular and synaptic dysfunctions in Parkinson's disease: step** out of the striatum

N Mallet, L Delgado, M Chazalon, C Miguelez… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The basal ganglia (BG) are a collection of interconnected subcortical nuclei that participate
in a great variety of functions, ranging from motor programming and execution to procedural …

Targeting parvalbumin-expressing neurons in the substantia nigra pars reticulata restores motor function in parkinsonian mice

L Delgado-Zabalza, NP Mallet, C Glangetas, G Dabee… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The activity of substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) neurons, the main output structure of
basal ganglia, is altered in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, neither the underlying …

Rethinking the network determinants of motor disability in Parkinson's disease

DJ Surmeier, S Zhai, Q Cui… - Frontiers in Synaptic …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
For roughly the last 30 years, the notion that striatal dopamine (DA) depletion was the critical
determinant of network pathophysiology underlying the motor symptoms of Parkinson's …

Restoring lost nigrostriatal fibers in Parkinson's disease based on clinically-inspired design criteria

WJ Gordián-Vélez, D Chouhan, RA España… - Brain research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease affecting around 10 million people
worldwide. The death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and the axonal fibers …

Implications of COVID-19 in Parkinson's disease: the purinergic system in a therapeutic-target perspective to diminish neurodegeneration

JLB Simões, G de Carvalho Braga, SW Eichler… - Purinergic …, 2024 - Springer
The pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is marked by degeneration of
dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. With advent of COVID-19, which is closely …

Propagation of oscillations in the indirect pathway of the basal ganglia

CJ Wilson, JA Jones - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - jneurosci.org
Oscillatory signals propagate in the basal ganglia from prototypic neurons in the external
globus pallidus (GPe) to their target neurons in the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) …

Proliferation of inhibitory input to the substantia nigra in experimental parkinsonism

A Faynveitz, H Lavian, A Jacob… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) is one of the output nuclei of the basal ganglia
(BG) and plays a vital role in movement execution. Death of dopaminergic neurons in the …

Symmetric and Asymmetric Synapses Driving Neurodegenerative Disorders

D Romaus-Sanjurjo, A Custodia, M Aramburu-Núñez… - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
In 1959, EG Gray described two different types of synapses in the brain for the first time:
symmetric and asymmetric. Later on, symmetric synapses were associated with inhibitory …