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Depression in Parkinson's Disease: The Contribution from Animal Studies. PARKINSONS DISEASE 2017; 2017:9124160. [PMID: 29158943 PMCID: PMC5660814 DOI: 10.1155/2017/9124160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Besides being better known for causing motor impairments, Parkinson's disease (PD) can also cause many nonmotor symptoms, like depression and anxiety, which can cause significant loss of life quality and may not respond to regular drugs treatment. In this review, we discuss the depression in PD, based on data from studies in humans and rodents. Depression frequency seems higher in PD patients than in general population, despite high variation in data due to diagnosis disparities. Development of depression in PD seems more likely to be caused by the nigrostriatal pathway degeneration than as a consequence of the awareness of disease prognostic, and it seems to be related to dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and serotoninergic synapses deficits. The dopaminergic role could be more significant, since it can modulate the release of the others, and its depletion is progressive, due to the degenerative feature of PD. Highly regarded in major depression, serotonin can be depleted in rats after nigrostriatal damage, but data from human patients are more conflicting. Animal studies can help in understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of depression in PD and the pursuit for more effective drugs for its treatment, but they lack the complexity of the disease progression, especially the nondopaminergic degeneration.
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Zhao TT, Kim KS, Shin KS, Park HJ, Kim HJ, Lee KE, Lee MK. Gypenosides ameliorate memory deficits in MPTP-lesioned mouse model of Parkinson's disease treated with L-DOPA. Altern Ther Health Med 2017; 17:449. [PMID: 28877690 PMCID: PMC5585899 DOI: 10.1186/s12906-017-1959-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Background Previous studies have revealed that gypenosides (GPS) improve the symptoms of anxiety disorders in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-lesioned rat model of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The present study aimed to investigate the effects of GPS on memory deficits in an MPTP-lesioned mouse model of PD treated with L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA). Methods MPTP (30 mg/kg/day, 5 days)-lesioned mice were treated with GPS (50 mg/kg) and/or L-DOPA (10 and 25 mg/kg) for 21 days. After the final treatments, behavioral changes were assessed in all mice using passive avoidance and elevated plus-maze tests. We then evaluated the biochemical influences of GPS treatment on levels of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2), and cyclic AMP-response element binding protein (CREB) phosphorylation. Results MPTP-lesioned mice exhibited deficits associated with habit learning and spatial memory, which were further aggravated by treatment with L-DOPA (25 mg/kg). However, treatment with GPS (50 mg/kg) ameliorated memory deficits. Treatment with GPS (50 mg/kg) also improved L-DOPA (25 mg/kg)-treated MPTP lesion-induced decreases in retention latency on the passive avoidance test, as well as levels of TH-immunopositive cells and dopamine in the substantia nigra and striatum. GPS treatment also attenuated increases in retention transfer latency on the elevated plus-maze test and in NMDA receptor expression, as well as decreases in the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and CREB in the hippocampus. Treatment with L-DOPA (10 mg/kg) also ameliorated deficits in habit learning and spatial memory in MPTP-lesioned mice, and this effect was further enhanced by treatment with GPS (50 mg/kg). Conclusion GPS ameliorate deficits in habit learning and spatial memory by modulating the dopaminergic neuronal and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated signaling systems in MPTP-lesioned mice treated with L-DOPA. GPS may serve as an adjuvant therapeutic agent for memory deficits in patients with PD receiving L-DOPA.
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Kumar S, Mishra A, Krishnamurthy S. Purinergic Antagonism Prevents Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Behavioral Deficits Associated with Dopaminergic Toxicity Induced by 6-OHDA in Rats. Neurochem Res 2017; 42:3414-3430. [PMID: 28836128 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-017-2383-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Purinoceptors are present in neurons, microglia and oligodendrocytes and regulate dopamine (DA) release, striatal-related function and striatal neuronal and DA cells damage. Therefore, purinoceptors may be involved in the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and purinergic antagonism may show neuroprotective effect. The study investigated the role of the non-selective purinergic receptor antagonist pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2', 4'-disulfonic acid (PPADS) and a selective purinergic receptor P2X7 receptor antagonist Brilliant Blue G (BBG) against 6-OHDA induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity in rats; while adenosine triphosphate (ATP) was used as a P2X receptor agonist. Behavioral parameters like spontaneous motor activity, narrow beam walk, footprint, bar catalepsy, grip strength and rotarod tests were performed to evaluate motor deficits in PD. Striatal DA contents were estimated as neurochemical measures of PD. Mitochondrial studies and oxidative status were assessed to investigate the mechanism of purinergic system antagonists. Involvement of purinergic receptors in apoptosis was assessed by expressing cytochrome-C, caspase-9 and caspase-3. Both the antagonists not only attenuated 6-OHDA induced motor deficits but also protected against 6-OHDA induced DA depletion in the striatum. Oxidative stress, mitochondrial integrity and dysfunction were attenuated by purinergic antagonists. Further, they attenuated mitochondrial-linked apoptosis as observed by a decrease in expression of cytochrome-C, caspase-9 and caspase-3. Therefore, purinoceptor antagonism shows neuroprotective effect in 6-OHDA induced dopamine toxicity through preservation of mitochondrial bioenergetics and anti-apoptotic activities.
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- Saket Kumar
- Neurotherapeutics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, U.P., 221 005, India
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- Neurotherapeutics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, U.P., 221 005, India
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- Neurotherapeutics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, U.P., 221 005, India.
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Quiroga-Varela A, Aguilar E, Iglesias E, Obeso JA, Marin C. Short- and long-term effects induced by repeated 6-OHDA intraventricular administration: A new progressive and bilateral rodent model of Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience 2017; 361:144-156. [PMID: 28823819 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), and the resulting striatal dopamine deficiency, which are responsible for the classic motor features. Although a diagnosis of PD relies on the clinical effects of dopamine deficiency, this disease is also associated with other neurotransmitter deficits that are recognized as causing various motor and non-motor symptoms. However, the cause of dopaminergic nigral neurodegeneration in PD and the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. While animal models are considered valuable tools with which to investigate dopaminergic cell vulnerability, rodent models usually fail to mimic the neurodegeneration progression that occurs in human PD. To find a convenient rat model for studying the progression of dopaminergic cell degeneration and motor signs, we have developed a progressive rodent model using a repeated daily, intraventricular administration of the neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) (100µg/day) in awakened rats for 1 to 10 consecutive days. The short- (6-day) and long-term (32-day) progression of motor alterations was studied. This model leads to a bilateral and progressive increase in catalepsy (evident from the 3rd infusion in the short-term groups (p<0.01) and from the 7th infusion in the long-term groups (p<0.01), which was associated with a progressive nigrostriatal dopaminergic deficit. All together this makes the new model an interesting experimental tool to investigate the mechanisms involved in the progression of dopaminergic neurodegeneration.
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- A Quiroga-Varela
- Movement Disorders Laboratory, Neurosciences Area, CIMA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain
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- Laboratori de Neurologia Experimental, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Laboratory, Neurosciences Area, CIMA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain
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- Movement Disorders Laboratory, Neurosciences Area, CIMA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain
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- INGENIO, IRCE, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
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Antipova VA, Holzmann C, Schmitt O, Wree A, Hawlitschka A. Botulinum Neurotoxin A Injected Ipsilaterally or Contralaterally into the Striatum in the Rat 6-OHDA Model of Unilateral Parkinson's Disease Differently Affects Behavior. Front Behav Neurosci 2017; 11:119. [PMID: 28680396 PMCID: PMC5478737 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most frequent neurodegenerative disorders. The loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra leads to a disinhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the striatum. Pharmacotherapeutical strategies of PD-related hypercholinism have numerous adverse side effects. We previously showed that ipsilateral intrastriatal injections of 1 ng in unilaterally 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-lesioned rats inhibit apomorphine-induced rotation behavior significantly up to 6 months. In this study, we extended the behavioral testing of ipsilateral botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A)-injection and additionally investigated the impact of intrastriatal BoNT-A-injections contralateral to the 6-OHDA-lesioned hemisphere on the basal ganglia circuity and motor functions. We hypothesized that the interhemispheric differences of acetylcholine (ACh) concentration seen in unilateral hemi-PD should be differentially and temporally influenced by the ipsilateral or contralateral injection of BoNT-A. Hemi-PD rats were injected with 1 ng BoNT-A or vehicle substance into either the ipsilateral or contralateral striatum 6 weeks after 6-OHDA-lesion and various behaviors were tested. In hemi-PD rats intrastriatal ipsilateral BoNT-A-injections significantly reduced apomorphine-induced rotations and increased amphetamine-induced rotations, but showed no significant improvement of forelimb usage and akinesia, lateralized sensorimotor integration and also no effect on spontaneous locomotor activity. However, intrastriatal BoNT-A-injections contralateral to the lesion led to a significant increase of the apomorphine-induced turning rate only 2 weeks after the treatment. The apomorphine-induced rotation rate decreases thereafter to a value below the initial rotation rate. Amphetamine-induced rotations were not significantly changed after BoNT-A-application in comparison to sham-treated animals. Forelimb usage was temporally improved by contralateral BoNT-A-injection at 2 weeks after BoNT-A. Akinesia and lateralized sensorimotor integration were also improved, but contralateral BoNT-A-injection had no significant effect on spontaneous locomotor activity. These long-ranging and different effects suggest that intrastriatally applied BoNT-A acts not only as an inhibitor of ACh release but also has long-lasting impact on transmitter expression and thereby on the basal ganglia circuitry. Evaluation of changes of transmitter receptors is subject of ongoing studies of our group.
