[HTML][HTML] Glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in Parkinson's disease: The role of glial cells

L Iovino, ME Tremblay, L Civiero - Journal of pharmacological sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Glutamate
transmission efficiency depends on the correct functionality and expression of a plethora of …

Classification of midbrain dopamine neurons using single-cell gene expression profiling approaches

JF Poulin, Z Gaertner, OA Moreno-Ramos… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Dysfunctional dopamine (DA) signaling has been associated with a broad spectrum of
neuropsychiatric disorders, prompting investigations into how midbrain DA neuron …

VTA glutamate neuron activity drives positive reinforcement absent dopamine co-release

V Zell, T Steinkellner, NG Hollon, SM Warlow, E Souter… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Like ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine (DA) neurons, VTA glutamate neuron activity
can support positive reinforcement. However, a subset of VTA neurons co-release DA and …

Relevance of interactions between dopamine and glutamate neurotransmission in schizophrenia

SA Buck, M Quincy Erickson-Oberg, RW Logan… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) and glutamate neurotransmission are strongly implicated in schizophrenia
pathophysiology. While most studies focus on contributions of neurons that release only DA …

Parkinson's disease-associated, sex-specific changes in DNA methylation at PARK7 (DJ-1), SLC17A6 (VGLUT2), PTPRN2 (IA-2β), and NR4A2 (NURR1) in cortical …

J Kochmanski, NC Kuhn, AI Bernstein - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Evidence for epigenetic regulation playing a role in Parkinson's disease (PD) is growing,
particularly for DNA methylation. Approximately 90% of PD cases are due to a complex …

[HTML][HTML] Reproducible generation of human midbrain organoids for in vitro modeling of Parkinson's disease

SL Nickels, J Modamio, B Mendes-Pinheiro… - Stem Cell Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of human midbrain development and midbrain related diseases, like Parkinson's
disease (PD), is limited by deficiencies in the currently available and validated laboratory …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular heterogeneity in the substantia nigra: A roadmap for understanding PD motor pathophysiology

Z Gaertner, M Azcorra, DA Dombeck… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the ability to capture single-cell expression profiles has grown in recent years,
neuroscientists studying a wide gamut of brain regions have discovered remarkable …

Sox6 expression distinguishes dorsally and ventrally biased dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra with distinctive properties and embryonic origins

MP Luppi, M Azcorra, G Caronia-Brown, JF Poulin… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Dopamine (DA) neurons in the ventral tier of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc)
degenerate prominently in Parkinson's disease, while those in the dorsal tier are relatively …

Dopamine neurons that cotransmit glutamate, from synapses to circuits to behavior

D Eskenazi, L Malave, S Mingote, L Yetnikoff… - Frontiers in neural …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Discovered just over 20 years ago, dopamine neurons have the ability to cotransmit both
dopamine and glutamate. Yet, the functional roles of dopamine neuron glutamate …

Roles of dopamine and glutamate co‐release in the nucleus accumbens in mediating the actions of drugs of abuse

SA Buck, MM Torregrossa, RW Logan… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Projections of ventral tegmental area dopamine (DA) neurons to the medial shell of the
nucleus accumbens have been increasingly implicated as integral to the behavioral and …