Levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease

AHV Schapira, M Emre, P Jenner… - European Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The predominant motor features of Parkinson's disease (PD) are caused by degeneration of
dopaminergic neurones and can be reversed in part or whole by dopamine replacement or …

Present and future drug treatment for Parkinson's disease

AHV Schapira - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2005 - jnnp.bmj.com
Considerable advances made in defining the aetiology, pathogenesis, and pathology of
Parkinson's disease (PD) have resulted in the development and rapid expansion of the …

A molecular calcium integrator reveals a striatal cell type driving aversion

CK Kim, MI Sanchez, P Hoerbelt, LE Fenno… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The ability to record transient cellular events in the DNA or RNA of cells would enable
precise, large-scale analysis, selection, and reprogramming of heterogeneous cell …

Alterations of myelin content in Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional neuroimaging study

DC Dean III, J Sojkova, S Hurley, S Kecskemeti… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Alterations to myelin may be a core pathological feature of neurodegenerative diseases.
Although white matter microstructural differences have been described in Parkinson's …

l‐DOPA‐induced dyskinesia and neuroinflammation: do microglia and astrocytes play a role?

AR Carta, G Mulas, M Bortolanza… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In Parkinson's disease (PD), l‐DOPA therapy leads to the emergence of motor complications
including l‐DOPA‐induced dyskinesia (LID). LID relies on a sequence of pre‐and …

Targeting midkine and pleiotrophin signalling pathways in addiction and neurodegenerative disorders: recent progress and perspectives

G Herradón, C Pérez‐García - British journal of pharmacology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Midkine (MK) and pleiotrophin (PTN) are two neurotrophic factors that are highly up‐
regulated in different brain regions after the administration of various drugs of abuse and in …

Task specific influences of Parkinson's disease on the striato-thalamo-cortical and cerebello-thalamo-cortical motor circuitries

MM Lewis, CG Slagle, AB Smith, Y Truong, P Bai… - Neuroscience, 2007 - Elsevier
The motor deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been primarily associated with internally
guided (IG), but not externally guided (EG), tasks. This study investigated the functional …

Pleiotrophin as a central nervous system neuromodulator, evidences from the hippocampus

C González-Castillo, D Ortuño-Sahagún… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Pleiotrophin (PTN) is a secreted growth factor, and also a cytokine, associated with the
extracellular matrix, which has recently starting to attract attention as a significant …

Neuroinflammation in l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia: beyond the immune function

A Pisanu, L Boi, G Mulas, S Spiga, S Fenu… - Journal of Neural …, 2018 - Springer
Neuroinflammation is a main component of Parkinson's disease (PD) neuropathology,
where unremitting reactive microglia and microglia-secreted soluble molecules such as …

Comparing RNA‐sequencing datasets from astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia in multiple sclerosis identifies novel dysregulated genes relevant to …

SS Drake, A Zaman, T Simas… - WIREs Mechanisms of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Central nervous system (CNS) inflammation is a key factor in multiple sclerosis (MS).
Invasion of peripheral immune cells into the CNS resulting from an unknown signal or …