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- Veronica A. Antipova
- Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical CenterRostock, Germany
- Institute of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy, Medical University of GrazGraz, Austria
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, Rostock University Medical CenterRostock, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical CenterRostock, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical CenterRostock, Germany
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Tangeretin inhibits neurodegeneration and attenuates inflammatory responses and behavioural deficits in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinson’s disease dementia in rats. Inflammopharmacology 2017; 25:471-484. [DOI: 10.1007/s10787-017-0348-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hsieh MH, Meng WY, Liao WC, Weng JC, Li HH, Su HL, Lin CL, Hung CS, Ho YJ. Ceftriaxone reverses deficits of behavior and neurogenesis in an MPTP-induced rat model of Parkinson's disease dementia. Brain Res Bull 2017; 132:129-138. [PMID: 28576659 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2017.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 04/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hyperactivity of the glutamatergic system is involved in excitotoxicity and neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) so that glutamatergic modulation maybe a potential therapeutic target for PD. Ceftriaxone (CEF) has been reported to increase glutamate uptake by increasing glutamate transporter expression and has been demonstrated neuroprotective effects in animal study. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of CEF on behavior and neurogenesis in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced PD rat model. MPTP was stereotaxically injected into the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) of male Wistar rats. Starting on the same day after MPTP lesioning (day 0), the rats were injected daily with either CEF or saline for 14days and underwent a T-maze test on days 8-10 and an object recognition test on days 12-14, then the brain was taken for histological evaluation on day 15. The results showed that MPTP lesioning resulted in decreased motor function, working memory, and object recognition and reduced neurogenesis in the substantial nigra and dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. These behavioral and neuronal changes were prevented by CEF treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing that CEF prevents loss of neurogenesis in the brain of PD rats. CEF may therefore have clinical potential in the treatment of PD.
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- Ming-Hong Hsieh
- Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Department of Pediatrics, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Life Sciences, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC.
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- Occupational Safety and Health Office, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 10341, Taiwan, ROC.
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC.
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Barros AS, Crispim RYG, Cavalcanti JU, Souza RB, Lemos JC, Cristino Filho G, Bezerra MM, Pinheiro TFM, de Vasconcelos SMM, Macêdo DS, de Barros Viana GS, Aguiar LMV. Impact of the Chronic Omega-3 Fatty Acids Supplementation in Hemiparkinsonism Model Induced by 6-Hydroxydopamine in Rats. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2017; 120:523-531. [DOI: 10.1111/bcpt.12713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Federal University of Ceará; Fortaleza Ceará Brazil
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Lima BFC, Ramos DC, Barbiero JK, Pulido L, Redgrave P, Robinson DL, Gómez-A A, Da Cunha C. Partial lesion of dopamine neurons of rat substantia nigra impairs conditioned place aversion but spares conditioned place preference. Neuroscience 2017; 349:264-277. [PMID: 28279753 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.02.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Revised: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Midbrain dopamine neurons play critical roles in reward- and aversion-driven associative learning. However, it is not clear whether they do this by a common mechanism or by separate mechanisms that can be dissociated. In the present study we addressed this question by testing whether a partial lesion of the dopamine neurons of the rat SNc has comparable effects on conditioned place preference (CPP) learning and conditioned place aversion (CPA) learning. Partial lesions of dopamine neurons in the rat substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) induced by bilateral intranigral infusion of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA, 3μg/side) or 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP, 200μg/side) impaired learning of conditioned place aversion (CPA) without affecting conditioned place preference (CPP) learning. Control experiments demonstrated that these lesions did not impair motor performance and did not alter the hedonic value of the sucrose and quinine. The number of dopamine neurons in the caudal part of the SNc positively correlated with the CPP scores of the 6-OHDA rats and negatively correlated with CPA scores of the SHAM rats. In addition, the CPA scores of the 6-OHDA rats positively correlated with the tissue content of striatal dopamine. Insomuch as reward-driven learning depends on an increase in dopamine release by nigral neurons, these findings show that this mechanism is functional even in rats with a partial lesion of the SNc. On the other hand, if aversion-driven learning depends on a reduction of extracellular dopamine in the striatum, the present study suggests that this mechanism is no longer functional after the partial SNc lesion.
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- Bernardo F C Lima
- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7178, USA
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81.530-980, PR, Brazil.
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Seip-Cammack KM, Young JJ, Young ME, Shapiro ML. Partial lesion of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway in rats impairs egocentric learning but not spatial learning or behavioral flexibility. Behav Neurosci 2017; 131:135-142. [PMID: 28221082 DOI: 10.1037/bne0000189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system in Parkinson's disease (PD) causes motor dysfunction and cognitive impairment, but the etiology of the cognitive deficits remains unclear. The present study investigated the behavioral effects of partial lesions of the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) pathway. Rats received bilateral infusions of either 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) or vehicle into the dorsolateral striatum and were tested in spatial and procedural learning tasks. Compared with intact rats, DA-depleted rats were impaired when the first task they learned required egocentric responses. Intact rats that received prior training on a spatial task were impaired while learning a subsequent body-turn task, suggesting that prior spatial training may compete with egocentric learning in intact but not DA-depleted rats. Spatial discrimination, reversal learning, and switching between allocentric and egocentric strategies were similar in both groups. The results suggest that DA loss that is not associated with gross motor pathology temporarily impairs egocentric, but not allocentric, learning or subsequent behavioral flexibility. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Liu LX, Du D, Zheng T, Fang Y, Chen YS, Yi HL, He QY, Gao DW, Shi QL. Detecting dopaminergic neuronal degeneration using diffusion tensor imaging in a rotenone-induced rat model of Parkinson's disease: fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity values. Neural Regen Res 2017; 12:1485-1491. [PMID: 29089995 PMCID: PMC5649470 DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.213559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Dopamine content in the basal ganglia is strongly associated with the degree of dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Symptoms of Parkinson's disease might not arise until more than 50% of the substantia nigra pars compacta is lost and the dopamine content in the basal ganglia is reduced by more than 80%. Greater diagnostic sensitivity and specificity would allow earlier detection of Parkinson's disease. Diffusion tensor imaging is a recently developed magnetic resonance imaging technique that measures mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy, and responds to changes in brain microstructure. When the microscopic barrier (including cell membranes, microtubules and other structures that interfere with the free diffusion of water) is destroyed and extracellular fluid volume accumulates, the mean diffusivity value increases; when the integrity of the microstructure (such as myelin) is destroyed, fractional anisotropy value decreases. However, there is no consensus as to whether these changes can reflect the early pathological alterations in Parkinson's disease. Here, we established a rat model of Parkinson's disease by injecting rotenone (or sunflower oil in controls) into the right substantia nigra. Diffusion tensor imaging results revealed that in the stages of disease, at 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks after rotenone injection, fractional anisotropy value decreased, but mean diffusivity values increased in the right substantia nigra in the experimental group. Fractional anisotropy values were lower at 4 weeks than at 6 weeks in the right substantia nigra of rats from the experimental group. Mean diffusivity values were markedly greater at 1 week than at 6 weeks in the right corpus striatum of rats from the experimental group. These findings suggest that mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy values in the brain of rat models of Parkinson's disease 4 weeks after model establishment can reflect early degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. The change in fractional anisotropy values after destruction of myelin integrity is likely to be of greater early diagnostic significance than the change in mean diffusivity values.
