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Article: Does neurotrophic factor benefit to PD therapy via co-function with ubiquitin-proteasome system?
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ABSTRACT: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common progressive neurodegenerative disorder whose core symptoms are tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability. Currently available treatment of PD is mainly based on dopamine replacement strategy to provide relief of motor symptoms, but cannot halt or reverse the degenerative processes of disease. Considerable in vitro and in vivo studies have found that neurotrophic factor (NTF) has neuroprotective or even neurorestorative properties on dopaminergic (DA) system, promoting them become promising candidates for the treatment of PD. However, the precise mechanism of NTF's effect in PD remains to be elucidated. Though the etiopathogenesis of PD has remained elusive, recently, compelling evidence has converged to suggest that failure of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) to degrade unwanted proteins may underlie nigralstrital degeneration and Lewy body (LB) formation which occurs in PD. In support of this, proteasome inhibitor has been successfully induced a PD modal both in vivo and in vitro. Many NTFs have been proved to possess definitely a therapy effect in a PD animal modal. Whether NTF can co-function with UPS that accomplishes the aim to protect and reserve dopaminergic neurons' function from neurotoxicity injury induced by proteasome inhibitor? If this hypothesis could be confirmed, it will represent a valuable advancement in the study of PD. Moreover, investigation of the functional link between UPS and NTF should also provide useful information for understanding the pathogenesis of PD.Medical Hypotheses 01/2011; 76(4):589-92. · 1.39 Impact Factor -
Article: Nigral degeneration with inclusion body formation and behavioral changes in rats after proteasomal inhibition.
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ABSTRACT: We were interested in studying nigral degeneration with inclusion body formation and behavioral changes in rats after proteasomal inhibition. Observation of progressive behavioral and pathological changes in rats following a unilateral nigral injection of lactacystin, a selective proteasome inhibitor. After administration at a concentration of 10 microg (2 microl) of lactacystin, when tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunostaining decreased gradually in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and corpus striatum, alpha-synuclein-immunopositive inclusion appeared extensively in the surviving neurons. We also observed the degeneration of diverse cellular organelles by transmission electron microscopy. The effect of cellular organelle degeneration on behavior, a clinical index, was striking and was statistically significant. Over the 3 weeks following the administration of lactacystin, a highly significant decrease in TH immunostaining was observed and alpha-synuclein-immunopositive inclusions gradually appeared. Interestingly, there was a strong correlation in behavioral changes and the increase in alpha-synuclein-immunopositive inclusions whereas the decrease in TH immunostaining did not seem to induce any behavioral changes. Our results reveal that unilateral nigral proteasome inhibition induces degeneration in the SNc and corpus striatum as well as behavioral changes demonstrating strong time dependence. Behavioral changes were driven by the formation of alpha-synuclein inclusions, but not by decreased TH neurons.Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 03/2009; 87(2):69-81. · 1.85 Impact Factor
