Parkinson's disease: Mechanisms, translational models and management strategies

C Raza, R Anjum - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. The classical motor
symptoms include resting tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability and are …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease: animal models and dopaminergic cell vulnerability

J Blesa, S Przedborski - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 1.5% of the
global population over 65 years of age. A hallmark feature of PD is the degeneration of the …

Parkinson disease: from pathology to molecular disease mechanisms

DT Dexter, P Jenner - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Parkinson disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with both motor and
nonmotor symptoms owing to a spreading process of neuronal loss in the brain. At present …

Animal models of α-synucleinopathy for Parkinson disease drug development

JB Koprich, LV Kalia, JM Brotchie - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
A major challenge in Parkinson disease (PD) will be to turn an emerging and expanding
pipeline of novel disease-modifying candidate compounds into therapeutics. Novel targets …

Animal models of Parkinson's disease

EA Konnova, M Swanberg - Exon Publications, 2018 - exonpublications.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a heterogenous disease with a varying age of onset, symptoms,
and rate of progression. This heterogeneity requires the use of a variety of animal models to …

Neuroinflammation and oxidative stress: co-conspirators in the pathology of Parkinson's disease

JM Taylor, BS Main, PJ Crack - Neurochemistry international, 2013 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex disease, with genetics and environment contributing
to the disease onset. Recent studies of causative PD genes have confirmed the involvement …

Evaluation of models of Parkinson's disease

SA Jagmag, N Tripathi, SD Shukla, S Maiti… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. Animal
models have contributed a large part to our understanding and therapeutics developed for …

Molecular determinants of selective dopaminergic vulnerability in Parkinson's disease: an update

L Brichta, P Greengard - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Numerous disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) are attributed to the selective
death of distinct neuronal cell populations. Interestingly, in many of these conditions, a …

Mitochondrial dysfunction underlies cognitive defects as a result of neural stem cell depletion and impaired neurogenesis

M Khacho, A Clark, DS Svoboda… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common feature of many genetic disorders that target the
brain and cognition. However, the exact role these organelles play in the etiology of such …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic characterization of recessive gene knockout rat models of Parkinson's disease

KD Dave, S De Silva, NP Sheth, S Ramboz… - Neurobiology of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recessively inherited loss-of-function mutations in the PTEN-induced putative kinase 1
(Pink1), DJ-1 (Park7) and Parkin (Park2) genes are linked to familial cases of early-onset …