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- Lan-Xiang Liu
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China
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- Scientific Clinical Specialist, Siemens Ltd., Beijing, China
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Kim KS, Zhao TT, Shin KS, Park HJ, Cho YJ, Lee KE, Kim SH, Lee MK. Gynostemma pentaphyllum Ethanolic Extract Protects Against Memory Deficits in an MPTP-Lesioned Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease Treated with L-DOPA. J Med Food 2017; 20:11-18. [DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2016.3764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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- Kyung Sook Kim
- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
- Research Center for Bioresource and Health, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Social Physical Education, Songwon University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
- Research Center for Bioresource and Health, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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Effects of (−)-sesamin on motor and memory deficits in an MPTP-lesioned mouse model of Parkinson’s disease treated with l-DOPA. Neuroscience 2016; 339:644-654. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.10.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Effects of (-)-sesamin on chronic stress-induced memory deficits in mice. Neurosci Lett 2016; 634:114-118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.09.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Revised: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Activation and blockade of serotonin6 receptors in the dorsal hippocampus enhance T maze and hole-board performance in a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine rat model of Parkinson's disease. Brain Res 2016; 1650:184-195. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2016] [Revised: 08/28/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Antioxidant-Rich Fraction of Urtica dioica Mediated Rescue of Striatal Mito-Oxidative Damage in MPTP-Induced Behavioral, Cellular, and Neurochemical Alterations in Rats. Mol Neurobiol 2016; 54:5632-5645. [PMID: 27624385 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-016-0084-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) having a complex and multi-factorial neuropathology includes mainly the degeneration of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway, which is a cumulative effect of depleted endogenous antioxidant enzymes, increased oxidative DNA damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, excitotoxicity, and neuroinflammation. The present study was designed to investigate the neuroprotective effect of a potent antioxidant from Urtica dioica in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of parkinsonism. MPTP was administered intranigrally for the induction of PD in male Wistar rats. Behavioral alterations were assessed in between the study period. Animals were sacrificed immediately after behavioral session, and different biochemical, cellular, and neurochemical parameters were measured. Intranigrally repeated administration of MPTP showed significant impairment of motor co-ordination and marked increase of mito-oxidative damage and neuroinflammation in rats. Intranigral MPTP significantly decreases the dopamine and its metabolites with impairment of dopaminergic cell density in rat brain. However, post-treatment with the potent antioxidant fraction of Urtica dioica Linn. (UD) (20, 40, 80 mg/kg) improved the motor function, mito-oxidative defense alteration significantly and dose dependently in MPTP-treated rats. In addition, the potent antioxidant fraction of UD attenuated the pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IL-β) and restored the level of dopamine and its metabolites in MPTP-induced PD in rats. Moreover, minocycline (30 mg/kg) with lower dose of UD (20 mg/kg) had significantly potentiated the protective effect of minocycline as compared to its effect with other individual drug-treated groups. In conclusion, Urtica dioica protected the dopaminergic neurons probably by reducing mito-oxidative damage, neuroinflammation, and cellular alteration along with enhanced neurotrophic potential. The above results revealed that the antioxidant rich fraction of UD contain flavonoids and phenolic compounds, which have a promising approach in therapeutics of PD.
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More SV, Kumar H, Cho DY, Yun YS, Choi DK. Toxin-Induced Experimental Models of Learning and Memory Impairment. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:E1447. [PMID: 27598124 PMCID: PMC5037726 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17091447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/25/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Animal models for learning and memory have significantly contributed to novel strategies for drug development and hence are an imperative part in the assessment of therapeutics. Learning and memory involve different stages including acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval and each stage can be characterized using specific toxin. Recent studies have postulated the molecular basis of these processes and have also demonstrated many signaling molecules that are involved in several stages of memory. Most insights into learning and memory impairment and to develop a novel compound stems from the investigations performed in experimental models, especially those produced by neurotoxins models. Several toxins have been utilized based on their mechanism of action for learning and memory impairment such as scopolamine, streptozotocin, quinolinic acid, and domoic acid. Further, some toxins like 6-hydroxy dopamine (6-OHDA), 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and amyloid-β are known to cause specific learning and memory impairment which imitate the disease pathology of Parkinson's disease dementia and Alzheimer's disease dementia. Apart from these toxins, several other toxins come under a miscellaneous category like an environmental pollutant, snake venoms, botulinum, and lipopolysaccharide. This review will focus on the various classes of neurotoxin models for learning and memory impairment with their specific mechanism of action that could assist the process of drug discovery and development for dementia and cognitive disorders.
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- Sandeep Vasant More
- Department of Biotechnology, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.
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Grow DA, McCarrey JR, Navara CS. Advantages of nonhuman primates as preclinical models for evaluating stem cell-based therapies for Parkinson's disease. Stem Cell Res 2016; 17:352-366. [PMID: 27622596 DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2016.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2016] [Revised: 08/10/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The derivation of dopaminergic neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells brings new hope for a patient-specific, stem cell-based replacement therapy to treat Parkinson's disease (PD) and related neurodegenerative diseases; and this novel cell-based approach has already proven effective in animal models. However, there are several aspects of this procedure that have yet to be optimized to the extent required for translation to an optimal cell-based transplantation protocol in humans. These challenges include pinpointing the optimal graft location, appropriately scaling up the graft volume, and minimizing the risk of chronic immune rejection, among others. To advance this procedure to the clinic, it is imperative that a model that accurately and fully recapitulates characteristics most pertinent to a cell-based transplantation to the human brain is used to optimize key technical aspects of the procedure. Nonhuman primates mimic humans in multiple ways including similarities in genomics, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, immunogenetics, and age-related changes in immune function. These characteristics are critical to the establishment of a relevant model in which to conduct preclinical studies to optimize the efficacy and safety of cell-based therapeutic approaches to the treatment of PD. Here we review previous studies in rodent models, and emphasize additional advantages afforded by nonhuman primate models in general, and the baboon model in particular, for preclinical optimization of cell-based therapeutic approaches to the treatment of PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. We outline current unresolved challenges to the successful application of stem cell therapies in humans and propose that the baboon model in particular affords a number of traits that render it most useful for preclinical studies designed to overcome these challenges.
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- Douglas A Grow
- Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Cellular Therapeutics Institute, PriStem, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Cellular Therapeutics Institute, PriStem, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Cellular Therapeutics Institute, PriStem, United States.
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Wattanathorn J, Sutalangka C. Novel Food Supplement "CP1" Improves Motor Deficit, Cognitive Function, and Neurodegeneration in Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease. Rejuvenation Res 2016; 19:273-85. [PMID: 26414358 DOI: 10.1089/rej.2015.1729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Based on pivotal roles of oxidative stress, dopaminergic and cholinergic systems on the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD), the searching for functional food for patients attacked with PD from Cyperus rotundus and Zingiber officinale, the substances possessing antioxidant activity, and the suppression effects on monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) have been considered. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of the combined extract of C. rotundus and Z. officinale (CP1) to improve motor and memory deficits, neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, and functions of both cholinergic and dopaminergic systems in the animal model of PD induced by 6-hydroxydopamine hydrochloride (6-OHDA). Male Wistar rats, weighing 180-220 g, were induced unilateral lesion at right substantia nigra by 6-OHDA and were orally given CP1 at doses of 100, 200, and 300 mg/kg body weight for 14 days after 6-OHDA injection. The results showed that the 6-OHDA rats treated with CP1 increased spatial memory, but decreased neurodegeneration, malondialdehyde level, and AChE activity in hippocampus. The decreased motor disorder and neurodegeneration in substantia nigra together with the enhanced catalase activity, but decreased MAO-B activity in striatum, were also observed. The memory enhancing effect of CP1 might occur through the improved oxidative stress and the enhanced cholinergic function, whereas the effect to improve motor disorder of CP1 might occur through the enhanced dopaminergic function in striatum by decreasing the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and the suppression of MAO-B. Therefore, CP1 is the potential functional food against PD. However, further researches in clinical trial and drug interactions are essential.
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- Jintanaporn Wattanathorn
- 1 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University , Khon Kaen, Thailand
- 2 Integrative Complementary Alternative Medicine Research and Development Center, Khon Kaen University , Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- 2 Integrative Complementary Alternative Medicine Research and Development Center, Khon Kaen University , Khon Kaen, Thailand
- 3 Neuroscience Program, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University , Khon Kaen, Thailand
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The impact of biological sex and sex hormones on cognition in a rat model of early, pre-motor Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience 2016; 345:297-314. [PMID: 27235739 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Revised: 05/13/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is well known for motor deficits such as bradykinesia. However, patients often experience additional deficits in working memory, behavioral selection, decision-making and other executive functions. Like other features of PD, the incidence and severity of these cognitive symptoms differ in males and females. However, preclinical models have not been used to systematically investigate the roles that sex or sex hormones may play in these complex signs. To address this, we used a Barnes maze spatial memory paradigm to compare the effects of a bilateral nigrostriatal dopamine lesion model of early PD on cognitive behaviors in adult male and female rats and in adult male rats that were gonadectomized or gonadectomized and supplemented with testosterone or estradiol. We found that dopamine lesions produced deficits in working memory and other executive operations, albeit only in male rats where circulating androgen levels were physiological. In males where androgen levels were depleted, lesions produced no additional Barnes maze deficits and attenuated those previously linked to androgen deprivation. We also found that while most measures of Barnes maze performance were unaffected by dopamine lesions in the females, lesions did induce dramatic shifts from their preferred use of thigmotactic navigation to the use of spatially guided place strategies similar to those normally preferred by males. These and other sex- and sex hormone-specific differences in the effects of nigrostriatal dopamine lesions on executive function highlight the potential of gonadal steroids as protective and/or therapeutic for the cognitive symptoms of PD. However, their complexity also indicates the need for a more thorough understanding of androgen and estrogen effects in guiding the development of hormone therapies that might effectively address these non-motor signs.
