Selective neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson disease

DJ Surmeier, JA Obeso, GM Halliday - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Intracellular α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich protein aggregates called Lewy pathology (LP) and
neuronal death are commonly found in the brains of patients with clinical Parkinson disease …

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 …

Small molecule-driven NLRP3 inflammation inhibition via interplay between ubiquitination and autophagy: implications for Parkinson disease

X Han, S Sun, Y Sun, Q Song, J Zhu, N Song, M Chen… - Autophagy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Aging-related, nonresolving inflammation in both the central nervous system (CNS) and
periphery predisposes individuals to the development of neurodegenerative disorders …

Disentangling neural cell diversity using single-cell transcriptomics

JF Poulin, B Tasic, J Hjerling-Leffler, JM Trimarchi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cellular specialization is particularly prominent in mammalian nervous systems, which are
composed of millions to billions of neurons that appear in thousands of different'flavors' and …

Dopamine secretion is mediated by sparse active zone-like release sites

C Liu, L Kershberg, J Wang, S Schneeberger… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Dopamine controls essential brain functions through volume transmission. Different from fast
synaptic transmission, where neurotransmitter release and receptor activation are tightly …

Dopamine induces soluble α-synuclein oligomers and nigrostriatal degeneration

DE Mor, E Tsika, JR Mazzulli, NS Gould, H Kim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is defined by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia
nigra and the formation of Lewy body inclusions containing aggregated α-synuclein. Efforts …

Cell senescence induced by toxic interaction between α-synuclein and iron precedes nigral dopaminergic neuron loss in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

Q Shen, X Jv, X Ma, C Li, L Liu, W Jia, L Qu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell senescence has been implicated in the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD). Both
abnormal α-synuclein aggregation and iron deposition are suggested to be the triggers …

Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes

O Garritsen, EY van Battum, LM Grossouw… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The midbrain dopamine (mDA) system is composed of molecularly and functionally distinct
neuron subtypes that mediate specific behaviours and are linked to various brain diseases …

Dopamine metabolism by a monoamine oxidase mitochondrial shuttle activates the electron transport chain

SM Graves, Z Xie, KA Stout, E Zampese… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Monoamine oxidase (MAO) metabolizes cytosolic dopamine (DA), thereby limiting auto-
oxidation, but is also thought to generate cytosolic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). We show that …

The recurrent architecture of tumour initiation, progression and drug sensitivity

A Califano, MJ Alvarez - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Recent studies across multiple tumour types are starting to reveal a recurrent regulatory
architecture in which genomic alterations cluster upstream of functional master regulator …