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Herbin M, Simonis C, Revéret L, Hackert R, Libourel PA, Eugène D, Diaz J, de Waele C, Vidal PP. Dopamine Modulates Motor Control in a Specific Plane Related to Support. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0155058. [PMID: 27145032 PMCID: PMC4856377 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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At the acute stage following unilateral labyrinthectomy (UL), rats, mice or guinea pigs exhibit a complex motor syndrome combining circling (HSCC lesion) and rolling (utricular lesion). At the chronic stage, they only display circling, because proprioceptive information related to the plane of support substitutes the missing utricular information to control posture in the frontal plane. Circling is also observed following unilateral lesion of the mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons by 6- hydroxydopamine hydrobromide (6-OHDA rats) and systemic injection of apomorphine (APO rats). The resemblance of behavior induced by unilateral vestibular and dopaminergic lesions at the chronic stage can be interpreted in two ways. One hypothesis is that the dopaminergic system exerts three-dimensional control over motricity, as the vestibular system does. If this hypothesis is correct, then a unilateral lesion of the nigro-striatal pathway should induce three-dimensional motor deficits, i.e., circling and at least some sort of barrel rolling at the acute stage of the lesion. Then, compensation could also take place very rapidly based on proprioception, which would explain the prevalence of circling. In addition, barrel rolling should reappear when the rodent is placed in water, as it occurs in UL vertebrates. Alternatively, the dopaminergic network, together with neurons processing the horizontal canal information, could control the homeostasis of posture and locomotion specifically in one and only one plane of space, i.e. the plane related to the basis of support. In that case, barrel rolling should never occur, whether at the acute or chronic stage on firm ground or in water. Moreover, circling should have the same characteristics following both types of lesions. Clearly, 6-OHDA and APO-rats never exhibited barrel rolling at the acute stage. They circled at the acute stage of the lesion and continued to do so three weeks later, including in water. In contrast, UL-rats, exhibited both circling and barrel rolling at the acute stage, and then only circled on the ground. Furthermore, barrel rolling instantaneously reappeared in water in UL rats, which was not the case in 6-OHDA and APO-rats. That is, the lesion of the dopaminergic system on one side did not compromise trim in the pitch and roll planes, even when proprioceptive information related to the basis of support was lacking as in water. Altogether, these results strongly suggest that dopamine does not exert three-dimensional control of the motor system but regulates postural control in one particular plane of space, the one related to the basis of support. In contrast, as previously shown, the vestibular system exerts three-dimensional control on posture. That is, we show here for the first time a relationship between a given neuromodulator and the spatial organization of motor control.
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- Marc Herbin
- UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Dpt EGB, CP 55, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
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- UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Dpt EGB, CP 55, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
- MENESR, DEPP, 61–65 rue Dudot 75015 Paris, France
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- LJK, CNRS UMR 5224 INRIA/UJF, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655 av de l’Europe, 38330 Montbonnot, France
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- UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Dpt EGB, CP 55, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
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- UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Dpt EGB, CP 55, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
- SLEEP Physiopathologie des réseaux neuronaux du cycle sommeil, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM U1028—CNRS UMR5292, Faculté de Médecine Laennec, 7 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69372 LYON Cedex 08 France
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- Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie, Pathologie, Université Paris Descartes-CNRS UMR-8119, 45 rue des Saint-Pères, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
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- Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, INSERM UMR 894—Université Paris Descartes, 2ter, rue d'Alésia, 78014 Paris, France
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- COGNAC-G Université Paris Descartes-CNRS UMR-MD-SSA, 45 rue des Saint-Pères, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
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- COGNAC-G Université Paris Descartes-CNRS UMR-MD-SSA, 45 rue des Saint-Pères, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
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Asakawa T, Fang H, Sugiyama K, Nozaki T, Hong Z, Yang Y, Hua F, Ding G, Chao D, Fenoy AJ, Villarreal SJ, Onoe H, Suzuki K, Mori N, Namba H, Xia Y. Animal behavioral assessments in current research of Parkinson's disease. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 65:63-94. [PMID: 27026638 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Revised: 03/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder, is traditionally classified as a movement disorder. Patients typically suffer from many motor dysfunctions. Presently, clinicians and scientists recognize that many non-motor symptoms are associated with PD. There is an increasing interest in both motor and non-motor symptoms in clinical studies on PD patients and laboratory research on animal models that imitate the pathophysiologic features and symptoms of PD patients. Therefore, appropriate behavioral assessments are extremely crucial for correctly understanding the mechanisms of PD and accurately evaluating the efficacy and safety of novel therapies. This article systematically reviews the behavioral assessments, for both motor and non-motor symptoms, in various animal models involved in current PD research. We addressed the strengths and weaknesses of these behavioral tests and their appropriate applications. Moreover, we discussed potential mechanisms behind these behavioral tests and cautioned readers against potential experimental bias. Since most of the behavioral assessments currently used for non-motor symptoms are not particularly designed for animals with PD, it is of the utmost importance to greatly improve experimental design and evaluation in PD research with animal models. Indeed, it is essential to develop specific assessments for non-motor symptoms in PD animals based on their characteristics. We concluded with a prospective view for behavioral assessments with real-time assessment with mobile internet and wearable device in future PD research.
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- Tetsuya Asakawa
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan; Department of Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Jinshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, Soochow University School of Medicine, Changzhou, China
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- The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, Soochow University School of Medicine, Changzhou, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Acupuncture Mechanism and Acupoint Function, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas McGovern Medical School,Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas McGovern Medical School,Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas McGovern Medical School,Houston, TX, USA
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- Functional Probe Research Laboratory, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas McGovern Medical School,Houston, TX, USA.
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Weng JC, Tikhonova MA, Chen JH, Shen MS, Meng WY, Chang YT, Chen KH, Liang KC, Hung CS, Amstislavskaya TG, Ho YJ. Ceftriaxone prevents the neurodegeneration and decreased neurogenesis seen in a Parkinson's disease rat model: An immunohistochemical and MRI study. Behav Brain Res 2016; 305:126-39. [PMID: 26940602 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.02.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Revised: 02/19/2016] [Accepted: 02/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) is a widely used technique for detecting neuronal activity in the brain of a living animal. Ceftriaxone (CEF) has been shown to have neuroprotective effects in neurodegenerative diseases. The present study was aimed at clarifying whether, in an 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) rat model, the known CEF-induced neuronal protection was accompanied by neurogenesis and decreased loss of neuronal activity. After MPTP lesioning (day 0), the rats were treated with CEF (100mg/kg/day, i.p.) or saline for 15 days. They were then injected with MnCl2 (40mg/kg, i.p.) on day 13 and underwent a brain MRI scan on day 14, then the brain was taken for histological evaluation on day 15. The results showed that MPTP lesioning resulted in decreased neuronal activity and density in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic (DAergic) system and the hippocampal CA1, CA3, and dentate gyrus (DG) areas and reduced neurogenesis in the DG, but in hyperactivity in the subthalamic nucleus (STN). These neuronal changes were prevented by CEF treatment. Positive correlations between MEMRI R1 values and neuronal density in the hippocampus were evidenced. Neuronal densities in the hippocampus and SNc were positively correlated. In addition, the R1 value of the STN showed a positive correlation with its neuronal activity but showed a negative correlation with the density of DAergic neurons in the SNc. Therefore, MEMRI R1 value may serve as a good indicator for PD severity and the effect of treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing that CEF prevents loss of neuronal activity and neurogenesis in the brain of PD rats. CEF may therefore have clinical potential in the treatment of PD.
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- Jun-Cheng Weng
- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Department of Medical Imaging, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Laboratory of Experimental Models of Neurodegenerative Processes, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine", Novosibirsk 630117, Russia
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- School of Physical Therapy, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC; Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC
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- Occupational Safety and Health Office, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 10341, Taiwan, ROC.
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- Laboratory of Experimental Models of Emotional Pathology, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine", Novosibirsk 630117, Russia.
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC.
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Matheus FC, Rial D, Real JI, Lemos C, Ben J, Guaita GO, Pita IR, Sequeira AC, Pereira FC, Walz R, Takahashi RN, Bertoglio LJ, Da Cunha C, Cunha RA, Prediger RD. Decreased synaptic plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex underlies short-term memory deficits in 6-OHDA-lesioned rats. Behav Brain Res 2015; 301:43-54. [PMID: 26707254 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Revised: 12/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by motor dysfunction associated with dopaminergic degeneration in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS). However, motor symptoms in PD are often preceded by short-term memory deficits, which have been argued to involve deregulation of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). We now used a 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) rat PD model to explore if alterations of synaptic plasticity in DLS and mPFC underlie short-term memory impairments in PD prodrome. The bilateral injection of 6-OHDA (20μg/hemisphere) in the DLS caused a marked loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (>80%) and decreased monoamine levels in the striatum and PFC, accompanied by motor deficits evaluated after 21 days in the open field and accelerated rotarod. A lower dose of 6-OHDA (10μg/hemisphere) only induced a partial degeneration (about 60%) of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra with no gross motor impairments, thus mimicking an early premotor stage of PD. Notably, 6-OHDA (10μg)-lesioned rats displayed decreased monoamine levels in the PFC as well as short-term memory deficits evaluated in the novel object discrimination and in the modified Y-maze tasks; this was accompanied by a selective decrease in the amplitude of long-term potentiation in the mPFC, but not in DLS, without changes of synaptic transmission in either brain regions. These results indicate that the short-term memory dysfunction predating the motor alterations in the 6-OHDA model of PD is associated with selective changes of information processing in PFC circuits, typified by persistent changes of synaptic plasticity.
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- Filipe C Matheus
- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88049-900, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88049-900, SC, Brazil; CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centro de Neurociências Aplicadas (CeNAp), Hospital Universitário (HU), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81531-980, PR, Brazil
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3005-504 Coimbra, Portugal; Departamento de Farmacologia e Terapêuticas Experimentais/IBILI, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3005-504 Coimbra, Portugal; Departamento de Farmacologia e Terapêuticas Experimentais/IBILI, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3005-504 Coimbra, Portugal; Departamento de Farmacologia e Terapêuticas Experimentais/IBILI, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centro de Neurociências Aplicadas (CeNAp), Hospital Universitário (HU), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88049-900, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88049-900, SC, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81531-980, PR, Brazil
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal; Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3005-504 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88049-900, SC, Brazil; Centro de Neurociências Aplicadas (CeNAp), Hospital Universitário (HU), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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Inability to acquire spatial information and deploy spatial search strategies in mice with lesions in dorsomedial striatum. Behav Brain Res 2015; 298:134-41. [PMID: 26548360 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Revised: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dorsal striatum has been shown to contribute to spatial learning and memory, but the role of striatal subregions in this important aspect of cognitive functioning remains unclear. Moreover, the spatial-cognitive mechanisms that underlie the involvement of these regions in spatial navigation have scarcely been studied. We therefore compared spatial learning and memory performance in mice with lesions in dorsomedial (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS) using the hidden-platform version of the Morris water maze (MWM) task. Compared to sham-operated controls, animals with DMS damage were impaired during MWM acquisition training. These mice displayed delayed spatial learning, increased thigmotaxis, and increased search distance to the platform, in the absence of major motor dysfunction, working memory defects or changes in anxiety or exploration. They failed to show a preference for the target quadrant during probe trials, which further indicates that spatial reference memory was impaired in these animals. Search strategy analysis moreover demonstrated that DMS-lesioned mice were unable to deploy cognitively advanced spatial search strategies. Conversely, MWM performance was barely affected in animals with lesions in DLS. In conclusion, our results indicate that DMS and DLS display differential functional involvement in spatial learning and memory. Our results show that DMS, but not DLS, is crucial for the ability of mice to acquire spatial information and their subsequent deployment of spatial search strategies. These data clearly identify DMS as a crucial brain structure for spatial learning and memory, which could explain the occurrence of neurocognitive impairments in brain disorders that affect the dorsal striatum.
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Willard AM, Bouchard RS, Gittis AH. Differential degradation of motor deficits during gradual dopamine depletion with 6-hydroxydopamine in mice. Neuroscience 2015; 301:254-67. [PMID: 26067595 PMCID: PMC4527082 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder whose cardinal motor symptoms arise due to the progressive loss of dopamine. Although this dopamine loss typically progresses slowly over time, currently there are very few animal models that enable incremental dopamine depletion over time within the same animal. This type of gradual dopamine depletion model would be useful in studies aimed at the prodromal phase of PD, when dopamine levels are pathologically low but motor symptoms have not yet presented. Utilizing the highly characterized neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), we have developed a paradigm to gradually deplete dopamine levels in the striatum over a user-defined time course - spanning weeks to months - in C57BL/6 mice. Dopamine depletions were achieved by administration of five low-dose injections (0.75μg) of 6-OHDA through an implanted intracranial bilateral cannula targeting the medial forebrain bundle. Levels of dopamine within the striatum declined linearly with successive injections, quantified using tyrosine hydroxylase immunostaining and high-performance liquid chromatography. Behavioral testing was carried out at each time point to study the onset and progression of motor impairments as a function of dopamine loss over time. We found that spontaneous locomotion, measured in an open field, was robust until ∼70% of striatal dopamine was lost. Beyond this point, additional dopamine loss caused a sharp decline in motor performance, reaching a final level comparable to that of acutely depleted mice. Similarly, although rearing behavior was more sensitive to dopamine loss and declined linearly as a function of dopamine levels, it eventually declined to levels similar to those seen in acutely depleted mice. In contrast, motor coordination, measured on a vertical pole task, was only moderately impaired in gradually depleted mice, despite severe impairments observed in acutely depleted mice. These results demonstrate the importance of the temporal profile of dopamine loss on the magnitude and progression of behavioral impairments. Our gradual depletion model thus establishes a new paradigm with which to study how circuits respond and adapt to dopamine loss over time, information which could uncover important cellular events during the prodromal phase of PD that ultimately impact the presentation or treatability of behavioral symptoms.
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- A M Willard
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Huang CK, Chang YT, Amstislavskaya TG, Tikhonova MA, Lin CL, Hung CS, Lai TJ, Ho YJ. Synergistic effects of ceftriaxone and erythropoietin on neuronal and behavioral deficits in an MPTP-induced animal model of Parkinson's disease dementia. Behav Brain Res 2015; 294:198-207. [PMID: 26296668 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Revised: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Both ceftriaxone (CEF) and erythropoietin (EPO) show neuroprotection and cognitive improvement in neurodegenerative disease. The present study was aimed at clarifying whether combined treatment with CEF and EPO (CEF+EPO) had superior neuroprotective and behavioral effects than treatment with CEF or EPO alone in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) rat model. The rats were injected with CEF (5 mg/kg/day), EPO (100 IU/kg/day), or CEF+EPO after MPTP lesioning and underwent the bar-test, T-maze test, and object recognition test, then the brains were taken for histological evaluation. MPTP lesioning resulted in deficits in working memory and in object recognition, but the cognitive deficits were markedly reduced or eliminated in rats treated with CEF or CEF+EPO, with the combination having a greater effect. Lesioning also caused neurodegeneration in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system and the hippocampal CA1 area and these changes were reduced or eliminated by treatment with CEF, EPO, or CEF+EPO, with the combination having a greater effect than single treatment in the densities of DAergic terminals in the striatum and neurons in the hippocampal CA1 area. Thus, compared to treatment with CEF or EPO alone, combined treatment with CEF+EPO had a greater inhibitory effect on the lesion-induced behavioral and neuronal deficits. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing a synergistic effect of CEF and EPO on neuroprotection and improvement in cognition in a PD rat model. Combined CEF and EPO treatment may have clinical potential for the treatment of the dementia associated with PD.
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- Chiu-Ku Huang
- Department of Pharmacy, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Laboratory of Experimental Models of Emotional Pathology, Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution, Novosibirsk 630117, Russia
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- Laboratory of Experimental Models of Neurodegenerative Processes, Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution, Novosibirsk 630117, Russia
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- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Occupational Safety and Health Office, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 10341, Taiwan, ROC.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC; Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC.
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC.
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Long-term treatment with l-DOPA or pramipexole affects adult neurogenesis and corresponding non-motor behavior in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Neuropharmacology 2015; 95:367-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2015.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2014] [Revised: 03/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug piroxicam reverses the onset of depressive-like behavior in 6-OHDA animal model of Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience 2015; 300:246-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 05/04/2015] [Accepted: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Niederkofler V, Asher TE, Dymecki SM. Functional Interplay between Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Neuronal Systems during Development and Adulthood. ACS Chem Neurosci 2015; 6:1055-1070. [PMID: 25747116 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5b00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The complex integration of neurotransmitter signals in the nervous system contributes to the shaping of behavioral and emotional constitutions throughout development. Imbalance among these signals may result in pathological behaviors and psychiatric illnesses. Therefore, a better understanding of the interplay between neurotransmitter systems holds potential to facilitate therapeutic development. Of particular clinical interest are the dopaminergic and serotonergic systems, as both modulate a broad array of behaviors and emotions and have been implicated in a wide range of affective disorders. Here we review evidence speaking to an interaction between the dopaminergic and serotonergic neuronal systems across development. We highlight data stemming from developmental, functional, and clinical studies, reflecting the importance of this transmonoaminergic interplay.
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- Vera Niederkofler
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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Mabandla MV, Nyoka M, Daniels WMU. Early use of oleanolic acid provides protection against 6-hydroxydopamine induced dopamine neurodegeneration. Brain Res 2015; 1622:64-71. [PMID: 26111646 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Revised: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Oleanolic acid is a triterpenoid that has been shown to possess antioxidant properties. In this study we investigated the effects of oleanolic acid in a parkinsonian rat model. Unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions were carried out on postnatal day (PND) 60 in 4 groups viz. (1) Rats that started oleanolic acid treatment 7 days prior to lesion. (2) Rats not treated with oleanolic acid. (3) Rats that started oleanolic acid treatment 1 day post-lesion. (4) Rats treated with oleanolic acid 7 days post-lesion. The degree of forelimb impairment was assessed using limb use asymmetry and forelimb akinesia tests. Neurochemical changes were assessed using a Dopamine ELISA kit and mitochondrial apoptosis was measured using a mitochondrial apoptosis detection kit. In this study, animals injected with 6-OHDA displayed forelimb use asymmetry that was ameliorated by treatment with oleanolic acid 7 days pre- and 1 day post-lesion. In the cylinder test, rats injected with 6-OHDA favored using the forelimb ipsilateral (unimpaired) to the lesioned hemisphere while rats treated with oleanolic acid used the forelimb contralateral (impaired) to the lesioned hemisphere significantly more. Rats treated with oleanolic acid 7 days pre- and 1 day post-lesion had more dopamine in the striatum than the non-treated or the 7 days after lesion rats. Similarly, 6-OHDA-induced membrane depolarization was decreased in rats that received oleanolic acid treatment pre- or immediately post-lesion. This suggests that early treatment with oleanolic acid protects dopamine neurons from the toxic effects of 6-OHDA.
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- Musa V Mabandla
- Discipline of Human Physiology, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban 4000, South Africa.
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- School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
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- School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
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Da Cunha C, Boschen SL, Gómez-A A, Ross EK, Gibson WSJ, Min HK, Lee KH, Blaha CD. Toward sophisticated basal ganglia neuromodulation: Review on basal ganglia deep brain stimulation. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 58:186-210. [PMID: 25684727 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Revised: 02/01/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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This review presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the roles of the basal ganglia (BG) in action-selection, cognition, and motivation, and how this knowledge has been used to improve deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Such pathological conditions include Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Tourette syndrome, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The first section presents evidence supporting current hypotheses of how the cortico-BG circuitry works to select motor and emotional actions, and how defects in this circuitry can cause symptoms of the BG diseases. Emphasis is given to the role of striatal dopamine on motor performance, motivated behaviors and learning of procedural memories. Next, the use of cutting-edge electrochemical techniques in animal and human studies of BG functioning under normal and disease conditions is discussed. Finally, functional neuroimaging studies are reviewed; these works have shown the relationship between cortico-BG structures activated during DBS and improvement of disease symptoms.
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- Claudio Da Cunha
- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
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Ramírez-García G, Palafox-Sánchez V, Limón ID. Nitrosative and cognitive effects of chronic L-DOPA administration in rats with intra-nigral 6-OHDA lesion. Neuroscience 2015; 290:492-508. [PMID: 25644418 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Revised: 01/17/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Besides motor disturbances, other symptoms found in the early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD) are deficits in both learning and memory. The nigro-striatal-cortical pathway is affected in this pathology, with this neuronal circuit involved in cognitive processes such as spatial working memory (SWM). However, cognitive dysfunction appears even when the patients are receiving L-DOPA treatment. There is evidence that the dopamine metabolism formed by L-DOPA generates free radicals such as nitric oxide, which may cause damage through the nitrosative stress (NS). The aim of this study was to evaluate both the effects of chronic L-DOPA administration on SWM and the production of NS in rats using an intra-nigral lesion caused by 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). Post-lesion, the animals were administered orally with L-DOPA/Carbidopa (100-mg/kg) for 20 days. An SWM task in a Morris water maze was conducted post-treatment. Nitrite levels and immunoreactivity of 3-Nitrotyrosine (3-NT), Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (iNOS), Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP), and Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH) were evaluated in the substantia nigra pars compacta, the dorsal striatum and the medial prefrontal cortex. Our results show that chronic L-DOPA administration in rats with intra-nigral 6-OHDA-lesion caused significant increases in SWM deficit, nitrite levels and the immunoreactivity of 3-NT, iNOS and GFAP in the nigro-striatal-cortical pathway. These facts suggest that as L-DOPA can induce NS in rats with dopaminergic intra-nigral lesion, it could play a key role in the impairment of the SWM, and thus can be considered as a toxic mechanism that induces cognitive deficit in PD patients.
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- G Ramírez-García
- Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 14 Sur y Avenida San Claudio, C.U. Edificio 105C Colonia, Jardines de San Manuel AP, 72570 Puebla, Mexico.
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- Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 14 Sur y Avenida San Claudio, C.U. Edificio 105C Colonia, Jardines de San Manuel AP, 72570 Puebla, Mexico.
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- Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 14 Sur y Avenida San Claudio, C.U. Edificio 105C Colonia, Jardines de San Manuel AP, 72570 Puebla, Mexico.
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Ceftriaxone prevents and reverses behavioral and neuronal deficits in an MPTP-induced animal model of Parkinson's disease dementia. Neuropharmacology 2014; 91:43-56. [PMID: 25499022 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2014] [Revised: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Glutamatergic hyperactivity plays an important role in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). Ceftriaxone increases expression of glutamate transporter 1 (GLT-1) and affords neuroprotection. This study was aimed at clarifying whether ceftriaxone prevented, or reversed, behavioral and neuronal deficits in an 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced PD rat model. Male Wistar rats were injected daily with either ceftriaxone starting 5 days before or 3 days after MPTP lesioning (day 0) or saline and underwent a bar-test on days 1-7, a T-maze test on days 9-11, and an object recognition test on days 12-14, then the brains were taken for histological evaluation on day 15. Dopaminergic degeneration in the substantia nigra pars compacta and striatum was observed on days 3 and 15. Motor dysfunction in the bar test was observed on day 1, but disappeared by day 7. In addition, lesioning resulted in deficits in working memory in the T-maze test and in object recognition in the object recognition task, but these were not observed in rats treated pre- or post-lesioning with ceftriaxone. Lesioning also caused neurodegeneration in the hippocampal CA1 area and induced glutamatergic hyperactivity in the subthalamic nucleus, and both changes were suppressed by ceftriaxone. Increased GLT-1 expression and its co-localization with astrocytes were observed in the striatum and hippocampus in the ceftriaxone-treated animals. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing a relationship between ceftriaxone-induced GLT-1 expression, neuroprotection, and improved cognition in a PD rat model. Ceftriaxone may have clinical potential for the prevention and treatment of dementia associated with PD.
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Li LB, Zhang L, Sun YN, Han LN, Wu ZH, Zhang QJ, Liu J. Activation of serotonin2A receptors in the medial septum-diagonal band of Broca complex enhanced working memory in the hemiparkinsonian rats. Neuropharmacology 2014; 91:23-33. [PMID: 25486618 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Serotonin2A (5-HT2A) receptors are highly expressed in the medial septum-diagonal band of Broca complex (MS-DB), especially in parvalbumin (PV)-positive neurons linked to hippocampal theta rhythm, which is involved in cognition. Cognitive impairments commonly occur in Parkinson's disease. Here we performed behavioral, electrophysiological, neurochemical and immunohistochemical studies in rats with complete unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB) to assess the importance of dopamine (DA) depletion and MS-DB 5-HT2A receptors for working memory. The MFB lesions resulted in working memory impairment and decreases in firing rate and density of MS-DB PV-positive neurons, peak frequency of hippocampal theta rhythm, and DA levels in septohippocampal system and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) compared to control rats. Intra-MS-DB injection of high affinity 5-HT2A receptor agonist TCB-2 enhanced working memory, increased firing rate of PV-positive neurons and peak frequency of hippocampal theta rhythm, elevated DA levels in the hippocampus and mPFC, and decreased 5-HT level in the hippocampus in control and lesioned rats. Compared to control rats, the duration of the excitatory effect produced by TCB-2 on the firing rate of PV-positive neurons was markedly shortened in lesioned rats, indicating dysfunction of 5-HT2A receptors. These findings suggest that unilateral lesions of the MFB in rats induced working memory deficit, and activation of MS-DB 5-HT2A receptors enhanced working memory, which may be due to changes in the activity of septohippocampal network and monoamine levels in the hippocampus and mPFC.
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- Li-Bo Li
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Second Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Second Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China.
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Laser Acupuncture at HT7 Acupoint Improves Cognitive Deficit, Neuronal Loss, Oxidative Stress, and Functions of Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Systems in Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2014; 2014:937601. [PMID: 25161693 PMCID: PMC4138813 DOI: 10.1155/2014/937601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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To date, the therapeutic strategy against cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) is still not in satisfaction level and requires novel effective intervention. Based the oxidative stress reduction and cognitive enhancement induced by laser acupuncture at HT7, the beneficial effect of laser acupuncture at HT7 against cognitive impairment in PD has been focused. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of laser acupuncture at HT7 on memory impairment, oxidative stress status, and the functions of both cholinergic and dopaminergic systems in hippocampus of animal model of PD. Male Wistar rats, weighing 180–220 g, were induced unilateral lesion at right substantianigra by 6-OHDA and were treated with laser acupuncture continuously at a period of 14 days. The results showed that laser acupuncture at HT7 enhanced memory and neuron density in CA3 and dentate gyrus. The decreased AChE, MAO-B, and MDA together with increased GSH-Px in hippocampus of a 6-OHDA lesion rats were also observed. In conclusion, laser acupuncture at HT7 can improve neuron degeneration and memory impairment in animal model of PD partly via the decreased oxidative stress and the improved cholinergic and dopaminergic functions. More researches concerning effect of treatment duration are still required.
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Song J, Zheng L, Zhang X, Feng X, Fan R, Sun L, Hong F, Zhang Y, Zhu J. Upregulation of β1-adrenoceptors is involved in the formation of gastric dysmotility in the 6-hydroxydopamine rat model of Parkinson's disease. Transl Res 2014; 164:22-31. [PMID: 24467967 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2014.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2013] [Revised: 01/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Gastrointestinal dysmotility is one of the nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). Gastroparesis and upregulated β-adrenoceptors (β-ARs) have been reported in rats with bilateral microinjection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) in the substantia nigra, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. The aim of the current study is to investigate the role of β-ARs in gastroparesis in 6-OHDA rats. Gastric motility was studied through strain gauge measurement. Immunofluorescence, real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting were performed to examine the expression of β-ARs. Norepinephrine (NE) inhibited gastric motility in a dose-dependent fashion in both control and 6-OHDA rats, but much stronger adrenergic reactivity was observed in the 6-OHDA rats. The inhibition of gastric motility by NE in both control and 6-OHDA rats was not affected by tetrodotoxin, a neural sodium channel blocker. Blocking β1-AR or β2-AR did not affect the inhibition of strip contraction by NE in control rats, but β1-AR blockage obviously enhanced the half maximal inhibitory concentration value of NE in 6-OHDA rats. Selective inhibition of β3-AR blocked the effect of NE significantly in both control and 6-OHDA rats. The protein expression of β1-AR, but not β2-AR and β3-AR in gastric muscularis externa was increased significantly in 6-OHDA rats. In conclusion, β3-AR involves the regulation of gastric motility in control rats, whereas the upregulation of β1-AR is responsible for enhanced NE reactivity in 6-OHDA rats and therefore is involved in the formation of gastroparesis. The effect of both β1-AR and β3-AR on gastric motility is independent of the enteric nervous system.
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- Jin Song
- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Gastrointestinal Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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Zheng LF, Song J, Fan RF, Chen CL, Ren QZ, Zhang XL, Feng XY, Zhang Y, Li LS, Zhu JX. The role of the vagal pathway and gastric dopamine in the gastroparesis of rats after a 6-hydroxydopamine microinjection in the substantia nigra. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2014; 211:434-46. [PMID: 24410908 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2013] [Revised: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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AIM Gastroparesis is a common non-motor system symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the mechanism responsible for the gastric motor abnormality is not clear. We previously reported on the impaired gastric motility in 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) rats, which were treated with a bilateral microinjection of 6-OHDA in the substantia nigra (SN). We hypothesize that the enhanced dopamine system and reduced acetylcholine (Ach) in gastric tissues might contribute to the delayed gastric emptying observed in PD. METHODS A strain gauge force transducer, digital X-ray imaging system, Western blot, immunofluorescence and Radio Immunoassay were used in this study. RESULTS Dopaminergic neurones in the SN were greatly reduced following the bilateral microinjection of 6-OHDA. 6-OHDA rats exhibited impaired gastric motility and delayed gastric emptying, accompanied by increased dopamine content and the overexpression of D2 receptors in the stomach. The administration of the D2 receptor antagonist domperidone relieved gastric dysmotility in 6-OHDA rats, but the D1 receptor antagonist SCH23390 failed to do so. Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy prevented the increase in the gastric dopamine content and D2 receptor expression and improved gastric dysmotility in 6-OHDA rats. CONCLUSION Dopaminergic deficiency in the SN results in impaired gastric motility, possibly as a result of the enhanced activity of dopamine system and reduced Ach in gastric tissue. The vagus nerve plays an important role in peripheral gastric motility disorder.
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Capital Medical University; Beijing China
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Ho SC, Hsu CC, Yu CH, Huang WN, Tikhonova MA, Ho MC, Hung CS, Amstislavskaya TG, Ho YJ. Measuring attention in a Parkinson's disease rat model using the 5-arm maze test. Physiol Behav 2014; 130:176-81. [PMID: 24690450 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Twenty to thirty percent of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from not only motor disorder, but also symptoms of dementia, named Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Cognitive deficits in PDD include memory, recognition, and attention. Although patients with PDD show fluctuation of internal attention when taking an attentional test, they perform better when provided with an external cue, indicating that they have normal external attention. We examined visuospatial attention in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced PD animal model using the 5-arm maze test. After an 8-day training period, followed by a 2-day pre-lesion test in the 5-arm maze, male Wistar rats received a microinfusion of MPTP into the substantia nigra pars compacta, while controls underwent a sham operation procedure. Nine days after MPTP lesioning, the rats underwent an open field test, followed by a 2-day post-lesion test in the maze. The results showed that: (1) no motor impairment was observed 9 days after MPTP lesioning; and (2) in the post-lesion 5-arm maze test, cue illumination lasting 0.5s resulted in a decrease in the percentage of correct responses compared to a 2 second cue in both the sham-operated and MPTP-lesioned groups and no difference was observed between these two groups. As far as we are aware, this is the first study examining visuospatial attention in the PD rat model using the 5-arm maze test. These results suggest that, as in patients with PDD, MPTP-induced PD rats show normal external attention function.
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- Shih-Chun Ho
- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Tungs' Taichung Metrohabor Hospital, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan, ROC
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC.
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Ho SC, Hsu CC, Pawlak CR, Tikhonova MA, Lai TJ, Amstislavskaya TG, Ho YJ. Effects of ceftriaxone on the behavioral and neuronal changes in an MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease rat model. Behav Brain Res 2014; 268:177-84. [PMID: 24755306 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 04/09/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hyperactivity of the glutamatergic system is involved in excitotoxicity and neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) and treatment with drugs modulating glutamatergic activity may have beneficial effects. Ceftriaxone has been reported to increase glutamate uptake by increasing glutamate transporter expression. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of ceftriaxone on working memory, object recognition, and neurodegeneration in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced PD rat model. MPTP was stereotaxically injected into the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) of male Wistar rats. Then, starting the next day (day 1), the rats were injected daily with either ceftriaxone (200 mg/kg/day, i.p.) or saline for 14 days and underwent a T-maze test on days 8-10 and an object recognition test on days 12-14. MPTP-lesioned rats showed impairments of working memory in the T-maze test and of recognition function in the object recognition test. The treatment of ceftriaxone decreased the above MPTP-induced cognitive deficits. Furthermore, this study provides evidence that ceftriaxone inhibits MPTP lesion-induced dopaminergic degeneration in the nigrostriatal system, microglial activation in the SNc, and cell loss in the hippocampal CA1 area. In conclusion, these data support the idea that hyperactivity of the glutamatergic system is involved in the pathophysiology of PD and suggest that ceftriaxone may be a promising pharmacological tool for the development of new treatments for the dementia associated with PD.
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- Shih-Chun Ho
- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC; Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Tungs' Taichung Metrohabor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, ROC
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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- School of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC; Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
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Lu C, Zhang J, Shi X, Miao S, Bi L, Zhang S, Yang Q, Zhou X, Zhang M, Xie Y, Miao Q, Wang S. Neuroprotective effects of tetramethylpyrazine against dopaminergic neuron injury in a rat model of Parkinson's disease induced by MPTP. Int J Biol Sci 2014; 10:350-7. [PMID: 24719552 PMCID: PMC3979987 DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.8366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2013] [Accepted: 01/31/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent progressive neurodegenerative disease. Although several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the pathogenesis of PD, apoptotic cell death and oxidative stress are the most prevalent mechanisms. Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) is a biological component that has been extracted from Ligusticum wallichii Franchat (ChuanXiong), which exhibits anti-apoptotic and antioxidant roles. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the possible protective effect of TMP against dopaminergic neuron injury in a rat model of Parkinson's disease induced by MPTP and to elucidate probable molecular mechanisms. The results showed that TMP could notably prevent MPTP-induced dopaminergic neurons damage, reflected by improvement of motor deficits, enhancement of TH expression and the content of dopamine and its metabolite, DOPAC. We observed MPTP-induced activation of mitochondrial apoptotic death pathway, evidenced by up-regulation of Bax, down-regulation of Bcl-2, release of cytochrome c and cleavage of caspase 3, which was significantly inhibited by TMP. Moreover, TMP could prevent MPTP-increased TBARS level and MPTP-decreased GSH level, indicating the antioxidant role of TMP in PD model. And the antioxidant role of TMP attributes to the prevention of MPTP-induced reduction of Nrf2 and GCLc expression. In conclusion, in MPTP-induced PD model, TMP prevents the down-regulation of Nrf2 and GCLc, maintaining redox balance and inhibiting apoptosis, leading to the attenuation of dopaminergic neuron damage. The effectiveness of TMP in treating PD potentially leads to interesting therapeutic perspectives.
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- Chen Lu
- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 2. Department of Hand Surgery, 401 Military Hospital, Qingdao 266071, China
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- 3. Department of Pharmacy, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 4. Department of Pharmacy, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- 1. Institute of Materia, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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High-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus counteracts cortical expression of major histocompatibility complex genes in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91663. [PMID: 24621597 PMCID: PMC3951430 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2012] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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High-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-HFS) is widely used as therapeutic intervention in patients suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease. STN-HFS exerts a powerful modulatory effect on cortical motor control by orthodromic modulation of basal ganglia outflow and via antidromic activation of corticofugal fibers. However, STN-HFS-induced changes of the sensorimotor cortex are hitherto unexplored. To address this question at a genomic level, we performed mRNA expression analyses using Affymetrix microarray gene chips and real-time RT-PCR in sensorimotor cortex of parkinsonian and control rats following STN-HFS. Experimental parkinsonism was induced in Brown Norway rats by bilateral nigral injections of 6-hydroxydopamine and was assessed histologically, behaviorally, and electrophysiologically. We applied prolonged (23h) unilateral STN-HFS in awake and freely moving animals, with the non-stimulated hemisphere serving as an internal control for gene expression analyses. Gene enrichment analysis revealed strongest regulation in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) related genes. STN-HFS led to a cortical downregulation of several MHC class II (RT1-Da, Db1, Ba, and Cd74) and MHC class I (RT1CE) encoding genes. The same set of genes showed increased expression levels in a comparison addressing the effect of 6-hydroxydopamine lesioning. Hence, our data suggest the possible association of altered microglial activity and synaptic transmission by STN-HFS within the sensorimotor cortex of 6-hydroxydopamine treated rats.
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Silibinin pretreatment attenuates biochemical and behavioral changes induced by intrastriatal MPP+ injection in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2014; 117:92-103. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2013.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2012] [Revised: 10/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Yadav AP, Fuentes R, Zhang H, Vinholo T, Wang CH, Freire MAM, Nicolelis MAL. Chronic spinal cord electrical stimulation protects against 6-hydroxydopamine lesions. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3839. [PMID: 24452435 PMCID: PMC3899601 DOI: 10.1038/srep03839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Although L-dopa continues to be the gold standard for treating motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), it presents long-term complications. Deep brain stimulation is effective, but only a small percentage of idiopathic PD patients are eligible. Based on results in animal models and a handful of patients, dorsal column stimulation (DCS) has been proposed as a potential therapy for PD. To date, the long-term effects of DCS in animal models have not been quantified. Here, we report that DCS applied twice a week in rats treated with bilateral 6-OHDA striatal infusions led to a significant improvement in symptoms. DCS-treated rats exhibited a higher density of dopaminergic innervation in the striatum and higher neuronal cell count in the substantia nigra pars compacta compared to a control group. These results suggest that DCS has a chronic therapeutical and neuroprotective effect, increasing its potential as a new clinical option for treating PD patients.
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- Amol P Yadav
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27780
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal, Brazil, 59066-060
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710
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- 1] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27780 [2] Edmond and Lily Safra Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal, Brazil, 59066-060 [3] Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710 [4] Duke Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710 [5] Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708
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Grieb B, von Nicolai C, Engler G, Sharott A, Papageorgiou I, Hamel W, Engel AK, Moll CK. Decomposition of abnormal free locomotor behavior in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. Front Syst Neurosci 2013; 7:95. [PMID: 24348346 PMCID: PMC3842038 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Poverty of spontaneous movement, slowed execution and reduced amplitudes of movement (akinesia, brady- and hypokinesia) are cardinal motor manifestations of Parkinson's disease that can be modeled in experimental animals by brain lesions affecting midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Most behavioral investigations in experimental parkinsonism have employed short-term observation windows to assess motor impairments. We postulated that an analysis of longer-term free exploratory behavior could provide further insights into the complex fine structure of altered locomotor activity in parkinsonian animals. To this end, we video-monitored 23 h of free locomotor behavior and extracted several behavioral measures before and after the expression of a severe parkinsonian phenotype following bilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions of the rat dopaminergic substantia nigra. Unbiased stereological cell counting verified the degree of midbrain tyrosine hydroxylase positive cell loss in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area. In line with previous reports, overall covered distance and maximal motion speed of lesioned animals were found to be significantly reduced compared to controls. Before lesion surgery, exploratory rat behavior exhibited a bimodal distribution of maximal speed values obtained for single movement episodes, corresponding to a "first" and "second gear" of motion. 6-OHDA injections significantly reduced the incidence of second gear motion episodes and also resulted in an abnormal prolongation of these fast motion events. Likewise, the spatial spread of such episodes was increased in 6-OHDA rats. The increase in curvature of motion tracks was increased in both lesioned and control animals. We conclude that the discrimination of distinct modes of motion by statistical decomposition of longer-term spontaneous locomotion provides useful insights into the fine structure of fluctuating motor functions in a rat analog of Parkinson's disease.
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- Benjamin Grieb
- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany ; Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany ; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany ; Medical Research Council, Anatomical Neuropharacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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- Division of General Neurophysiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
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Campos FL, Carvalho MM, Cristovão AC, Je G, Baltazar G, Salgado AJ, Kim YS, Sousa N. Rodent models of Parkinson's disease: beyond the motor symptomatology. Front Behav Neurosci 2013; 7:175. [PMID: 24324416 PMCID: PMC3840800 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 11/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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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 associated alterations in mood (depression and anxiety) and cognition. Here, particularly in regards to NMS, we aimed to compare the motor, emotional and cognitive behavior of three animal models of PD that trigger dopaminergic (DAergic) degeneration on both brain hemispheres: (i) the 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA, 8 or 6 μg) lesion model; (ii) the paraquat (PQ) induced model, and (iii) a genetic model based on α-synuclein overexpression (α-syn). 6-OHDA and α-syn vector were injected bilaterally in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of adult male Wistar rats; as for PQ delivery, micro-osmotic pumps were implanted in the interscapular region. Motor deficits were observed in all models, with histological analysis of tyrosine hydroxylase positive cells in the SNpc revealing a significant loss of DAergic neurons in all animal models. In addition, the α-syn animal model also presented a reduction in exploratory activity, and the 6-OHDA and PQ animals displayed a significant increase in both depressive- and anxiety-like behavior. Interestingly, cognitive impairment (working memory) was only observed in the 6-OHDA model. Overall, these PD models are suitable for mimicking the motor symptoms associated to PD, with each encompassing other relevant NMS components of the disorder that may prove beneficial for further studies in PD.
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- Filipa L Campos
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; ICVS/3B's, PT Government Associate Laboratory Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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Neuroprotective effects of madecassoside in early stage of Parkinson's disease induced by MPTP in rats. Fitoterapia 2013; 90:112-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2013.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Santos JR, Cunha JA, Dierschnabel AL, Campêlo CL, Leão AH, Silva AF, Engelberth RC, Izídio GS, Cavalcante JS, Abílio VC, Ribeiro AM, Silva RH. Cognitive, motor and tyrosine hydroxylase temporal impairment in a model of parkinsonism induced by reserpine. Behav Brain Res 2013; 253:68-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.06.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Revised: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Teixeira MDA, Souza CM, Menezes APF, Carmo MRS, Fonteles AA, Gurgel JP, Lima FAV, Viana GSB, Andrade GM. Catechin attenuates behavioral neurotoxicity induced by 6-OHDA in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2013; 110:1-7. [PMID: 23714698 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2013.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2013] [Revised: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This study was designed to investigate the beneficial effect of catechin in a model of Parkinson's disease. Unilateral, intrastriatal 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-lesioned rats were pretreated with catechin (10 and 30 mg/kg) by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection 2h before surgery and for 14 days afterwards. After treatments, apomorphine-induced rotations, locomotor activity, working memory and early and late aversive memories were evaluated. The mesencephalon was used to determine the levels of monoamines and measurement of glutathione (GSH). Immunohistochemical staining was also used to evaluate the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in mesencephalic and striatal tissues. Catechin administration attenuated the increase in rotational behavior and the decrease in locomotor activity observed in lesioned rats. Although catechin did not rescue the impairment of late aversive memory, it protected the animals against 6-OHDA-induced working memory deficits. Furthermore, catechin treatment restored GSH levels, and significantly increased dopamine and DOPAC content, and TH-immunoreactivity in 6-OHDA-lesioned rats. Catechin protected 6-OHDA-lesioned rats due to its antioxidant action, indicating that it could be useful as an adjunctive therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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- M D A Teixeira
- Laboratory of Neurosciences and Behavior, Federal University of Ceará, Rua Cel. Nunes de Melo, 1127, Fortaleza 60430270, Brazil
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Carvalho MM, Campos FL, Coimbra B, Pêgo JM, Rodrigues C, Lima R, Rodrigues AJ, Sousa N, Salgado AJ. Behavioral characterization of the 6-hydroxidopamine model of Parkinson's disease and pharmacological rescuing of non-motor deficits. Mol Neurodegener 2013; 8:14. [PMID: 23621954 PMCID: PMC3653696 DOI: 10.1186/1750-1326-8-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2013] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative condition that is characterized by motor symptoms as a result of dopaminergic degeneration, particularly in the mesostriatal pathway. However, in recent years, a greater number of clinical studies have focused on the emergence of non-motor symptoms in PD patients, as a consequence of damage on the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopaminergic networks, and on their significant impact on the quality of life of PD patients. Herein, we performed a thorough behavioral analysis including motor, emotional and cognitive dimensions, of the unilateral medial forebrain bundle (MFB) 6-hydroxidopamine (6-OHDA)-lesioned model of PD, and further addressed the impact of pharmacological interventions with levodopa and antidepressants on mood dimensions. RESULTS Based on apomorphine-induced turning behaviour and degree of dopaminergic degeneration, animals submitted to MFB lesions were subdivided in complete and incomplete lesion groups. Importantly, this division also translated into a different severity of motor and exploratory impairments and depressive-like symptoms; in contrast, no deficits in anxiety-like and cognitive behaviors were found in MFB-lesioned animals. Subsequently, we found that the exploratory and the anhedonic behavioural alterations of MFB-lesioned rats can be partially improved with the administration of both levodopa or the antidepressant bupropion, but not paroxetine. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that this model is a relevant tool to study the pathophysiology of motor and non-motor symptoms of PD. In addition, the present data shows that pharmacological interventions modulating dopaminergic transmission are also relevant to revert the non-motor behavioral deficits found in the disease.
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- Miguel M Carvalho
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - José M Pêgo
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - Carla Rodrigues
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - Rui Lima
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - Ana J Rodrigues
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - Nuno Sousa
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
| | - António J Salgado
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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